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Quotes from The Spanish Student — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

1807–1882 United States

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11 quotes

There's nothing in this world so sweet as love,
And next to love the sweetest thing is hate!

The Spanish Student (1843)

Fortune comes well to all that comes not late.

The Spanish Student (1843)

Love keeps the cold out better than a cloak.
It serves for food and raiment.

The Spanish Student (1843)

I love thee, as the good love heaven.

The Spanish Student (1843)

Like a fair lily on a river floating
She floats upon the river of his thoughts.

The Spanish Student (1843)

And the bright faces of my young companions
Are wrinkled like my own, or are no more.

The Spanish Student (1843)

'Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees
Filled all the air with fragrance and with joy.

The Spanish Student (1843)

Is this is a dream? O, if it be a dream,
Let me sleep on, and do not wake me yet!

The Spanish Student (1843)

All the means of action —
The shapeless masses, the materials —
Lie everywhere about us. What we need
Is the celestial fire to change the flint
Into transparent crystal, bright and clear.
That fire is genius!

The Spanish Student (1843)

Since yesterday I have been in Alcalá.
Erelong the time will come, sweet Preciosa,
When that dull distance shall no more divide us;
And I no more shall scale thy wall by night
To steal a kiss from thee, as I do now.

The Spanish Student (1843)

That was the first sound in the song of love!
Scarce more than silence is, and yet a sound.
Hands of invisible spirits touch the strings
Of that mysterious instrument, the soul,
And play the prelude of our fate. We hear
The voice prophetic, and are not alone.

The Spanish Student (1843)

Attribution

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