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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

American poet and educator

1807–1882

47 quotes, most often on Life & Death, Time and Nature. Part of the Poets collection.

Silently one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven,
Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.
Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie (1847), Part I, section 3.
- Nature
If spring came but once in a century, instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake, and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change!
Kavanagh: A Tale (1849), Chapter 13.
- Nature
By the shores of Gitche Gumee,
By the shining Big-Sea-Water,
Stood the wigwam of Nokomis
Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis.
The Song of Hiawatha (1855), III. Hiawatha’s ChildhoodIn context
- Nature
Should you ask me, whence these stories?
Whence these legends and traditions,
With the odors of the forest,
With the dew and damp of meadows,
With the curling smoke of wigwams,
With the rushing of great rivers,
With their frequent repetitions,
And their wild reverberations,
As of thunder in the mountains?
The Song of Hiawatha (1855), IntroductionIn context
- Nature
- Poetry

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