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Quotes from Tales of a Wayside Inn — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

1807–1882 United States

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All things come round to him who will but wait.

Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863)

A town that boasts inhabitants like me
Can have no lack of good society.

Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863)

Listen, my children, and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,
On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five;
Hardly a man is now alive
Who remembers that famous day and year.

Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863)

Thinking the deed, and not the creed,
Would help us in our utmost need.

Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863)

His form was ponderous, and his step was slow;
There never was so wise a man before;
He seemed the incarnate "Well, I told you so!"

Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863)

Stronger than steel is the sword of the Spirit;
Swifter than arrows, the light of the truth;
Greater than anger is love that subdueth.

Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863)

At all feasts where ale was strongest
Sat the merry monarch longest,
First to come and last to go.

Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863)

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

Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863)

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

Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863)

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.

Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863)

Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing,
Only a signal shown and a distant voice in the darkness;
So on the ocean of life we pass and speak one another,
Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863)

Moons waxed and waned, the lilacs bloomed and died,
In the broad river ebbed and flowed the tide,
Ships went to sea, and ships came home from sea,
And the slow years sailed by and ceased to be.

Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.