Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Berühmte Zitate
„Lern zu arbeiten und zu warten.“
Ein Psalm des Lebens
Original engl.: "Learn to labour and to wait." - Poets http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16614 (Stand 18.08.2007))
Ein Psalm des Lebens. Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, Band 19, Braunschweig 1856, S. 205 books.google http://books.google.de/books?id=VmAVAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA205&dq=trau
Original engl.: "Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant! // Let the dead Past bury its dead! // Act -- act in the living Present! // Heart within, and God o'erhead!" - Poets http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16614 (Stand 18.08.2007)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Zitate auf Englisch
“From the water-fall he named her,
Minnehaha, Laughing Water.”
Pt. IV, Hiawatha and Mudjekeewis, st. 33.
The Song of Hiawatha (1855)
Holidays http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/longfellow/19219 (1878).
“He speaketh not; and yet there lies
A conversation in his eyes.”
The Hanging of the Crane.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
The Castle-builder.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Pt. III, Hiawatha’s Childhood, st. 8.
The Song of Hiawatha (1855)
“When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.”
Part I, section 1.
Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie (1847)
“Oh the long and dreary Winter!
Oh the cold and cruel Winter!”
Pt. XX.
The Song of Hiawatha (1855)
“O thou child of many prayers!
Life hath quicksands; life hath snares!”
Maidenhood http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/longfellow/12212, st. 9 (1842).
Part I, section 1.
Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie (1847)
“He has singed the beard of the king of Spain.”
The Dutch Picture, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“And in the wreck of noble lives
Something immortal still survives.”
Quelle: The Building of the Ship (1849), Lines 375-376.
Pt. I, The Landlord's Tale: Paul Revere's Ride, st. 2.
Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863-1874)
“Hospitality sitting with Gladness.”
Translation from Frithiof's Saga.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“He is a little chimney and heated hot in a moment.”
Part VI
The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858)
“And suddenly through the drifting brume
The blare of the horns began to ring.”
King Olaf's War-Horns, st. 2.
Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863-1874)
Quelle: The Building of the Ship (1849), Lines 1-4.
“But oftentimes celestial benedictions
Assume this dark disguise.”
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919), Resignation
Kéramos http://www.worldwideschool.org/library/books/lit/poetry/TheCompletePoeticalWorksofHenryWadsworthLongfellow/chap22.html, st. 9 (1878).
Quelle: The Building of the Ship (1849), Lines 349-354.
