And the night shall be filled with music,
And the cares, that infest the day,
Shall fold their tents like the Arabs,
and silently steal away.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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And the night shall be filled with music, and the cares, that infest the day, shall fold their tents...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW And the night shall be filled with music
And the cares, that infest the day,
Shall fold their ...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES The Day is Done
The day is done, and the darkness
Falls from the wings of Nig...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW How clear, how lovely bright,
How beautiful to sight
Those beams of morning play;
Ho...
A.E. HOUSMAN From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remembered-
We few, we hap...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I am
the sun and moon and forever hungry
the sharpened edge
where day and night shall...
AUDRE LORDE Beasts of England, beasts of Ireland,
Beasts of every land and clime,
Hearken to my joyful...
GEORGE ORWELL It cometh into court and pleads the cause
Of creatures dumb and unknown to the laws;
And this ...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The King beneath the mountains,
The King of carven stone,
The lord of silver fountains
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And there are many paths to tread
Through shadows to the ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Let the first act of every morning be to make the following resolve for the day:
- I shal...
MAHATMA GANDHI If today is not your day,
then be happy
for this day shall never return.
And if to...
KAMAND KOJOURI The sparrows chirped as if they still were proud
Their race in Holy Writ should mentioned be.
...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW To-day I shall be strong,
No more shall yield to wrong,
Shall squander life no more;
...
A.E. HOUSMAN And now the measure of my song is done:
The work has reached its end; the book is mine,
...
OVID Love for the beauty of the soul.
I shall love you always.
When the flower of life has go...
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Blessed are they that mour...
ANONYMOUS We have tears in our eyes
As we wave our goodbyes,
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A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN At evening when the lamp is lit,
The tired Human People sit
And doze, or turn with solemn ...
OLIVER HERFORD And when you crush an apple with your teeth, say to it in your heart:
Your seeds shall li...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Oh! snatched away in beauty's bloom,
On thee shall press no ponderous tomb;
But on thy turf ...
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I reached out my han...
SUSANNA CLARKE Those that Hobgoblin call you and sweet Puck,
You do their work, and they shall have good luck:...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE For want of me the world's course will not fail:
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When her Cat was past relief?
Who shall number the hot tea...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI The veil that clouds your eyes shall be lifted by the hands that wove it, And the clay that fills yo...
KAHLIL GIBRAN Stop this day and night with me and you shall possess the origin of all poems,
You shall posses...
WALT WHITMAN Good night! Good night!
Far flies the light;
But still God's love
Shall shine above,<...
VICTOR HUGO Never shall I forget that night, the first night in camp, that turned my life into one long night se...
ELIE WIESEL When we get out of the glass bottles of our ego,
and when we escape like squirrels turning in t...
D.H. LAWRENCE Come, gentle night; come, loving, black-browed night;
Give me my Romeo; and, when I shall die,<...
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Out of the nothingness of sleep,
The slow dreams of Eternity,
There wa...
RUPERT BROOKE I shall now call myself;
I shall now call.
In the forest of my heart, seeing myself,
...
SRI CHINMOY I shall desire and I shall find
The best of my desires;
The autumn road, the mellow wind
Th...
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HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Truth
And if sun comes
How shall we greet him?
Shall we not dread him,...
GWENDOLYN BROOKS When he shall die,
Take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE He who leads
Must then be strong and hopeful as the dawn
That rises unafraid and full of joy<...
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In this long war beneath the stars;
So shall a glory wreat...
JOHN EDWARD MASEFIELD Oh, oh, you will be sorry for that word!
Give back my book and take my kiss instead.
Was it m...
EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY I WANT her though, to take the same from me.
She touches me as if I were herself, her own.
D.H. LAWRENCE Fare well we call to hearth and hall
Though wind may blow and rain may fall
We must away e...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Not marble nor the gilded monuments
Of princes, shall outlive this powerful rhyme,
But you...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE I am a creature of the Fey
Prepare to give your soul away
My spell is passion and it is ...
HEATHER ALEXANDER Hard Wind
Sister with iron hooves
Together we shall travel steppes
that no man nor mo...
GREG KEYES Love me, beloved; Hades and Death
Shall vanish away like a frosty breath;
These hands, tha...
GEORGE MACDONALD In that last dance of chances
I shall partner you no more.
I shall watch anoth...
ROBIN HOBB The holiest of all holidays are those Kept by ourselves in silence and apart, The secret anniversari...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Refrain to-night;
And that shall lend a kind of easiness
To the next abstinence, the next ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE Beauty was darkness till she came.
Then paint her eyes, whose active light
Shall make the fo...
JAMES SHIRLEY When by the Ruins oft I past
My sorrowing eyes aside did cast
And here and there the places s...
ANNE DUDLEY BRADSTREET I shall not dwell in the past...
I shall not dread the present...
I shall not fear the Fut...
OSCAR TREJO JR. Perhaps ...
To R.A.L.
Perhaps some day the sun will shine again,
And I shall s...
