Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Trending quotes (page 5)

“God had sifted three kingdoms to find the wheat for this planting.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Courtship of Miles Standish

Part IV.
The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858)

God

“All things come round to him who will but wait.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Tales of a Wayside Inn

Pt. I, The Student's Tale.
Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863-1874)

Waiting

“I heard the trailing garments of the Night
Sweep through her marble halls!
I saw her sable skirts all fringed with light
From the celestial walls!”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Hymn to the Night, st. 1 (1839).

Light , Night

“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.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Light of Stars

The Light of Stars, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

World , Fear , Strong , Suffering

“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!”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Goblet of Life, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

Lie , Sadness , Affliction , Suffering

“Under a spreading chestnut-tree
The village smithy stands;
The smith, a mighty man is he,
With large and sinewy hands;
And the muscles of his brawny arms
Are strong as iron bands.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Village Blacksmith

St. 1.
The Village Blacksmith (1842)

Tree , Strong

“The trees are white with dust, that o'er their sleep
Wave their broad curtains in the south-wind's breath,
While underneath such leafy tents they keep
The long, mysterious Exodus of Death.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Jewish Cemetery at Newport, st. 2 (1858).

Death , Sleep , Tree

“This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks,
Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight,
Stand like Druids of eld, with voices sad and prophetic,
Stand like harpers hoar, with beards that rest on their bosoms.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie

Prelude.
Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie (1847)

Sadness

“But as he warmed and glowed, in his simple and eloquent language,
Quite forgetful of self, and full of the praise of his rival,
Archly the maiden smiled, and, with eyes over-running with laughter,
Said, in a tremulous voice, "Why don't you speak for yourself, John?"”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Courtship of Miles Standish

Pt. III, The Lover's Errand.
The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858)

Smile , Laughter , Forgetting

“There is no greater sorrow
Than to be mindful of the happy time
In misery.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Inferno, canto v, line 121.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Time , Happiness

“Don Quixote thought he could have made beautiful bird-cages and toothpicks if his brain had not been so full of ideas of chivalry. Most people would succeed in small things, if they were not troubled with great ambitions.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Table-Talk (1857)

People , Beauty , Idea , Bird

“Who ne'er his bread in sorrow ate,
Who ne'er the mournful midnight hours
Weeping upon his bed has sate,
He knows you not, ye Heavenly Powers.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow book Hyperion

Motto, Hyperion, book i.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Hermes:
Much must he toil who serves the Immortal Gods.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Masque of Pandora and Other Poems (1875)

God

“The air is full of farewells to the dying,
And mournings for the dead.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Resignation

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Resignation

Dead

“She floats upon the river of his thoughts.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Spanish Student http://www.readbookonline.net/title/3208/, Act II, sc. iii (1843).

“It is the fate of a woman
Long to be patient and silent, to wait like a ghost that is speechless,
Till some questioning voice dissolves the spell of its silence.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Courtship of Miles Standish

Part VI.
The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858)

Fate , Question , Silence , Waiting

“The scholar and the world! The endless strife,
The discord in the harmonies of life!
The love of learning, the sequestered nooks,
And all the sweet serenity of books;
The market-place, the eager love of gain,
Whose aim is vanity, and whose end is pain!”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

St. 23.
Morituri Salutamus http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/longfellow/19229 (1875)

Love , Life , Pain , Books

“Footprints, that perhaps another,
Travelling o'er life's solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A Psalm of Life

St. 8.
A Psalm of Life (1839)

Life , Travel , Heart

“If the great Captain of Plymouth is so very eager to wed me,
Why does he not come himself, and take the trouble to woo me?
If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning!”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Courtship of Miles Standish

Pt. III, The Lover's Errand.
The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858)

Wedding

“Three Silences there are: the first of speech,
The second of desire, the third of thought;
This is the lore a Spanish monk, distraught
With dreams and visions, was the first to teach.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Three Silences of Molinos http://www.readbookonline.net/read/3051/12504/ (1878).

Dreams , Silence