Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Yet at their best, they are sometimes pungent and telling, as where he says, " When looking for anything lost, begin by looking where you think it is not ; " or, " Silence is a great peace-maker ; " or, " In youth all doors open outward ; in old age they all open inward, " or, more thoughtfully, " Amusements are like specie payments. We do not much care for them, if we know we can have them ; but we like to know they may be had, " or more profoundly still, " How often it happens that after we k...now a man personally, we cease to read his writings. Is it that we exhaust him by a look ? Is it that his person- ality gives us all of him we desire ? " There are also included among these passages some thoroughly poetic touches, as where he says, " The spring came suddenly, bursting upon the world as a child bursts into a room, with a laugh and a shout, and hands full of flowers. " Or this, " How sudden and sweet are the visitations of our happiest thoughts ; what delightful sur- prises ! In the midst of life's most trivial LONGFELLOW AS A POET 275 occupations, as when we are reading a news- paper, or lighting a bed-candle, or waiting for our horses to drive round, the lovely face appears, and thoughts more precious than gold are whispered in our ear.
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Yet at their best, they are sometimes pungent and telling, as where he says, " When looking for anything lost, begin by looking where you think it is not ; " or, " Silence is a great peace-maker ; " or, " In youth all doors open outward ; in old age they all open inward, " or, more thoughtfully, " Amusements are like specie payments. We do not much care for them, if we know we can have them ; but we like to know they may be had, " or more profoundly still, " How often it happens that after we k...now a man personally, we cease to read his writings. Is it that we exhaust him by a look ? Is it that his person- ality gives us all of him we desire ? " There are also included among these passages some thoroughly poetic touches, as where he says, " The spring came suddenly, bursting upon the world as a child bursts into a room, with a laugh and a shout, and hands full of flowers. " Or this, " How sudden and sweet are the visitations of our happiest thoughts ; what delightful sur- prises ! In the midst of life's most trivial LONGFELLOW AS A POET 275 occupations, as when we are reading a news- paper, or lighting a bed-candle, or waiting for our horses to drive round, the lovely face appears, and thoughts more precious than gold are whispered in our ear.
What to read after Henry Wadsworth Longfellow?
You can find similar books in the "Read Also" column, or choose other free books by Higginson Thomas Wentworth to read onlineMoreLess
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