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Upon Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- He had mittens, Minjekahwun, Magic mittens made of deer-skin; When upon his hands he wore them, He could smite the rocks asunder, He could grind…
- 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…
- And as she looked around, she saw how Death the consoler, Laying his hand upon many a heart, had healed it forever.
- The everyday cares and duties, which men call drudgery, are the weights and counterpoises of the clock of time, giving its pendulum a true vibration…
- Oh, how beautiful is the summer night, which is not night, but a sunless, yet unclouded, day, descending upon earth with dews and shadows and…
- The spring came suddenly, bursting upon the world as a child bursts into a room, with a laugh and a shout and hands full of…
- As I gaze upon the sea! All the old romantic legends, all my dreams, come back to me.
- I saw the long line of the vacant shore, The sea-weed and the shells upon the sand, And the brown rocks left bare on every…
- The sun is set; and in his latest beams Yon little cloud of ashen gray and gold, Slowly upon the amber air unrolled, The falling…
- Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
- Thus thought I, as by night I read Of the great army of the dead, The trenches cold and damp, The starved and frozen camp,--…
- I venerate old age; and I love not the man who can look without emotion upon the sunset of life, when the dusk of evening…
- You would attain to the divine perfection, And yet not turn your back upon the world
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