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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
«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 begins to gather over the watery eye, and the shadows of twilight grow broader and deeper upon the understanding.»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
| Keywords:
broader, dusk, Shadows of, sunset, The Shadows, twilight, venerate, venerated, watery, without emotion
«`Wouldst thou' - so the helmsman answered. - / `Learn the secret of the sea? / Only those who brave its dangers / Comprehend its mystery!'»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
| Keywords:
answered, brave, comprehend, comprehended, comprehending, comprehends, dangers, helmsman, mystery, sea, The Sea, The Secret, thou
«Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
| About:
Art,
Motherhood,
Nature
| Keywords:
aspect, Darling, features, Mother Nature, trace
«All that is best in the great poets of all countries is not what is national in them, but what is universal»
«The first pressure of sorrow crushes out from our hearts the best wine; afterwards the constant weight of it brings forth bitterness, the taste and strain from the lees of the vat.»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
| About:
Sorrow
| Keywords:
bitterness, crushes, lees, pressure, strain, vat, vats
«Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave»
«Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State! / Sail on, O Union, strong and great! / Humanity with all its fears, / With all the hopes of future years, / Is hanging breathless on thy fate!»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
| Keywords:
breathless, great year, hanging, hopes, sail, ship, union
«Joy and Temperance and Repose - Slam the door on the doctor's nose»
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(Poet)
| Keywords:
doctor, nose, repose, slam, slamming, slams, temperance, The Doctor