VERA BRITTAIN I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We...
MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. The Hero Path
We have not even to risk the adventure alone
for the heroes of ...
JOSEPH CAMPBELL Who cares about tomorrow?
What more is tomorrow,
than another day?
(-The Avett Brothe...
COLLEEN HOOVER But fame is theirs - and future days
On pillar'd brass shall tell their praise;
Shall tell - w...
PHILIP FRENEAU Let the dream go. Are there not other dreams
In vastness of clouds hid from thy sight
That yet...
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX Here comes Monseiur Le Beau.
Rosalind: With his mouth full of news.
Celia: Which he will p...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE But first whom shall we send
In search of this new world, whom shall we find
Sufficient? W...
JOHN MILTON Penelope
In the pathway of the sun,
In the footsteps of the breeze,
Where the...
DOROTHY PARKER And who shall separate the dust
What later we shall be:
Whose keen discerning eye will scan GEORGIA DOUGLAS JOHNSON Well, now
If little by little you stop loving me
I shall stop loving you
Little by li...
PABLO NERUDA I shall have peace, as leafy trees are peaceful
When rain bends down the bough;
And I sh...
SARA TEASDALE Others, I am not the first,
Have willed more mischief than they durst:
If in the breathles...
A.E. HOUSMAN Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright,
The bridal of the earth and sky;
The dew shall wee...
GEORGE HERBERT When I Am Dead, My Dearest
When I am dead, my dearest,
Sing no sad songs for...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI Gently - so have good men taught -
Gently, and without grief, the old shall glide
Into the new...
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT My featherbed is deep and soft,
and there I’ll lay you down,
I’ll dress you all in yel...
GEORGE R.R. MARTIN Age is opportunity no less
Than youth itself, though in another dress,
And as the evening tw...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW And Caesar's spirit, raging for revenge,
With Ate by his side come hot from hell,
Shall in...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall forfeit fair renown,
And, doubly dying, ...
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"Four be the things I am wiser to know:
Idleness, sorrow, a friend...
DOROTHY PARKER I Like For You To Be Still
I like for you to be still
It is as though you are...
PABLO NERUDA Lady of the silver moon
Enchantress of the night
Protect me and mine within this circle fa...
MADELYN ALT Love entered in my heart one day
A sad, unwelcome guest.
But when it begged that it might ...
J. CALIFORNIA COOPER Those who turn their faces away from the True Guru, are seen to be unfaithful and evil.They shall be...
ATHARVA VEDA Arise, arise, Riders of Théoden!
Fell deeds awake, fire and slaughter!
spear shall be sha...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN A Pause of Thought
I looked for that which is not, nor can be,
And hope defer...
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI For age is opportunity no less
Than youth itself, though in another dress,
And as the ev...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW When I am dead, and over me bright April
Shakes out her rain drenched hair,
Tho you should...
SARA TEASDALE So your flesh shall be part of mine
And part of mine be yours.
Brother and sister we shall b...
WILLIAM EMPSON Despite those titles, power, and pelf,
The wretch, concentred all in self,
Living, shall for...
SIR WALTER SCOTT Four be the things I am wiser to know:
Idleness, sorrow, a friend, and a foe.
Four be the th...
DOROTHY PARKER Tomorrow we shall meet,
Death and I -.
And he shall thrust his sword
Into one who is wide ...
DAG HAMMARSKJOLD This is the ending. Now not day only shall be beloved, but night too shall be beautiful and blessed ...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a woo...
ROBERT FROST Oh yet we trust that somehow good
Will be the final goal of ill,
To pangs of nature, sins ...
ALFRED TENNYSON It was because they were two parts of a whole. He did not belong to her. And she did not belong to h...
RENEE AHDIEH Cease with the displays of false modesty. The entire palace knows about it."
A feeling of warmt...
RENEE AHDIEH Do you know why I adore roses?" Shahrzad untied the knot of his tikka sash with deliberate slowness....
RENEE AHDIEH Where were you?" Shahrzad tried to control the tremor in her voice.
"Not where I should have b...
RENEE AHDIEH As always. As ever. As a rose to the sun.
RENEE AHDIEH Forever is a long long time and time has a way of changing things
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GARY F EVANS... I love you." she whispered into the rough wool of his sweater.
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...
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HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW There is not grief that does not speak.
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HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Great is the art of beginning, but greater is the art of ending.
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One who dwelleth by the castled Rhine,
When he ...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW An angel with a trumpet said,
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HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW See yonder little cloud, that, borne aloft
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Unto the Church's head, as the chief builder
And arch...
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The yellow crocus for the gem
O...
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Their old, familiar carols play,
And wild and sweet
T...
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Where the Babe was born,
Sang with many a change,
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Its banks, and o'er the meadow road
Is spreading far and wi...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The music of the brook silenced all conversation.
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...
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When the bridal party
To the church doth hie!
Bell, thou so...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW These bells have been anointed,
And baptized with holy water!
