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Love is sunshine, hate is shadow, Life is checkered shade and sunshine.

Love is sunshine, hate is shadow, Life is checkered shade and sunshine.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Life, Hate, Sunshine
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.205, Library of America

Be thy sleep Silent as night is, and as deep.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sleep, Night, Silent
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.162

All things come round to him who will but wait.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Patience, Waiting, All Things
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edwin Edwards (1871). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Edited, with a Critical Memoir, by W. M. Rossetti. Illustrated ... by E. Edwards”, p.317

If we could read the secret history of our enemies.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Forgiveness, Peace, Anger
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.452

The morning breaks; the steeds in their stalls Stamp and neigh, as the hostler calls; The day returns, but nevermore Returns the traveler to the shore, And the tide rises, the tide falls.

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Time, Morning, Fall
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1899). “the Compelete Poetical Works”

O lovely river of Yvette! O darling river! like a bride, Some dimpled, bashful, fair Lisette Thou goest to wed the Orge's tide. O lovely river Yvette! O darling stream! on balanced wings The wood-birds sang the chansonnette That here a wandering poet sings.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Wings, Rivers, Bird
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1883). “Longfellow's Poetical Works: With 83 Illustrations by Sir John Gilbert, R.A., and Other Artists”

Where, twisted round the barren oak, The summer vine in beauty clung, And summer winds the stillness broke, The crystal icicle is hung.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Summer, Winter, Wind
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.8

How in the turmoil of life can love stand, Where there is not one heart, and one mouth and one hand.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Sympathy, Heart, Hands
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “The Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Complete in One Volume”, p.113

Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said; For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Ballads, Said
'Children' (1849)

The nimble lie Is like the second-hand upon a clock; We see it fly; while the hour-hand of truth Seems to stand still, and yet it moves unseen, And wins, at last, for the clock will not strike Till it has reached the goal.

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Truth, Lying, Moving
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2008). “Michael Angelo and Translations”, p.137, Wildside Press LLC

To-morrow! the mysterious, unknown guest, Who cries to me: "Remember Barmecide, And tremble to be happy with the rest." And I make answer: "I am satisfied; I dare not ask; I know not what is best; God hath already said what shall betide.

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Answers, Guests, Tomorrow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.338

Time, like a preacher in the days of the Puritans, turned the hour-glass on his high pulpit, the church belfry.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Time, Glasses, Church
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1857). “Prose Works”, p.171

Think not because no man sees, such things will remain unseen.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Time, Men, Thinking
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867). “The Poetical Works of H. W. Longfellow. Complete Edition”, p.134

Out of the shadows of night The world rolls into light.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Night, Light, World
"In the harbor. Part II: Ultima Thule" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and company, 1882.

The air of summer was sweeter than wine.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Summer, Wine, Air
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.305

Death is better than disease.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Death, Disease
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.148

People demand freedom only when they have no power.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Freedom, People, Liberty

This song of mine Is a song of the vine To be sung by the glowing embers Of wayside inns, When the rain begins To darken the drear Novembers. and For the richest and best Is the wind of the West That grows by the Beautiful River; Whose sweet perfume Fills all the room With a bension on the giver. and When you ask one friend to dine, Give hime your best wine! When you ask two, The second best will do.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Beautiful, Song, Sweet

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

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Farewell, Air, Mourning
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1871). “The Poetical Works”, p.133

Youth comes but once in a lifetime.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Inspirational, Life, Birthday
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1851). “The prose works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.97

Critics are sentinels in the grand army of letters, stationed at the corners of newspapers and reviews, to challenge every new author.

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Army, Challenges, Criticism
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Kavanagh (Annotated Edition)”, p.46, Jazzybee Verlag

A noble type of good. Heroic womanhood.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Noble, Heroic, Type
"Santa Filomena" st. 10 (1858).

They, the holy ones and weakly, Who the cross of suffering bore, Folded their pale hands so meekly, Spake with us on earth no more!

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Hands, Suffering, Earth
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849). “The Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Complete in One Volume”, p.10

Look, then, into thine heart, and write! Yes, into Life's deep stream! All forms of sorrow and delight, All solemn Voices of the Night, That can soothe thee, or affright, - Be these henceforth thy theme. (excerpt from "Voices of the Night")

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Writing, Heart, Night
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “Voices Of The Night: Prelude”

Art is long, and Time is fleeting.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Life, Art, Long
"A Psalm of Life" st. 4 (1838)

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