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With useless endeavour Forever, forever, Is Sisyphus rolling His stone up the mountain!

With useless endeavour Forever, forever, Is Sisyphus rolling His stone up the mountain!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Forever, Mountain, Useless
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “The Masque Of Pandora”

Perhaps the chief cause which has retarded the progress of poetry in America, is the want of that exclusive cultivation, which so noble a branch of literature would seem to require. Few here think of relying upon the exertion of poetic talent for a livelihood, and of making literature the profession of life. The bar or the pulpit claims the greater part of the scholar's existence, and poetry is made its pastime.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Thinking, America, Progress
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.794, Library of America

Many people do not allow their principles to take root, but pull them up every now and then, as children do the flowers they have planted, to see if they are growing.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Children, Flower, Roots

There are favorable hours for reading a book, as for writing it.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Book, Reading, Writing
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.453

O weary hearts! O slumbering eyes! O drooping souls, whose destinies Are fraught with fear and pain, Ye shall be loved again.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Pain, Heart, Eye
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1848). “Poems”, p.49

Happy art thou, as if every day thou hadst picked up a horseshoe.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Art, Luck, Horseshoes
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.103

The mind of the scholar, if he would leave it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Mind, Literature, Should

The Helicon of too many poets is not a hill crowned with sunshine and visited by the Muses and the Graces, but an old, mouldering house, full of gloom and haunted by ghosts.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sunshine, House, Grace
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1866). “Kavanagh. Driftwood”, p.363

For next to being a great poet is the power of understanding one.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Understanding, Next, Poet
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1854). “The Works: Hyperion”, p.62

Welcome, my old friend, Welcome to a foreign fireside.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Old Friends, Welcome
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1850). “Poems lyrical and dramatic, including “The seaside and the fireside” ... Second edition”, p.321

Much must he toil who serves the Immortal Gods.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Toil, Immortal
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.875, Delphi Classics

The Nile, forever new and old, Among the living and the dead, Its mighty, mystic stream has rolled.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Forever, Mystic, Streams
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.148

Men of genius are often dull and inert in society; as the blazing meteor, when it descends to earth, is only a stone.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Inspirational, Men, Genius
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.729, Library of America

Many have genius, but, wanting art, are forever dumb. The two must go together to form the great poet, painter, or sculptor.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Art, Two, Forever
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.2078, Delphi Classics

Perhaps there lives some dreamy boy, untaught In schools, some graduate of the field or street, Who shall become a master of art, An admiral sailing the high seas of thought Fearless and first, and steering with his fleet For lands not yet laid down in any chart.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Art, School, Boys
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.1073, Delphi Classics

'Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees Filled all the air with fragrance and with joy.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Easter, Sunday, Air
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.49

The counterfeit and counterpart of Nature is reproduced in art.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Art, Nature, Counterfeit Money
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.645, Library of America

Torrent of light and river of air, Along whose bed the glimmering stars are seen, Like gold and silver sands in some ravine Where mountain streams have left their channels bare!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Stars, Science, Rivers
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.844, Jazzybee Verlag

Decide not rashly. The decision made Can never be recalled. The gods implore not, Plead not, solicit not; they only offer Choice and occasion, which once being passed Return no more. Dost thou accept the gift?

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Choices, Decision, Return
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.878, Delphi Classics

A handful of red sand from the hot clime Of Arab deserts brought, Within this glass becomes the spy of Time, The minister of Thought.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Time, Glasses, Spy
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.135

Don't cross the bridge til you come to it.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Patience, Bridges, Crosses

Then followed that beautiful season... Summer.... Filled was the air with a dreamy and magical light; and the landscape Lay as if new created in all the freshness of childhood.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Beautiful, Summer, June
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.31, Penguin

The sentence of the first murderer was pronounced by the Supreme Judge of the universe. Was it death? No, it was life. 'A fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth'; and 'Whosoever slayeth Cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Taken, Judging, Vagabonds
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1887). “Final Memorials of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”

Round about what is, lies a whole mysterious world of might be, a psychological romance of possibilities and things that do not happen.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Lying, Ideas, Romance
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.452

I stay a little longer, as one stays, to cover up the embers that still burn.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sympathy, Death, Condolences
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Outre-Mer - A Pilgrimage Beyond The Sea (Annotated Edition)”, p.8, Jazzybee Verlag

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