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“Se la primavera venisse una volta ogni 100 anni invece di una volta all'anno, o sopraggiungesse con il boato di un terremoto, con quanta meraviglia gli uomini assisterebbero a una tale mutamento! Il silenzioso susseguirsi delle stagioni, invece, fa ormai pensare soltanto a una necessità.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sugli uomini , Primavera , Stagione

“Per la maggior parte degli uomini solo la cessazione del miracolo sarebbe miracolosa, e il perpetuo esercizio del potere divino sembra meno meraviglioso di quanto non sarebbe la sua assenza.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Origine: Citato in Selezione dal Reader's Digest, giugno 1974.

Sull'arte , Sugli uomini , esercizi

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Frasi in inglese

“Chorus of the Eumenides: …
With useless endeavour
Forever, forever,
Is Sisyphus rolling
His stone up the mountain!”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Masque of Pandora and Other Poems (1875)

“Books are sepulchres of thought.”

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Wind over the Chimney, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“And yet, through the gloom and the light,
The fate of a nation was riding that night.”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Tales of a Wayside Inn

Pt. I, The Landlord's Tale: Paul Revere's Ride, st. 8.
Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863-1874)

“Thy fate is the common fate of all;
Into each life some rain must fall,
Some days must be dark and dreary.”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Rainy Day

"The Rainy Day", Bentley's Miscellany ( December 1841 http://books.google.com/books?id=pW8AAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Thy+fate+is+the+common+fate+of+all+Into+each+life+some+rain+must+fall+some+days+must+be+dark+and+dreary%22&pg=PA626#v=onepage).

“Thus, seamed with many scars
Bursting these prison bars,
Up to its native stars
My soul ascended!
There from the flowing bowl
Deep drinks the warrior's soul,
Skoal! to the Northland! skoal!
—Thus the tale ended.”

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The Skeleton in Armor, st. 20 (1841).

“And now, my classmates; ye remaining few
That number not the half of those we knew,
Ye, against whose familiar names not yet
The fatal asterisk of death is set,
Ye I salute!”

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St. 13.
Morituri Salutamus http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/longfellow/19229 (1875)

“Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution,
She lives whom we call dead.”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Resignation

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

“Standing, with reluctant feet,
Where the brook and river meet,
Womanhood and childhood fleet!”

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Maidenhood http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/longfellow/12212, st. 3 (1842).

“We often excuse our own want of philanthropy by giving the name of fanaticism to the more ardent zeal of others.”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Table-Talk (1857)

“Thus departed Hiawatha,
Hiawatha the Beloved,
In the glory of the sunset,
In the purple mists of evening,
To the regions of the home-wind,
Of the Northwest-Wind, Keewaydin,
To the Islands of the Blessed,
To the Kingdom of Ponemah,
To the Land of the Hereafter!”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow libro The Song of Hiawatha

Pt. XXII, Hiawatha's Departure, st. 29.
The Song of Hiawatha (1855)

“And as she looked around, she saw how Death the consoler,
Laying his hand upon many a heart, had healed it forever.”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie

Part II, section 5.
Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie (1847)

“Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A Psalm of Life

St. 2.
A Psalm of Life (1839)

“Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee,
Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears,
Our faith triumphant o'er our fears,
Are all with thee,—are all with thee!”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Building of the Ship

Origine: The Building of the Ship (1849), Lines 396-399.

“Sail forth into the sea of life,
O gentle, loving, trusting wife,
And safe from all adversity
Upon the bosom of that sea
Thy comings and thy goings be!
For gentleness and love and trust
Prevail o'er angry wave and gust;
And in the wreck of noble lives
Something immortal still survives.”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Building of the Ship

Origine: The Building of the Ship (1849), Line 368.

“I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart's history, that all errors and short-comings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self-assertion of youth.”

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Table-Talk (1857)

“God sent his Singers upon earth
With songs of sadness and of mirth,
That they might touch the hearts of men,
And bring them back to heaven again.”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Singers

The Singers, st. 1 (1849).

“But the great Master said, "I see
No best in kind, but in degree;
I gave a various gift to each,
To charm, to strengthen, and to teach.”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Singers

The Singers, st. 6.

“O holy trust! O endless sense of rest!
Like the beloved John
To lay his head upon the Saviour's breast,
And thus to journey on!”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow libro The Seaside and the Fireside

"Hymn, For my Brother's Ordination", The Seaside and the Fireside (1850).

“Doubtless criticism was originally benignant, pointing out the beauties of a work, rather than its defects. The passions of men have made it malignant, as the bad heart of Procrustes turned the bed, the symbol of repose, into an instrument of torture.”

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Table-Talk (1857)

“Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State!
Sail on, O Union, strong and great!
Humanity with all its fears,
With all the hopes of future years,
Is hanging breathless on thy fate!”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Building of the Ship

Origine: The Building of the Ship (1849), Lines 378-382.

“The grave itself is but a covered bridge,
Leading from light to light, through a brief darkness!”

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The Golden Legend, Pt. V, A Covered Bridge at Lucerne.

“Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
"Life is but an empty dream!"
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A Psalm of Life

St. 1.
A Psalm of Life (1839)

“In the long, sleepless watches of the night,
A gentle face — the face of one long dead —
Looks at me from the wall, where round its head
The night-lamp casts a halo of pale light.”

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The Cross of Snow http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/longfellow/19251 (1879).

“Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie

Part II, section 1.
Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie (1847)

“The prayer of Ajax was for light.”

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

“Stars of the summer night!
Far in yon azure deeps,
Hide, hide your golden light!
She sleeps!
My lady sleeps!”

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The Spanish Student http://www.readbookonline.net/title/3208/, Act I, sc. iii (serenade) (1843).

“I hear in the chamber above me
The patter of little feet,
The sound of a door that is opened,
And voices soft and sweet.”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Children's Hour

The Children's Hour, St. 2.

“Between the dark and the daylight,
When the night is beginning to lower,
Comes a pause in the day's occupation,
That is known as the Children's Hour.”

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The Children's Hour http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/longfellow/19249, St. 1 (1860).

“There is no flock, however watched and tended,
But one dead lamb is there!
There is no fireside, howsoe'er defended,
But has one vacant chair!”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Resignation

Resignation, st. 1 (1849).

“Hold the fleet angel fast until he bless thee.”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow libro Kavanagh

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

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