Earth Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

An angel visited the green earth, and took a flower away.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I shot an arrow into the air, it fell to earth, I knew not where.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

For hate is strong, And mocks the song Of peace on earth, good-will to men!

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

They who live in history only seemed to walk the earth again.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

These stars of earth, these golden flowers.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There is no light in earth or heaven but the cold light of stars; and the first watch of night is given…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

God is not dead; nor doth He sleep; ... The wrong shall fail, The right prevail, With peace on earth, good will…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Stars of earth, these golden flowers; emblems of our own great resurrection; emblems of the bright and better land.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Prayer is innocence's friend; and willingly flieth incessant 'twist the earth and the sky, the carrier-pigeon of heaven.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

For 'tis sweet to stammer one letter Of the Eternal's language; - on earth it is called Forgiveness!

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

God sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth, That they might touch the hearts of men, And…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Oh, how beautiful is the summer night, which is not night, but a sunless, yet unclouded, day, descending upon earth with dews…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sculpture is more divine, and more like Nature, That fashions all her works in high relief, And that is Sculpture. This vast…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

And in despair I bowed my head; "There is no peace on earth," I said; "For hate is strong, And mocks the…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Spake full well, in language quaint and olden, One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine, When he called the flowers, so blue…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The morrow was a bright September morn; The earth was beautiful as if newborn; There was nameless splendor everywhere, That wild exhilaration…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Even He that died for us upon the cross, in the last hour, in the unutterable agony of death, was mindful of…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The sentence of the first murderer was pronounced by the Supreme Judge of the universe. Was it death? No, it was life.…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The warriors that fought for their country, and bled, Have sunk to their rest; the damp earth is their bed; No stone…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are inseparable and inevitable.…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

How absolute and omnipotent is the silence of night! And yet the stillness seems almost audible! From all the measureless depths of…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

In the life of every man there are sudden transitions of feeling, which seem almost miraculous. At once, as if some magician…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

They, the holy ones and weakly, Who the cross of suffering bore, Folded their pale hands so meekly, Spake with us on…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

But ah! what once has been shall be no more! The groaning earth in travail and in pain Brings forth its races,…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow