Quotes by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Awake! arise! the hour is late! Angels are knocking at thy door!They are in haste and cannot wait, And once departed com — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Midnight! the outpost of advancing day!The frontier town and citadel of night!The watershed of Time, from which the stre — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The ceaseless rain is falling fast,And yonder gilded vane,Immovable for three days past,Points to the misty main,It driv — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Lull me to sleep, ye winds, whose fitful soundSeems from some faint Aeolian harp-string caught;Seal up the hundred wakef — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The writer of this legend then recordsIts ghostly application in these words:The image is the Adversary old,Whose beckon — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is the mystery of the unknownThat fascinates us; we are children stillWayward and wistful; with one hand we clingTo t — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
O, never from the memory of my heartYour dear, paternal image shall depart,Who while on earth, ere yet by death surprise — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Wisely the Hebrews admit no Present tense in their language;While we are speaking the word, it is is already the Past. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sadly as some old mediaeval knightGazed at the arms he could no longer wield,The sword two-handed and the shining shield — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
For age is opportunity no less Than youth itself, though in another dress, And as the evening twilight fades away The sk — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
It is too late! Ah, nothing is too lateTill the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.Cato learned Greek at eighty; Sopho — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Write on your doors the saying wise and old,"Be bold! be bold!" and everywhere-- "Be bold;Be not too bold!" Yet better t — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow