American poet and educator Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is one of the greatest poets in American history. Born in Portland, Maine, He became professor of Modern Languages in Harvard University; wrote "Hyperion," a romance in prose, and a succession of poems as well as lyrics, among the former "Evangeline," "The Golden Legend," "Hiawatha," and "Miles Standish"
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Art is the child of Nature; yes, Her darling child, in whom we trace... Go to Quote / Comment
The heights by great men reached and kept, were not obtained by sudden flight. But they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night Go to Quote / Comment
Trust no future, however pleasant Let the dead past bury its dead Act, - act in the living Present Heart within and God overhead. Go to Quote / Comment
In ourselves are triumph and defeat. Go to Quote / Comment
Age is opportunity no less than youth itself. Go to Quote / Comment