Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Trending quotes (page 7)

“Chorus of the Eumenides: …
With useless endeavour
Forever, forever,
Is Sisyphus rolling
His stone up the mountain!”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Masque of Pandora and Other Poems (1875)

Mountain

“Books are sepulchres of thought.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Wind over the Chimney, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

Books

“And yet, through the gloom and the light,
The fate of a nation was riding that night.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Tales of a Wayside Inn

Pt. I, The Landlord's Tale: Paul Revere's Ride, st. 8.
Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863-1874)

Fate , Light , Night

“Thy fate is the common fate of all;
Into each life some rain must fall,
Some days must be dark and dreary.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Rainy Day

"The Rainy Day", Bentley's Miscellany ( December 1841 http://books.google.com/books?id=pW8AAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Thy+fate+is+the+common+fate+of+all+Into+each+life+some+rain+must+fall+some+days+must+be+dark+and+dreary%22&pg=PA626#v=onepage).

Life , Fate

“Thus, seamed with many scars
Bursting these prison bars,
Up to its native stars
My soul ascended!
There from the flowing bowl
Deep drinks the warrior's soul,
Skoal! to the Northland! skoal!
—Thus the tale ended.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Skeleton in Armor, st. 20 (1841).

Soul , Star , Drink

“And now, my classmates; ye remaining few
That number not the half of those we knew,
Ye, against whose familiar names not yet
The fatal asterisk of death is set,
Ye I salute!”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

St. 13.
Morituri Salutamus http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/longfellow/19229 (1875)

Death

“Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution,
She lives whom we call dead.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Resignation

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

Dead

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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Maidenhood http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/longfellow/12212, st. 3 (1842).

Childhood

“We often excuse our own want of philanthropy by giving the name of fanaticism to the more ardent zeal of others.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Table-Talk (1857)

“Thus departed Hiawatha,
Hiawatha the Beloved,
In the glory of the sunset,
In the purple mists of evening,
To the regions of the home-wind,
Of the Northwest-Wind, Keewaydin,
To the Islands of the Blessed,
To the Kingdom of Ponemah,
To the Land of the Hereafter!”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow book The Song of Hiawatha

Pt. XXII, Hiawatha's Departure, st. 29.
The Song of Hiawatha (1855)

Home

“And as she looked around, she saw how Death the consoler,
Laying his hand upon many a heart, had healed it forever.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie

Part II, section 5.
Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie (1847)

Death , Heart

“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.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A Psalm of Life

St. 2.
A Psalm of Life (1839)

Life , Art , Soul

“Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee,
Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears,
Our faith triumphant o'er our fears,
Are all with thee,—are all with thee!”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Building of the Ship

Source: The Building of the Ship (1849), Lines 396-399.

Fear , Faith , Hope , Tear

“Sail forth into the sea of life,
O gentle, loving, trusting wife,
And safe from all adversity
Upon the bosom of that sea
Thy comings and thy goings be!
For gentleness and love and trust
Prevail o'er angry wave and gust;
And in the wreck of noble lives
Something immortal still survives.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Building of the Ship

Source: The Building of the Ship (1849), Line 368.

Love , Life , Sea

“I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and short-comings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self-assertion of youth.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Table-Talk (1857)

Books , Youth , Fear , Hope

“God sent his Singers upon earth
With songs of sadness and of mirth,
That they might touch the hearts of men,
And bring them back to heaven again.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Singers

The Singers, st. 1 (1849).

Men , God , Sadness , Heart

“But the great Master said, "I see
No best in kind, but in degree;
I gave a various gift to each,
To charm, to strengthen, and to teach.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Singers

The Singers, st. 6.

“O holy trust! O endless sense of rest!
Like the beloved John
To lay his head upon the Saviour's breast,
And thus to journey on!”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow book The Seaside and the Fireside

"Hymn, For my Brother's Ordination", The Seaside and the Fireside (1850).

Sense

“Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work, rather than its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as the bad heart of Procrustes turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Table-Talk (1857)

Men , Beauty , Passion , Heart

“Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State!
Sail on, O Union, strong and great!
Humanity with all its fears,
With all the hopes of future years,
Is hanging breathless on thy fate!”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Building of the Ship

Source: The Building of the Ship (1849), Lines 378-382.

Fate , Fear , Hope , Strong