Frasi di Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow è stato uno scrittore e poeta statunitense, tra i primi letterati americani ad assurgere alla fama mondiale.

Longfellow fu il più famoso poeta della scena del New England nell''800 e scrisse numerose opere tra cui Evangeline e Il faro. Fu un acceso promotore dell'abolizione della schiavitù negli anni prima e durante la Guerra Civile Americana insieme ad altri intellettuali che gravitavano nell'orbita di Harvard e soprattutto insieme all'allora Governatore del Massachusetts John Andrew.

Intorno al 1862 insieme ai letterati James Russell Lowell, Oliver W. Holmes e George Washington Greene diede vita al cosiddetto "Circolo Dante", atto a promuovere la conoscenza della Divina Commedia di Dante Alighieri negli Stati Uniti. Insieme ai suoi colleghi del circolo, Longfellow ne portò a termine la prima traduzione statunitense in inglese nel 1867. Da allora il successo dell'opera di Dante in America fu costante ed in seguito il Circolo diventò la "Dante Society", una delle più famose associazioni di dantisti nel mondo. Wikipedia  

✵ 27. Febbraio 1807 – 24. Marzo 1882  •  Altri nomi Генри Уодсворт Лонгфелло, Longfello Genri Uodsuort
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Frasi in inglese

“The leaves of memory seemed to make
A mournful rustling in the dark.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Fire of Drift-wood, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small;
Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Longfellow's translation of Friedrich von Logau, "Retribution", Sinngedichte III, 2, 24. http://www.kith.org/journals/jed/2002/05/21/452.html.

“A boy's will is the wind's will,
And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

My Lost Youth, refrain (1858), quoting Olaus Sirma
Origine: The Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“When she was good,
She was very good indeed,
But when she was bad she was horrid.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There Was a Little Girl http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/1345.html<br>Often misquoted as &quot;When she was good/She was very, very good&quot;. <br class="br">Contesto: There was a little girl,<br>Who had a little curl,<br>Right in the middle of her forehead.<br>When she was good,<br>She was very good indeed,<br>But when she was bad she was horrid.

“Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow libro Voices of the Night

St. 4.
Cf. Andrew Marvell, Upon the Death of Lord Hastings (1649): "Art indeed is long, but life is short".
A Psalm of Life (1839)
Origine: Voices of the Night

“For his heart was in his work, and the heart
Giveth grace unto every Art.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Building of the Ship

Origine: The Building of the Ship (1849), Line 7.
Origine: Hiawatha: The Story and Song

“What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers
May be heaven's distant lamps.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Resignation

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Resignation

“Time has laid his hand
Upon my heart, gently, not smiting it,
But as a harper lays his open palm
Upon his harp, to deaden its vibrations.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Golden Legend http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10490/10490-h/10490-h.htm, Pt. IV, The Cloisters (1872).

“God had sifted three kingdoms to find the wheat for this planting.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Courtship of Miles Standish

Part IV.
The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858)

“All things come round to him who will but wait.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Tales of a Wayside Inn

Pt. I, The Student's Tale.
Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863-1874)

“Oh, fear not in a world like this,
And thou shalt know erelong,—
Know how sublime a thing it is
To suffer and be strong.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Light of Stars

The Light of Stars, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“There is no greater sorrow
Than to be mindful of the happy time
In misery.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Inferno, canto v, line 121.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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