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Favorite Poems QUOTES

Favorite Poems QUOTES

1 " In character, in manner, in style, in all the things, the supreme excellence is simplicity "

― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , Favorite Poems

2 " Ah, how skilful grows the hand That obeyeth Love’s command! It is the heart, and not the brain, That to the highest doth attain, And he who followeth Love’s behest Far excelleth all the rest! "

― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , Favorite Poems

3 " Happy, thrice happy, every one Who sees his labor well begun, And not perplexed and multiplied, By idly waiting for time and tide! "

― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , Favorite Poems

4 " Like unto ships far off at sea, Outward or homeward bound, are we. Before, behind, and all around, Floats and swings the horizons bound, Seems at its distant rim to rise And climb the crystal wall of the skies, And then again to turn and sink, As if we could slide from its outer brink. Ah! it is not the sea, It is not the sea that sinks and shelves, But ourselves That rock and rise With endless and uneasy motion, Now touching the very skies, Now sinking into the depths of ocean. Ah! if our souls but poise and swing Like the compass in its brazen ring, Ever level and ever true To the toil and the task we have to do, We shall sail securely, and safely reach The Fortunate Isles, on whose shining beach The sights we see, and the sounds we hear, Will be those of joy and not of fear! "

― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , Favorite Poems

5 " Fierce in his soul was the struggle and tumult of passions contending; Love triumphant and crowned, and friendship wounded and bleeding, Passionate cries of desire, and importunate pleadings of duty! "

― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , Favorite Poems