Poetry and Quotes - NHS Class of 1962 Website
~ Home ~
Where we love is home.
Home that our feet may leave
but not our hearts.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
And in the end, we come back to where we
began,
and recognize the place for the first time.
-T. S. Eliot (Thomas Stearns Eliot),
American poet, critic and playwright 1888 - 1965
There are years when nothing happens and
years in which centuries happen.
-Carlos Fuentes
Memory is the power to gather roses in winter.
-Anonymous
The ornament of a house is the friends who
frequent it.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Words are the voice of the heart.
-Confucius
Only from the heart can you reach the
sky.
-Rumi
I expect to pass through this world but once;
any good thing ...that I can do,
or
any kindness that I can show to
any fellow creature, let me do it now; ...
for
I shall not pass this way again.
-author unknown
~ History of NHS ~
For the structure that we raise,
Time is with materials filled
Our to-days and yesterdays
Are the blocks with which we build.
-H. W. Longfellow -The Builders
American poet and scholar 1807 - 1882
Well I know the secret places,
and the nests in hedge and tree;
At what door are friendly faces,
In what hearts are thoughts of me.
-H. W. Longfellow -The Bridge of Cloud
American poet and scholar 1807 - 1882
~ Reunion News ~
Welcome
Merry have we met and,
Merry have we been,
Merry let us part,
Merry meet again!
5th
Heart of youth and
summer weather
Making all their holiday.
Longfellow -The Wind Over the Chimney
American poet and scholar 1807 - 1882
Fall seven
times, stand up eight!
-Japanese Proverb
When I was a
boy of fourteen, my father
was so ignorant I could hardly
stand to have the old man around.
But when I got to be twenty-one,
I was astounded at how much
he had learned in seven years.
-Mark Twain
10th
Enjoy thy youth,
it will not stay,
Enjoy the fragrance of thy prime,
For O! it is not always May!
Longfellow -It is not Always May!
American poet and scholar 1807 - 1882
Youth comes but once in
a lifetime.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
25th
The sunshine the
delicious
air,
The fragrance of the flowers, were there.
-H. W. Longfellow -The Golden Legend
-1851
American poet and scholar 1807 - 1882
Live each
season as it passes;
breath the air; drink the drink;
taste the fruit; and resign yourself
to the influences of each.
-Henry David Thoreau
40th
To me you will never
grow old
But live for ever young in my remembrance.
-H. W. Longfellow -The Seaside
and the Fireside -1849
American poet and scholar 1807 - 1882
There will be time, there
will be time
To prepare a face to meet the faces that you meet.
- T. S. Eliot
-The
Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
American poet, critic and playwright 1888 - 1965
50th
Look not mournfully into the past.
It comes not back again,
Wisely improve the present.
It is thine.
-H. W. Longfellow
-Hyperion
American poet and scholar 1807 - 1882
As a white candle in a holy
place
so is the beauty of an aged face.
-Joseph Campbell
There are faces I
can never look upon
without emotion.
There are names I can never hear spoken
without almost starting.
-H. W. Longfellow -Hyperion
~ Jukebox ~
Music is the
universal language of mankind.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
American poet and scholar 1807 - 1882
Take a music bath once or
twice a week for a few seasons,
and you will find that
it is to the soul what
a water bath is to the body.
-Oliver Wendell Holmes
Lawyer & Physician, 1809 - 1894
Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
-Thomas Carlyle
~ Cars ~
To become a real boy you must prove
yourself brave, truthful, and unselfish.
from "Pinnochio"
~ Clothes ~
The one thing I do not want
to be called is First Lady;
it sounds like a saddle horse.
- Jacqueline Kennedy
~ Senior Trip ~
3 ways of saying it...
Cherish
Yesterday, Live Today,
Dream Tomorrow
Heal the past, Live the present, Dream the Future
Learn from
yesterday, Live for today, Hope for tomorrow.
