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I dislike an eye that twinkles like a star. Those only are beautiful which, like the planets, have a steady lambent light, are luminous, but not sparkling.

I dislike an eye that twinkles like a star. Those only are beautiful which, like the planets, have a steady lambent light, are luminous, but not sparkling.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Beautiful, Stars, Eye
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1857). “Prose Works”, p.112

Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Errors, Mind, Needs
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (185?). “The Poetical Works of Henry W. Longfellow”, p.450

God's voice was not in the earthquake, Not in the fire, nor the storm, but it was in the whispering breezes.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Earthquakes, Voice, Fire
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.34

Death is the chillness that precedes the dawn; We shudder for a moment, then awake In the broad sunshine of the other life.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Death, Sunshine, Dawn
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2008). “Michael Angelo and Translations”, p.106, Wildside Press LLC

Wondrous strong are the spells of fiction.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Strong, Fiction, Spells
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1857). “Prose Works”, p.451

O holy trust! O endless sense of rest! Like the beloved John To lay his head upon the Saviour's breast, And thus to journey on!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Trust, Journey, Beloved
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1855). “The Poetical Works of H.W. Longfellow ...”, p.77

Authors must not, like Chinese soldiers, expect to win victories by turning somersets in the air.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Winning, Air, Soldier
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.2078, Delphi Classics

A man must be of a very quiet and happy nature, who can long endure the country; and, moreover, very well contented with his own insignificant person.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Country, Men, Long
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1854). “The Works: Hyperion”, p.110

Many critics are like woodpeckers, who, instead of enjoying the fruit and shadow of a tree, hop incessantly around the trunk, pecking holes in the bark to discover some little worm or other.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Tree, Shadow, Littles
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1887). “Final Memorials of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”

What discord should we bring into the universe if our prayers were all answered! Then we should govern the world, and not God. And do you think we should govern it better?

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Prayer, Thinking, World
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1888). “Longfellow's Days: The Longfellow Prose Birthday Book : Extracts from the Journals and Letters of H. W. Longfellow”

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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Marriage, Men, World
'Michael Angelo' (1883) pt. 1, sect. 5

Even the blackest of them all, the crow, Renders good service as your man-at-arms, Crushing the beetle in his coat of mail. And crying havoc on the slug and snail.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Crush, Men, Crow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The poetical works of Henry W. Longfellow, ed. with a critical memoir by W.M. Rossetti, illustr. by W. Lawson. Illustr. by E. Edwards”, p.366

Even cities have their graves!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Cities, Graves
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.946, Delphi Classics

A solid man of Boston; A comfortable man with dividends, And the first salmon and the first green peas.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Men, Boston, Salmon
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.540, Library of America

Silence is a great peacemaker.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Silence, Peacemaker, Silence Is
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (Illustrated)”, p.2429, Delphi Classics

Southward with fleet of ice Sailed the corsair Death; Wild and fast blew the blast, And the east-wind was his breath.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Ice, Wind, East
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.190

At first laying down, as a fact fundamental, That nothing with God can be accidental.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Fundamentals, Laying Down, Firsts
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.190

And so we plough along, as the fly said to the ox.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Work, Said
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “The Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Complete in One Volume”, p.94

Truths that startled the generation in which they were first announced become in the next age the commonplaces of conversation; as the famous airs of operas which thrilled the first audiences come to be played on hand-organs in the streets.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Hands, Air, Age
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1888). “Longfellow's Days: The Longfellow Prose Birthday Book : Extracts from the Journals and Letters of H. W. Longfellow”

To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Faces, Crime, Retribution
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “My Complete Poetical Works (Annotated Edition)”, p.820, Jazzybee Verlag

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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Dream, Sweat, Half
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “Hyperion, and Kavanagh”, p.16

Thus, seamed with many scars Bursting these prison bars, Up to its native stars My soul ascended! There from the flowing bowl Deep drinks the warrior's soul, Skoal! to the Northland! skoal! Thus the tale ended.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Stars, Warrior, Soul
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1847). “The Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Complete in One Volume”, p.38

By the shore of Gitche Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, At the doorway of his wigwam, In the pleasant Summer morning, Hiawatha stood and waited.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Summer, Morning, Sea
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.247

.... Anon from the castle walls The crescent banner falls, And the crowd beholds instead, Like a portent in the sky, Iskander's banner fly, The Black Eagle with double head. And shouts ascend on high .....'' Long live Scanderbeg.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Wall, Fall, Eagles
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Horace Elisha Scudder (1922). “The Complete Poetical Works of Longfellow”

Peace! and no longer from its brazen portals The blast of War's great organ shakes the skies! But beautiful as songs of the immortals, The holy melodies of love arise.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Beautiful, Song, Peace
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1848). “Poems”, p.100

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