Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
In what a forge and what a heat were shaped the anchors of thy hope! Fear not each sudden sound and shock; 'Tis of the wave and not the rock.
Citations
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "The Building of the Ship." The Seaside and the Fireside, Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1850, p. 40.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet and educator whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride", The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. He was the first American to translate Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy and was one of the Fireside Poets from New England.