Awake! arise! the hour is late!
Angels are knocking at thy door!
They are in haste and cannot wait,
And once departed come no more.

Awake! arise! the athlete's arm
Loses its strength by too much rest;
The fallow land, the untilled farm
Produces only weeds at best.

(C) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
03/24/2017


Best Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• Excelsior
• Aftermath
• To The River Rhone
• The Builders
• Il Ponte Vecchio Di Firenze
• The Ladder Of St. Augustine
• A Fragment
• The Wreck Of The Hesperus
• By The Seaside : Twilight
• In The Harbour: Auf Wiedersehen
• Hiawathas Fishing
• Changed
• Dirge Over A Nameless Grave
• The Bridge
• The Old Clock On The Stairs
• The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls
• Hiawathas Friends
• The Demoniac Of Gadara
• The Meeting
• Hiawathas Sailing
• Hiawathas Hunting