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“There is no Death! What seems so is transition;
This life of mortal breath
Is but a suburb of the life elysian,
Whose portal we call Death.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Resignation

Resignation, st. 5.

“Read from some humbler poet,
Whose songs gushed from his heart,
As showers from the clouds of summer,
Or tears from the eyelids start.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

St. 7.
The Day is Done (1845)

“Stronger than steel is the sword of the Spirit;
Swifter than arrows, the light of the truth;
Greater than anger is love that subdueth.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Tales of a Wayside Inn

The Nun of Nidaros, st. 9.
Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863-1874)

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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Endymion, st. 8 (1842).

“And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Arrow and the Song

The Arrow and the Song, st. 3.

“Listen, my children, and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five;
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Tales of a Wayside Inn

Pt. I, The Landlord's Tale: Paul Revere's Ride, st. 1.
Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863-1874)

“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!”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A Psalm of Life

St. 6.
A Psalm of Life (1839)

“Were half the power that fills the world with terror,
Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts,
Given to redeem the human mind from error,
There were no need of arsenals and forts.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Arsenal at Springfield.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Nothing useless is, or low;
Each thing in its place is best;
And what seems but idle show
Strengthens and supports the rest.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Builders

The Builders, st. 2 (1849).

“The surest pledge of a deathless name
Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

“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.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

A Gleam of Sunshine, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Arrow and the Song

The Arrow and the Song, st. 1 (1845).

“Moons waxed and waned, the lilacs bloomed and died,
In the broad river ebbed and flowed the tide,
Ships went to sea, and ships came home from sea,
And the slow years sailed by and ceased to be.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

“Look, then, into thine heart, and write!”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Voices of the Night http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/lit/poetry/TheCompletePoeticalWorksofHenryWadsworthLongfellow/Chap1.html, Prelude, st. 19 (1839).

“The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, — the taste and stain from the lees of the vat.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Table-Talk (1857)

“Let him not boast who puts his armor on
As he who puts it off, the battle done.
Study yourselves; and most of all note well
Wherein kind Nature meant you to excel.
Not every blossom ripens into fruit.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

St. 11. <br class="br"> Morituri Salutamus http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/longfellow/19229 (1875)

“What land is this? Yon pretty town
Is Delft, with all its wares displayed:
The pride, the market-place, the crown
And centre of the Potter's trade.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Kéramos http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/lit/poetry/TheCompletePoeticalWorksofHenryWadsworthLongfellow/chap22.html, line 66; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 187.

“In the elder days of Art,
Builders wrought with greatest care
Each minute and unseen part;
For the gods see everywhere.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Builders

The Builders (1849).

“When we reflect that all the aspects of Nature, all the emotions of the soul, and all the events of life, have been the subjects of poetry for hundreds and thousands of years, we can hardly wonder that there should be so many resemblances and coincidences of expression among poets, but rather that they are not more numerous and more striking.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Table-Talk (1857)

“Into a world unknown,—the corner-stone of a nation.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Courtship of Miles Standish

Part V; referring to Plymouth Rock
The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858)