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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 e Citazioni

“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

“From the water-fall he named her,
Minnehaha, Laughing Water.”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow libro The Song of Hiawatha

Pt. IV, Hiawatha and Mudjekeewis, st. 33.
The Song of Hiawatha (1855)

“The holiest of all holidays are those
Kept by ourselves in silence and apart;
The secret anniversaries of the heart,
When the full river of feeling overflows.”

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Holidays http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/longfellow/19219 (1878).

“He speaketh not; and yet there lies
A conversation in his eyes.”

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The Hanging of the Crane.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“Build on, and make thy castles high and fair,
Rising and reaching upward to the skies;
Listen to voices in the upper air,
Nor lose thy simple faith in mysteries.”

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The Castle-builder.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“I stood on the bridge at midnight,
As the clocks were striking the hour,
And the moon rose o'er the city,
Behind the dark church-tower.”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Bridge

The Bridge, st. 1 (1845).

“By the shores of Gitche Gumee,
By the shining Big-Sea-Water,
Stood the wigwam of Nokomis,
Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis.”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow libro The Song of Hiawatha

Pt. III, Hiawatha’s Childhood, st. 8.
The Song of Hiawatha (1855)

“When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie

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

“His brow is wet with honest sweat,
He earns whate'er he can,
And looks the whole world in the face,
For he owes not any man.”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Village Blacksmith

St. 2.
The Village Blacksmith (1842)

“Oh the long and dreary Winter!
Oh the cold and cruel Winter!”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow libro The Song of Hiawatha

Pt. XX.
The Song of Hiawatha (1855)

“O thou child of many prayers!
Life hath quicksands; life hath snares!”

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Maidenhood http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/longfellow/12212, st. 9 (1842).

“St. Augustine! well hast thou said,
That of our vices we can frame
A ladder, if we will but tread
Beneath our feet each deed of shame!”

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The Ladder of St. Augustine, st. 1 (1858).

“The shades of night were falling fast,
As through an Alpine village passed
A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice,
A banner with the strange device,
Excelsior!”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Excelsior

Excelsior, st. 1 (1842).

“Alike were they free from
Fear, that reigns with the tyrant, and envy, the vice of republics.
Neither locks had they to their doors, nor bars to their windows;
But their dwellings were open as day and the hearts of their owners;
There the richest was poor, and the poorest lived in abundance.”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie

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

“He has singed the beard of the king of Spain.”

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The Dutch Picture, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“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), Lines 375-376.

“One, if by land, and two, if by sea;
And I on the opposite shore will be,
Ready to ride and spread the alarm
Through every Middlesex village and farm
For the country folk to be up and to arm.”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Tales of a Wayside Inn

Pt. I, The Landlord's Tale: Paul Revere's Ride, st. 2.
Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863-1874)

“Hospitality sitting with Gladness.”

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Translation from Frithiof's Saga.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

“He is a little chimney and heated hot in a moment.”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Courtship of Miles Standish

Part VI
The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858)

“As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so change of studies a dull brain.”

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Table-Talk (1857)

“And suddenly through the drifting brume
The blare of the horns began to ring.”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Tales of a Wayside Inn

King Olaf's War-Horns, st. 2.
Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863-1874)

“O Bells of San Blas in vain
Ye call back the Past again;
The Past is deaf to your prayer!
Out of the shadows of night
The world rolls into light;
It is daybreak everywhere.”

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The Bells of San Blas, st. 11 (March 15, 1882).

“Every great poem is in itself limited by necessity, — but in its suggestions unlimited and infinite.”

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Table-Talk (1857)

“"O father! I see a gleaming light.
Oh say, what may it be?"
But the father answered never a word,
A frozen corpse was he.”

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St. 12.
The Wreck of the Hesperus (1842)

“A feeling of sadness and longing,
That is not akin to pain,
And resembles sorrow only
As the mist resembles the rain.”

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St. 3.
The Day is Done (1845)

“Build me straight, O worthy Master!
Stanch and strong, a goodly vessel,
That shall laugh at all disaster,
And with wave and whirlwind wrestle!”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Building of the Ship

Origine: The Building of the Ship (1849), Lines 1-4.

“Such was the wreck of the Hesperus,
In the midnight and the snow!
Christ save us all from a death like this,
On the reef of Norman's Woe!”

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St. 22.
The Wreck of the Hesperus (1842)

“But oftentimes celestial benedictions
Assume this dark disguise.”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Resignation

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

“Thine was the prophet's vision, thine
The exaltation, the divine
Insanity of noble minds,
That never falters nor abates,
But labors and endures and waits,
Till all that it foresees it finds
Or what it can not find creates.”

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Kéramos http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/lit/poetry/TheCompletePoeticalWorksofHenryWadsworthLongfellow/chap22.html, st. 9 (1878).

“And see! she stirs!
She starts,—she moves,—she seems to feel
The thrill of life along her keel,
And, spurning with her foot the ground,
With one exulting, joyous bound,
She leaps into the ocean's arms!”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Building of the Ship

Origine: The Building of the Ship (1849), Lines 349-354.

“Big words do not smite like war-clubs,
Boastful breath is not a bow-string,
Taunts are not so sharp as arrows,
Deeds are better things than words are,
Actions mightier than boastings.”

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow libro The Song of Hiawatha

Pt. IX.
The Song of Hiawatha (1855)

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