Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Trending quotes (page 9)

“St. Augustine! well hast thou said,
That of our vices we can frame
A ladder, if we will but tread
Beneath our feet each deed of shame!”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Ladder of St. Augustine, st. 1 (1858).

“The shades of night were falling fast,
As through an Alpine village passed
A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice,
A banner with the strange device,
Excelsior!”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Excelsior

Excelsior, st. 1 (1842).

Youth , Night

“Alike were they free from
Fear, that reigns with the tyrant, and envy, the vice of republics.
Neither locks had they to their doors, nor bars to their windows;
But their dwellings were open as day and the hearts of their owners;
There the richest was poor, and the poorest lived in abundance.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie

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

Fear , Heart , Envy

“He has singed the beard of the king of Spain.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Dutch Picture, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

Singing

“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), Lines 375-376.

“One, if by land, and two, if by sea;
And I on the opposite shore will be,
Ready to ride and spread the alarm
Through every Middlesex village and farm
For the country folk to be up and to arm.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Tales of a Wayside Inn

Pt. I, The Landlord's Tale: Paul Revere's Ride, st. 2.
Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863-1874)

Sea , Country

“Hospitality sitting with Gladness.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Translation from Frithiof's Saga.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“He is a little chimney and heated hot in a moment.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Courtship of Miles Standish

Part VI
The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858)

“As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so change of studies a dull brain.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Table-Talk (1857)

Study , Change

“And suddenly through the drifting brume
The blare of the horns began to ring.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Tales of a Wayside Inn

King Olaf's War-Horns, st. 2.
Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863-1874)

“O Bells of San Blas in vain
Ye call back the Past again;
The Past is deaf to your prayer!
Out of the shadows of night
The world rolls into light;
It is daybreak everywhere.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Bells of San Blas, st. 11 (March 15, 1882).

World , Light , Past , Night

“Every great poem is in itself limited by necessity, — but in its suggestions unlimited and infinite.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Table-Talk (1857)

“"O father! I see a gleaming light.
Oh say, what may it be?"
But the father answered never a word,
A frozen corpse was he.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

St. 12.
The Wreck of the Hesperus (1842)

Light

“A feeling of sadness and longing,
That is not akin to pain,
And resembles sorrow only
As the mist resembles the rain.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

St. 3.
The Day is Done (1845)

Pain , Sadness , Feeling

“Build me straight, O worthy Master!
Stanch and strong, a goodly vessel,
That shall laugh at all disaster,
And with wave and whirlwind wrestle!”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Building of the Ship

Source: The Building of the Ship (1849), Lines 1-4.

Strong

“Such was the wreck of the Hesperus,
In the midnight and the snow!
Christ save us all from a death like this,
On the reef of Norman's Woe!”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

St. 22.
The Wreck of the Hesperus (1842)

Death , Christ

“But oftentimes celestial benedictions
Assume this dark disguise.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Resignation

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

“Thine was the prophet's vision, thine
The exaltation, the divine
Insanity of noble minds,
That never falters nor abates,
But labors and endures and waits,
Till all that it foresees it finds
Or what it can not find creates.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Kéramos http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/lit/poetry/TheCompletePoeticalWorksofHenryWadsworthLongfellow/chap22.html, st. 9 (1878).

Waiting

“And see! she stirs!
She starts,—she moves,—she seems to feel
The thrill of life along her keel,
And, spurning with her foot the ground,
With one exulting, joyous bound,
She leaps into the ocean's arms!”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Building of the Ship

Source: The Building of the Ship (1849), Lines 349-354.

Life , Feeling

“Big words do not smite like war-clubs,
Boastful breath is not a bow-string,
Taunts are not so sharp as arrows,
Deeds are better things than words are,
Actions mightier than boastings.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow book The Song of Hiawatha

Pt. IX.
The Song of Hiawatha (1855)

War