| 237 Famous Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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“For 'tis sweet to stammer one letter
Of the Eternal's language;--on earth it is called Forgiveness!”
Forgiveness Quotes Source: The Children of the Lord's Supper (l. 214)
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“The pen became a clarion.”
Pen Quotes Source: Monte Cassino (st. 13)
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“The song on its mighty pinions
Took every living soul, and lifted it gently to heaven.”
Songs Quotes Source: Children of the Lord's Supper (l. 44)
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“Such songs have power to quiet
The restless pulse of care,
And come like the benediction
That follows after prayer.”
Songs Quotes Source: The Day is Done (st. 9)
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“Listen to that song, and learn it!
Half my kingdom would I give,
As I live,
If by such songs you would earn it.”
Songs Quotes Source: Tales of a Wayside Inn (pt. I, The Musician's Tale, The Saga of King Olaf, pt. V)
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“Saint Augustine! well hast thou said,
That of our vices we can frame
A ladder, if we will but tread
Beneath our feet each deed of shame.”
Vice Quotes Source: The Ladder of St. Augustine (st. 1)
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“The world loves a spice of wickedness.”
Wickedness Quotes Source: Hyperion (ch. VII, bk. I)
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“That beautiful season
. . . the Summer of All-Saints!
Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the
landscape
Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood.”
Summer Quotes Source: Evangeline (pt. I, st. 2)
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“Very hot and still the air was,
Very smooth the gliding river,
Motionless the sleeping shadows.”
Summer Quotes Source: Hiawatha (pt. XVIII, l. 54)
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“O summer day beside the joyous sea!
O summer day so wonderful and white,
So full of gladness and so full of pain!
Forever and forever shalt thou be
To some the gravestone of a dead delight,
To some the landmark of a new domain.”
Summer Quotes Source: Summer Day by the Sea
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“I should think your tongue has broken its chain.”
Tongue Quotes Source: Christus--The Golden Legend (pt. IV)
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“Listen, every one
That listen may, unto a tale
That's merrier than the nightingale.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Tales of a Wayside Inn (pt. III,),”
Listening Quotes Source: Tales of a Wayside Inn (pt. III,), The Sicilian's Tale--Interlude Before the Monk of Casal-Maggiore
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“The swallow is come!
The swallow is come!
O, fair are the seasons, and light
Are the days that she brings,
With her dusky wings,
And her bosom snowy white!”
Swallows Quotes Source: Hyperion (bk. II, ch. I)
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“Do you ne'er think what wondrous beings these?
Do you ne'er think who made them, and who taught
The dialect they speak, where melodies
Alone are the interpreters of thought?
Whose household words are songs in many keys,
Sweeter than instrument of man e'er caught!
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,”
Birds Quotes Source: Tales of a Wayside Inn--The Poet's Tale--The Birds of Killingworth
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“In the thickets and the meadows
Piped the bluebird, the Owaissa.
On the summit of the lodges
Sang the robin, the Opechee.”
Bluebirds Quotes Source: Hiawatha (pt. XXI)
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“Then from the neighboring thicket the mockingbird, wildest of
singers,
Swinging aloft on a willow spray that hung o'er the water.
Shook from his little throat such floods of delirious music,
That the whole air and the woods and the waves seemed silent to
listen.”
Mockingbirds Quotes Source: Evangeline (pt. II, st. 2)
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“To the red rising moon, and loud and deep
The nightingale is singing from the steep.”
Nightingales Quotes Source: Keats
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“The song-birds leave us at the summer's close,
Only the empty nests are left behind,
And pipings of the quail among the sheaves.”
Quail Quotes Source: The Harvest Moon
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“The sparrows chirped as if they still were proud
Their race in Holy Writ should mentioned be.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow,”
Sparrows Quotes Source: Tales of a Wayside Inn--The Poet's Tale--The Birds of Killingworth (st. 2)
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“This is the forest primeval.”
Trees Quotes Source: Evangeline (introduction)
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“For thine own purpose, thou hast sent
The strife and the discouragement!”
Perseverance Quotes Source: Christus--The Golden Legend (pt. II)
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“'Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees
Filled all the air with fragrance and with joy.”
Easter Quotes Source: Spanish Student (act I, sc. 3)
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“Your supper is like the Hidalgo's dinner; very little meat, and a
great deal of tablecloth.”
Eating Quotes Source: Spanish Student (act I, sc. 4)
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“Hospitality sitting with gladness.”
Hospitality Quotes Source: Translation from Frithiof's Saga
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“The atmosphere
Breathes rest and comfort and the many chambers
Seem full of welcomes.”
Inns Quotes Source: Masque of Pandora (pt. V, l. 33)
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