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Page 243 - Who would have thought the old man had so much blood in him...
Page 421 - Sleep sweetly, tender heart, in peace : Sleep, holy spirit, blessed soul, While the stars burn, the moons increase, And the great ages onward roll. Sleep till the end, true soul and sweet. Nothing comes to thee new or strange. Sleep full of rest from head to feet ; Lie still, dry dust, secure of change.
Page 284 - March 30. Wrote the poem ; and am rather pleased with it, and with the bringing in of the two lines of the old Lapland song, A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.
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Page 273 - I have at length hit upon a plan for a poem on the American Indians, which seems to me the right one and the only. It is to weave together their beautiful traditions into a whole. I have hit upon a measure, too, which I think the right and only one for such a theme.
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Page 248 - In weariness of spirit and despair of writing anything original, I turned again, to-day, to dear old Dante, and resumed my translation of the Purgatorio where I left it in 1843. I find great delight in the work. It diffused its benediction through the day.
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| Title | Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: With Extracts from His Journals and Correspondence, Volume 2 Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: With Extracts from His Journals and Correspondence, Samuel Longfellow |
| Editor | Samuel Longfellow |
| Publisher | Houghton, Mifflin, 1891 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 20 Nov 2007 |
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