Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Trending quotes (page 8)

“The grave itself is but a covered bridge,
Leading from light to light, through a brief darkness!”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Golden Legend, Pt. V, A Covered Bridge at Lucerne.

Light

“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.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A Psalm of Life

St. 1.
A Psalm of Life (1839)

Life , Dreams , Soul , Dead

“In the long, sleepless watches of the night,
A gentle face — the face of one long dead —
Looks at me from the wall, where round its head
The night-lamp casts a halo of pale light.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Cross of Snow http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/longfellow/19251 (1879).

Light , Night , Dead

“Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie

Part II, section 1.
Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie (1847)

Strong , Silence

“The prayer of Ajax was for light.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Light

“Stars of the summer night!
Far in yon azure deeps,
Hide, hide your golden light!
She sleeps!
My lady sleeps!”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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

Star , Sleep , Light , Summer

“I hear in the chamber above me
The patter of little feet,
The sound of a door that is opened,
And voices soft and sweet.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Children's Hour

The Children's Hour, St. 2.

“Between the dark and the daylight,
When the night is beginning to lower,
Comes a pause in the day's occupation,
That is known as the Children's Hour.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Children's Hour http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/longfellow/19249, St. 1 (1860).

Children , Night

“There is no flock, however watched and tended,
But one dead lamb is there!
There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended,
But has one vacant chair!”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Resignation

Resignation, st. 1 (1849).

Dead

“Hold the fleet angel fast until he bless thee.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow book Kavanagh

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

Angels

“From the water-fall he named her,
Minnehaha, Laughing Water.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow book The Song of Hiawatha

Pt. IV, Hiawatha and Mudjekeewis, st. 33.
The Song of Hiawatha (1855)

Water

“The holiest of all holidays are those
Kept by ourselves in silence and apart;
The secret anniversaries of the heart,
When the full river of feeling overflows.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Holidays http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/longfellow/19219 (1878).

Secret , Feeling , Silence , Holiday

“He speaketh not; and yet there lies
A conversation in his eyes.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Hanging of the Crane.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Beauty

“Build on, and make thy castles high and fair,
Rising and reaching upward to the skies;
Listen to voices in the upper air,
Nor lose thy simple faith in mysteries.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Castle-builder.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

Faith

“I stood on the bridge at midnight,
As the clocks were striking the hour,
And the moon rose o'er the city,
Behind the dark church-tower.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Bridge

The Bridge, st. 1 (1845).

“By the shores of Gitche Gumee,
By the shining Big-Sea-Water,
Stood the wigwam of Nokomis,
Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow book The Song of Hiawatha

Pt. III, Hiawatha’s Childhood, st. 8.
The Song of Hiawatha (1855)

Water , Daughters , Sea

“When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie

Part I, section 1.
Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie (1847)

Music

“His brow is wet with honest sweat,
He earns whate'er he can,
And looks the whole world in the face,
For he owes not any man.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Village Blacksmith

St. 2.
The Village Blacksmith (1842)

World

“Oh the long and dreary Winter!
Oh the cold and cruel Winter!”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow book The Song of Hiawatha

Pt. XX.
The Song of Hiawatha (1855)

Winter

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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Maidenhood http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/longfellow/12212, st. 9 (1842).

Life