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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Ah, Nothing is too late, till the tired heart shall cease to palpitate.


— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


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Glorious indeed is the world of God around us, but more glorious the world of God within us.


— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


#inspirational

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


— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


#mourning

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each tomorrow Find us farther than today.


— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


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It is difficult to know at what moment love begins; it is less difficult to know that it has begun


— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


#love

Art is long, and Time is fleeting.


— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


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Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears, our faith triumphant o’er our fears, are all with thee – are all with thee!


— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


#prayer #faith

Unasked, Unsought, Love gives itself but is not bought


— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


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Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven, Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.


— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


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Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.


— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


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He pursued his literary goals by submitting poetry and prose to various newspapers and magazines partly due to encouragement from a professor named Thomas Cogswell Upham. When the younger Fanny was born on April 7 1847 Dr. His publiHenry Wadsworth Longfellowd poetry shows great versatility using anapestic and trochaic forms blank verse heroic couplets ballads and sonnets.

He has been criticized however for imitating European styles and writing specifically for the masses. His first wife Mary Potter died in 1835 after a miscarriage. He was also the first American to translate Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy and was one of the five Fireside Poets.

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