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They have tones that touch and search
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HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW He heard the convent bell,
Suddenly in the silence ringing
For the service of noonday.
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Of life's great city! on thy head
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HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW It was Autumn, and incessant
Piped the quails from shocks and sheaves,
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Is wedded unto thee, as hearts are wed;
Nor shall they fail, till...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was ...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW For thine own purpose, thou hast sent
The strife and the discouragement!
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The holiest of all holidays are those
Kept by ourselves in silence and apart;
The secret anniv...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW My Book and Heart
Shall never part.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Good-night! good-night! as we so oft have said
Beneath this roof at midnight, in the days
Th...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW So many ghosts, and forms of fright,
Have started from their graves to-night,
They have driven...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW But noble souls, through dust and heat,
Rise from disaster and defeat
The stronger.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Day of the Lord, as all our days should be!
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The bells themselves are the best of preachers,
Their brazen lips are learned teachers,
From t...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Oh, there is something in that voice that reaches
The innermost recesses of my spirit!
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW For after all, the best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Sculpture is more than painting. It is greater
To raise the dead to life than to create
Phant...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Feet that run on willing errands!
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW They sing, they will pay.
[Fr., Ils chantent, ils payeront.]
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Chill airs and wintry winds! my ear
Has grown familiar with your song;
I hear it in the openi...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Then from the neighboring thicket the mockingbird, wildest of
singers,
Swinging aloft on a willow...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Two ways the rivers
Leap down to different seas, and as they roll
Grow deep and still, and the...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Most people would succeed in small things if they were not
troubled with great ambitions.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW I love the season well
When forest glades are teeming with bright forms,
Nor dark and many-fol...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW There's a brave fellow! There's a man of pluck!
A man who's not afraid to say his say,
Though...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Even the blackest of them all, the crow,
Renders good service as your man-at-arms,
Crushing th...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW And the fireflies, Wah-wah-taysee,
Waved their torches to mislead him.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Thy voice
Is a celestial melody.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Ah, yes, the sea is still and deep,
All things within its bosom sleep!
A single step, and all ...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW I heard the bells on Christmas Day; their old familiar carols play, and wild and sweet the word repe...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW As turning the logs will make a dull fire burn, so changes of
studies a dull brain.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Since yesterday I have been in Alcala.
Erelong the time will come, sweet Preciosa,
When that d...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW What else remains for me?
Youth, hope and love;
To build a new life on a ruined life.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined;Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW World-wide apart, and yet akin,
As showing that the human heart
Beats on forever as of old.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The song-birds leave us at the summer's close,
Only the empty nests are left behind,
And pipin...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW And the night shall be filled with music
And the cares, that infest the day,
Shall fold their ...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW A feeling of sadness and longing,
That is not akin to pain,
And resembles sorrow only
As...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW There are moments in life, when the heart is so full of emotion That if by chance it be shaken, or i...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Multitudinous echoes awoke and died in the distance.
. . . .
And, when the echoes had ceased, ...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW 'Twas Easter-Sunday. The full-blossomed trees
Filled all the air with fragrance and with joy.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Art is the child of nature in whom we trace the features of the mothers face.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Feeling is deep and still; and the word that floats on the
surface
Is as the tossing buoy, that b...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW For there are moments in life, when the heart is so full of
emotion,
That if by chance it be shak...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The light upon her face
Shines from the windows of another world.
Saints only have such faces.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW These faces in the mirrors
Are but the shadows and phantoms of myself.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW A face that had a story to tell. How different faces are in this
particular! Some of them speak n...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Men as a whole judge more with their eyes than with their hands.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others
judge us by what we have already ...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Know how sublime a thing is to suffer and be strong.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, only a signal shown, and a distant vo...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Well has it been said that there is no grief like the grief which does not speak.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Lives of great men all remind us we can make our lives sublime. And, departing, leave behind us foo...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW None but yourself who are your greatest foe.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Darkness of slumber and death, forever sinking and sinking.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Merrily, merrily whirled the wheels of the dizzying dances
Under the orchard-trees and down the pa...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and i...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Look not mournfully into the past. It comes not back again. Wisely improve the present. It is thine....
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Day, like a weary pilgrim, had reached the western gate of
heaven, and Evening stooped down to unlo...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Give what you have. To someone, it may be better than you dare to think.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Man is always more than he can know of himself; consequently, his accomplishments, time and again, w...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW There is no grief like the grief that does not speak.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and i...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man's life sorrow and ...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when ...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Music is the universal language of mankind.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Intelligence and courtesy not always are combined; Often in a wooden house a golden room we find.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW I have an affection for a great city. I feel safe in the neighborhood of man, and enjoy the sweet se...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Joy, temperance, and repose, slam the door on the doctor's nose.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The talent of success is nothing more than doing what you can do well, and doing well whatever you d...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, fo...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The sky is filled with stars, invisible by day.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Morality without religion is only a kind of dead reckoning - an endeavor to find our place on a clou...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW