Talk:Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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• Know how sublime a thing it is
  To suffer and be strong.

• One half of the world must sweat and groan that the other half may dream.

• Sometimes we may learn more from a man's errors than from his virtues.

• The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, and all the sweet serenity of books

• There's nothing in this world so sweet as love, and next to love the sweetest thing is hate.

Draft

• If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it;
  Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.
  • Elegiac Verse

• That is best which lieth nearest;
  Shape from that thy work of art.
  • Gaspar Becerra

• Giotto's tower,
  The lily of Florence blossoming in stone.
  • Giotto's Tower

• You would attain to the divine perfection,
  And yet not turn your back upon the world.
  • Michael Angelo

• Would seem angelic in the sight of God,
  Yet not too saint-like in the eyes of men;
  In short, would lead a holy Christian life
  In such a way that even your nearest friend
  Would not detect therein one circumstance
  To show a change from what it was before.
  • Michael Angelo

• The men that women marrу,
  And why they marry them, will always be
  A marvel and a mystery to the world.
  • Michael Angelo

• A solid man of Boston.
  A comfortable man, with dividends,
  And the first salmon, and the first green peas.
  • New England Tragedies, John Endicott

• Not in the clamour of the crowded street,
  Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng,
  But in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.
  • The Poets

• "Wouldst thou"—so the helmsman answered,—
  "Learn the secret of the sea?
  Only those who brave its dangers
  Comprehend its mystery!"
  • The Secret of the Sea

• Beside the ungathered rice he lay,
  His sickle in his hand.
  • The Slave's Dream

• He did not feel the driver's whip,
  Nor the burning heat of day;
  For Death had illumined the Land of Sleep,
  And his lifeless body lay
  A worn-out fetter, that the soul
  Had broken and thrown away!
  • The Slave's Dream

• Stay, stay at home, my heart, and rest;
  Home-keeping hearts are happiest.
  • Stay, Stay at Home

Translations

• I know a maiden fair to see,
  Take care!
  She can both false and friendly be,
  Beware! Beware!
  Trust her not,
  She is fooling thee! Beware!
  • From the German
    • Ficaia (talk) 13:54, 2 August 2025 (UTC)

• Live I, so live I,
  To my Lord heartily,
  To my Prince faithfully
  To my Neighbour honestly,
  Die I, so die I.
  • From Friedrich von Logau, Sinngedichte'

Tangential

• Most of the books published during the five-year period leading up to, during, and after the invasion of Mexico were war-mongering tracts. Euro-American settlers were nearly all literate, and this was the period of the foundational "American literature," with writers James Fenimore Cooper, Walt Whitman, Edgar Allan Poe, John Greenleaf Whittier, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, James Russell Lowell, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Herman Melville all active-each of whom remains read, revered, and studied in the twenty-first century, as national and nationalist writers, not as colonialists. Although some of the writers, like Melville and Longfellow, paid little attention to the war, most of the others either fiercely supported it or opposed it.
  • Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States (2014) --- might work in American literature Ficaia (talk) 19:08, 2 August 2025 (UTC)

Final Memorials of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1887)

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• Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
  • Ch. XIX. Table-Talk.

RZiman (talk) 15:36, 18 September 2025 (UTC)