Henry Wadsworth Longfellow1807–1882- The Ladder of St. Augustine, st. 10.
- Christmas Bells, Stanza 1In context
- Drift-wood. QuoteInvestigator (Aug. 19, 2019)
- Samuel Longfellow (ed.) Final Memorials (Boston: Ticknor and Co., 1887) Ch. 19: Table-Talk
- Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie (1847), Part II, section 1.
- Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie (1847), Part I, section 3.
- Retribution, from Friedrich von Logau, Sinngedichte, III, 2, 24
God had sifted three kingdoms to find the wheat for this planting.
The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858), Part IV, John Alden.- Kavanagh: A Tale (1849), Chapter 30 (last lines).
The surest pledge of a deathless name
Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken.The Herons of Elmwood, reported in Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie (1847), Part I, section 1.And in the wreck of noble lives
Something immortal still survives.The Building of the Ship, Lines 375-376.What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers
May be heaven’s distant lamps.Resignation, St. 4.A boy’s will is the wind’s will,
And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.My Lost Youth, refrain (1858), quoting Olaus Sirma
