Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes about Childhood

Standing, with reluctant feet, Where the brook and river meet, Womanhood and childhood fleet!
'Michael Angelo' (1883) pt. 1, sect. 5
Love makes its record in deeper colors as we grow out of childhood into manhood.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1873). “Prose Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow”, p.454