The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (A Selection)
From the Sinngedichte of Friedrice Von Logau.
Seventeenth century
Whereunto is money good?
Who has it not wants hardihood,
Who has it has much trouble and care,
Who once has had it has despair.
THE BEST MEDICINES
Joy and Temperance and Repose
Slam the door on the doctor's nose.
SIN
Man-like is it to fall into sin,
Fiend-like is it to dwell therein,
Christ-like is it for sin to grieve,
God-like is it all sin to leave.
POVERTY AND BLINDNESS
A blind man is a poor man, and blind
A poor man is;
For the former seeth no man, and the
latter no man sees.
LAW OF LIFE
Live I, so live I,
To my Lord heartily,
To my Prince faithfully,
To my Neighbor honestly,
Die I, so die I.
CREEDS
Lutheran, Popish, Calvinistic, all these
creeds and doctrines three
Extant are; but still the doubt is, where
Christianity may be.
THE RESTLESS HEART
A millstone and the human heart are
driven ever round;
If they have nothing else to grind, they
must themselves be ground.
CHRISTIAN LOVE
Whilom Love was like a fire, and
warmth and comfort it bespoke;
But, alas! it now is quenched, and only
bites us, like the smoke.
ART AND TACT
Intelligence and courtesy not always
are combined;
Often in a wooden house a golden room
we find.
RETRIBUTION
Though the mills of God grind slowly,
yet they grind exceeding small;
Though with patience he stands waiting,
with exactness grinds he all.
TRUTH
When by night the frogs are croaking,
kindle but a torch's fire,
Ha! how soon they are all silent! Thus
Truth silences the liar.
RHYMES
If perhaps these rhymes of mine should
sound not well in strangers' ears,
They have only to bethink them that it
happens so with theirs;
For so long as words, like mortals, call
a fatherland their own,
They will be most highly valued where
they are best and longest known.
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