Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Quotes about heart

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was American poet. Explore interesting quotes on heart.
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“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)

“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)

“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.

“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)

“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)

“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)

“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.

“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)

“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).

“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)

“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).

“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)