Frases de Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow fue un poeta estadounidense que escribió trabajos que aún hoy siguen gozando de fama popular, entre los que están The Song of Hiawatha, Paul Revere's Ride y Évangéline. También escribió la primera traducción estadounidense de la Divina Comedia de Dante Alighieri y fue uno de los cinco miembros del grupo conocido como los Fireside Poets . Nació en Maine, vivió la mayor parte de su vida en Cambridge, Massachusetts, en una casa ocupada durante la Revolución Americana por el general George Washington y sus mandos.

✵ 27. febrero 1807 – 24. marzo 1882  •  Otros nombres Генри Уодсворт Лонгфелло, Longfello Genri Uodsuort
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Frases célebres de Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Frases y Citas

“La mayoría de la gente tendría éxito en las pequeñas cosas si no estuviera tan preocupada por grandes ambiciones.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Otra versión: "Mucha gente triunfaría en menudas cosas si no estuvieran perturbados con grandes ambiciones."

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Frases en inglés

“The leaves of memory seemed to make
A mournful rustling in the dark.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Fire of Drift-wood, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Though the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small;
Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Longfellow's translation of Friedrich von Logau, "Retribution", Sinngedichte III, 2, 24. http://www.kith.org/journals/jed/2002/05/21/452.html.

“A boy's will is the wind's will,
And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

My Lost Youth, refrain (1858), quoting Olaus Sirma
Fuente: The Complete Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“When she was good,
She was very good indeed,
But when she was bad she was horrid.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

There Was a Little Girl http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/1345.html<br>Often misquoted as &quot;When she was good/She was very, very good&quot;. <br class="br">Contexto: There was a little girl,<br>Who had a little curl,<br>Right in the middle of her forehead.<br>When she was good,<br>She was very good indeed,<br>But when she was bad she was horrid.

“Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow libro Voices of the Night

St. 4.
Cf. Andrew Marvell, Upon the Death of Lord Hastings (1649): "Art indeed is long, but life is short".
A Psalm of Life (1839)
Fuente: Voices of the Night

“For his heart was in his work, and the heart
Giveth grace unto every Art.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Building of the Ship

Fuente: The Building of the Ship (1849), Line 7.
Fuente: Hiawatha: The Story and Song

“What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers
May be heaven's distant lamps.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Resignation

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Resignation

“Time has laid his hand
Upon my heart, gently, not smiting it,
But as a harper lays his open palm
Upon his harp, to deaden its vibrations.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Golden Legend http://www.gutenberg.org/files/10490/10490-h/10490-h.htm, Pt. IV, The Cloisters (1872).

“God had sifted three kingdoms to find the wheat for this planting.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Courtship of Miles Standish

Part IV.
The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858)

“All things come round to him who will but wait.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Tales of a Wayside Inn

Pt. I, The Student's Tale.
Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863-1874)

“Oh, fear not in a world like this,
And thou shalt know erelong,—
Know how sublime a thing it is
To suffer and be strong.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Light of Stars

The Light of Stars, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“There is no greater sorrow
Than to be mindful of the happy time
In misery.”

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Inferno, canto v, line 121.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)

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