Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

United States
27 Feb 1807 // 24 Mar 1882
Poet

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

God had sifted three kingdoms to find the wheat for this planting.

The Courtship of Miles Standish

When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.

On Nature:

The hooded clouds, like friars,
Tell their beads in drops of rain.

Midnight Mass

On Paradise:

'Do not fear! Heaven is as near,'
He said, 'by water as by land!'

Sir Humphrey Gilbert, 1849

On Memory:

The leaves of memory seemed to make
A mournful rustling in the dark.

The Fire of Drift-wood

On Life:

O thou child of many prayers!
Life hath quicksands; life hath snares!

Maidenhood

On Death:

The air is full of farewells to the dying,
And mournings for the dead.

Resignation

On Nature:

Into each life some rain must fall,
Some days must be dark and dreary.

The Rainy Day

On Death:

What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers
May be heaven's distant lamps.

Resignation
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