Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who offer you friendship Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#friendship

Think of your woods and orchards without birds! Of empty nests that cling to boughs and beams As in an idiot's brain remembered words Hang empty 'mid the cobwebs of his dreams! ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#dreams

These are the woes of Slaves;/They glare from the abyss;/They cry, from unknown graves,/"We are the Witnesses! ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#henry #henry-wadsworth-longfellow #inspirational #longfellow #poems

Yes, we must ever be friends; and of all who off you friendship Let me be ever the first, the truest, the nearest and dearest! ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#friendship

The life of man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams but in active charity and in willing service. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#dreams

He spake well who said that graves are the footprints of angels. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#death #death-angel #footprints #gravestone #death

Music is the language spoken by angels. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#music

Straight between them ran the pathway, Never grew the grass upon it ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#friends #friendship #love #poetry #relationships

The purpose of that apple tree is to grow a little new wood each year. That is what I plan to do. ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#new-perspectives #personal-growth #experience

Balder the beautiful/is dead, is dead! ↗

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#beauty