Midnight! the outpost of advancing day! The frontier town and citadel of night! — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Success is not something to wait for, it is something to work for. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Classroom Copy Share Image
The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Prize Copy Share Image
The air is full of farewells to the dying. And mournings for the dead. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
And the wind plays on those great sonorous harps, the shrouds and masts of ships. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
“ STILL stands the forest primeval; but far away from its shadow, Side by side, in their nameless graves, the lovers are sleeping.” — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Lovers Copy Share Image
The highest exercise of imagination is not to devise what has no existence, but rather to perceive what really exists, though unseen… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Art Copy Share Image
Then read from the treasured volume the poem of thy choice, and lend to the rhyme of the poet the beauty of… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Beauty Copy Share Image
All are architects of Fate, Working in these walls of Time; Some with massive deeds and great, Some with ornaments of rhyme. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Architect Copy Share Image
My soul is full of longing for the secret of the sea, and the heart of the great ocean sends a thrilling… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Heart Copy Share Image
The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Ghosts Copy Share Image
All nature ... is a respiration Of the Spirit of God, who, in breathing hereafter Will inhale it into his bosom again,… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
O holy trust! O endless sense of rest! Like the beloved John To lay his head upon the Saviour's breast, And thus… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Beloved Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Kind messages, that pass from land to land; Kind letters, that betray the heart's deep history, In which we feel the pressure… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Then from the neighboring thicket the mocking-bird, wildest of singers, Swinging aloft on a willow spray that hung o'er the water, Shook… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Ah, how skillful grows the hand That obeyeth Love's command! It is the heart, and not the brain, That to the highest… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Brain Copy Share Image
One, if by land, and two, if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Truths that startled the generation in which they were first announced become in the next age the commonplaces of conversation; as the… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Age Copy Share Image
Decide not rashly. The decision made Can never be recalled. The gods implore not, Plead not, solicit not; they only offer Choice… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Write on your doors the saying wise and old, "Be bold! be bold!" and everywhere - "Be bold; Be not too bold!"… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Into each life some rain must fall, some days must be dark and dreary. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
It has done me good to be somewhat parched by the heat and drenched by the rain of life. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
The low desire, the base design That makes another's virtues less. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Character Copy Share Image
Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Fear Copy Share Image
But oftentimes celestial benedictions Assume this dark disguise. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Look upon the errors of others in sorrow, not in anger. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Anger Copy Share Image
Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Defeat Copy Share Image
The sea hath its pearls The heaven hath its stars But my heart, my heart Has its love. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
My designs and labors and aspirations are my only friends. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Aspiration Copy Share Image
All your strength is in union, all your danger is in discord. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Danger Copy Share Image
As I gaze upon the sea! All the old romantic legends, all my dreams, come back to me. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
They who live in history only seemed to walk the earth again. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Earth Copy Share Image
A life that is worth writing at all is worth writing minutely. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Give what you have. To some one, it may be better than you dare to think. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
The greatest grace of a gift, perhaps, is that it anticipates and admits of no return. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Copy Share Image
