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There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water,

There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or into its depths like a pebble Drops some careless word, it overflows, and its secret, Spilt on the ground like water, can never be gathered together.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Heart, Water, Secret
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2012). “Favorite Poems”, p.64, Courier Corporation

And all the air is filled with pleasant noise of waters

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Air, Water, Noise

Work is my recreation, The play of faculty; a delight like that Which a bird feels in flying, or a fish In darting through the water,--Nothing more.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Work, Play, Water
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (2008). “Michael Angelo and Translations”, p.88, Wildside Press LLC

Rule by patience, Laughing Water!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Patience, Water, Laughing
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, J. D. McClatchy (2000). “Poems and Other Writings”, p.205, Library of America

Then from the neighboring thicket the mocking-bird, wildest of singers, Swinging aloft on a willow spray that hung o'er the water, Shook from his little throat such floods of delirious music, That the whole air and the woods and the waves seemed silent to listen.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Air, Water, Bird
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.49, Penguin

"Do not fear! Heaven is as near," He said, "by water as by land!"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Fear, Land, Water
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.424

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