Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes


The day is dark and cold and dreary; it rains, and the wind is never weary.


Citations

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. Ballads and Other Poems. John Owen, 1842, p. 114.

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She was educated in Japan and was one of the earliest Chinese Nationalists, male or female. She was one of the charter members and one of the very few women who joined the Sun Yat Sen revolutionary party in 1904. She organized a military unit of 1000 under the cover of the school she was running. When Imperial troops discovered weapons at the school, she was arrested and tortured to find the names of the 1000 and their contacts who supplied them. This quotation is the only “confession” that she would give each time the torture was interrupted to give her an opportunity to confess and implicate the others. This was all she ever said despite the excruciating pain. Finally, when the Mandarin authorities could get nothing out of her and realized that she was becoming a hero by not talking, they beheaded her. Her words have come to symbolize great loyalty at personal sacrifice for a great cause.


Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  • Born: February 27, 1807
  • Died: March 24, 1882
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Poet

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.