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Hyperion

Name: Hyperion
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Hyperion: A Romance is one of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's earliest works, published in 1839. It is a prose romance which was published alongside his first volume of poems, Voices of the Night.

“Something the heart must have to cherish,
Must love and joy and sorrow learn;
Something with passion clasp, or perish
And in itself to ashes burn.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow book Hyperion

Hyperion, book ii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Who ne'er his bread in sorrow ate,
Who ne'er the mournful midnight hours
Weeping upon his bed has sate,
He knows you not, ye Heavenly Powers.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow book Hyperion

Motto, Hyperion, book i.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Alas! it is not till time, with reckless hand, has torn out half the leaves from the Book of Human Life to light the fires of passion with from day to day, that man begins to see that the leaves which remain are few in number.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow book Hyperion

Hyperion, book iv. Chap. viii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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