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Quotes from The Song of Hiawatha — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

1807–1882 United States

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11 quotes

Does not all the blood within me
Leap to meet thee, leap to meet thee,
As the springs to meet the sunshine.

The Song of Hiawatha (1855)

Love is sunshine, hate is shadow,
Life is checkered shade and sunshine.

The Song of Hiawatha (1855)

Sang in tones of deep emotion,
Songs of love and songs of longing.

The Song of Hiawatha (1855)

All your strength is in your union,
All your danger is in discord.

The Song of Hiawatha (1855)

He is dead, the sweet musician!
* * * *
He has moved a little nearer
To the Master of all music.

The Song of Hiawatha (1855)

Feet that run on willing errands!

The Song of Hiawatha (1855)

Rule by patience, Laughing Water!

The Song of Hiawatha (1855)

He the sweetest of all singers.

The Song of Hiawatha (1855)

As unto the bow the cord is,
So unto the man is woman;
Though she bonds him she obeys him,
Though she draws him, yet she follows,
Useless each without the other!

The Song of Hiawatha (1855)

Buried was the bloody hatchet;
Buried was the dreadful war-club;
Buried were all warlike weapons,
And the war-cry was forgotten.
Then was peace among the nations.

The Song of Hiawatha (1855)

Thus departed Hiawatha,
Hiawatha the Beloved,
In the glory of the sunset,
In the purple mists of evening,
To the regions of the home-wind,
Of the Northwest-Wind, Keewaydin,
To the Islands of the Blessed,
To the Kingdom of Ponemah,
To the Land of the Hereafter!

The Song of Hiawatha (1855)

Attribution

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