HWHenry W. Longfellow

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Henry W. Longfellow

Life dates: 1807 AD — 1882 AD

Listed in the author section of Bartlett’s ninth-edition anthology, in the linked 1905 printing. Dates reflect that historical edition and may differ from modern scholarship.

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Quotations and sayings

01c. 1844 AD

Look, then, into thine heart, and write!

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02c. 1844 AD

Tell me not, in mournful numbers, "Life is but an empty dream!" For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem.

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03c. 1844 AD

Life is real! life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul.

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04c. 1844 AD

Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still like muffled drums are beating Funeral marches to the grave.

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05c. 1844 AD

Trust no future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead! Act, act in the living present! Heart within, and God o'erhead!

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06c. 1844 AD

Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time.

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07c. 1844 AD

Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait.

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08c. 1844 AD

There is a reaper whose name is Death, And with his sickle keen He reaps the bearded grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between.

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09c. 1844 AD

The star of the unconquered will.

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10c. 1844 AD

Oh, fear not in a world like this, And thou shalt know erelong,— Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong.

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11c. 1844 AD

Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine, When he called the flowers, so blue and golden, Stars, that in earth's firmament do shine.

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12c. 1844 AD

The hooded clouds, like friars, Tell their beads in drops of rain.

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13c. 1844 AD

No tears Dim the sweet look that Nature wears.

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14c. 1844 AD

No one is so accursed by fate, No one so utterly desolate, But some heart, though unknown, Responds unto his own.

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15c. 1844 AD

For Time will teach thee soon the truth, There are no birds in last year's nest!

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16c. 1844 AD

Into each life some rain must fall, Some days must be dark and dreary.

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17c. 1844 AD

The prayer of Ajax was for light.

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18c. 1844 AD

O suffering, sad humanity! O ye afflicted ones, who lie Steeped to the lips in misery, Longing, yet afraid to die, Patient, though sorely tried!

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19c. 1844 AD

Standing with reluctant feet Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet!

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20c. 1844 AD

O thou child of many prayers! Life hath quicksands; life hath snares!

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21c. 1844 AD

She floats upon the river of his thoughts.

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22c. 1844 AD

A banner with the strange device.

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23c. 1844 AD

This is the place. Stand still, my steed,— Let me review the scene, And summon from the shadowy past The forms that once have been.

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24c. 1844 AD

The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight.

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