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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The course of my long life hath reached at last In fragile bark o'er a tempestuous sea... Go to Quote / Comment
The strength of criticism lies in the weakness of the thing criticized. Go to Quote / Comment
Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom. Go to Quote / Comment
Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future, without fear. Go to Quote / Comment
Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall. Go to Quote / Comment