Always do sober
what you said you'd do drunk.
That will teach you to keep your mouth shut.
-Ernest Hemingway
~ Prom Night ~
"On with the dance, let joy be unconfined!"
is my motto, whether there's any dance to dance or joy to unconfine!
-Mark Twain
~ Booster Day ~
Then came the wild weather, come sleet or come snow;
We will stand by each other, however it blow.
Longfellow -Annie of Tharaw
Practice is best of all instructors.
-Publilius Syrus
In union,
there is strength.
-Aesop
Why not go out on a limb?
That's where the fruit is.
-Mark Twain
Losers
visualize the penalties of failure
Winners visualize the rewards of success.
-Dr. Rob Gilbert
Childhood shows the man,
as morning shows the day.
-John Milton
~ Home Room ~
Home is where one starts from.
There's no place like home.
The
Pledge of Allegiance
I pledge Allegiance to the flag,
of the United States of America,
and to the Republic, for which it stands,
one nation under God, indivisible,
with Liberty, and Justice for all.
One country, one constitution, one
destiny.
-Daniel Webster
School days, school days, dear old
golden rule days!
Treat your friends as you do your
pictures,
and place them in their best light.
-Jennie Jerome Churchill
Friends are the family you choose for yourself.
-Edna Buchanan
Let us be grateful to people who make us happy;
They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.
-Marcel Proust
It takes a long time to grow an
old friend!
A friend is someone who knows all
about you but loves you anyway.
-Anon.
Little moments add up to the
friendship of a lifetime.
Friendship need no Reason!
-Ibycus
Ah! How good it feels - the
hand of an old friend.
-Longfellow
To know someone here or
there
with whom you can feel there is
understanding in spite of distances
or thought unexpressed -
That can make this life a garden.
-Goethe
~ Email Group ~
Left, Post Office in 1907, ten years later, letters would be sent to the 771
soldiers
from Northampton who were sent in 1917-1918 to World War I, of whom 26 died*.
Right, the Mural that hung in the Post Office*.
*Source: Official Program, Tercentenary Celebration, Northampton, Massachusetts,
June 13-20, 1954, p. 19 & 79.
~ In Memoriam ~
This road is but a rugged road which
leads
Us to the bright abode of peace above.
-H. W. Longfellow -Coplas
de Manrique
American poet and scholar 1807 - 1882
Love Me Now
If you are ever going to love me,
Love me now, while I can know
The sweet and tender feelings,
Which from true affection flow.
Love me now
While I am living.
Do not wait until I'm gone
And then have it chiseled in marble,
Sweet words on ice-cold stone.
If you have tender thoughts of me,
Please tell me now.
If you wait until I'm sleeping,
Never to awaken,
There will be death between us,
And I won't hear you then.
So, if you love me, even a little bit,
Let me know it while I am living
So I can treasure it.
-Author unknown
The grave itself is
but a covered bridge
Leading from light to light through a brief darkness.
-H. W. Longfellow -
The Golden Legend -1851
American poet and scholar 1807 - 1882
The Song of the River
The snow melts on the mountain
And the water runs down to the spring,
And the spring in a turbulent fountain,
With a song of youth to sing,
Runs down to the riotous river,
And the river flows to the sea,
And the water again
Goes back in rain
To the hills where it used to be.
And I wonder if life's deep mystery
Isn't much like the rain and the snow
Returning through all eternity
To the places it used to know.
For life was born on the lofty heights
And flow in a laughing stream,
To the river below
Whose onward flow
Ends in a peaceful dream.
And so at last,
When our life has passed
And the river has run its course,
It again goes back,
O'er the selfsame track,
To the mountain which was its source.
So why prize life
Or why fear death,
Or dread what is to be?
The river ran
Its allotted span
Till it reached the silent sea.
Then the water harked back
To the mountain-top
To begin its course once more.
So we shall run
The course begun
Till we reach the silent shore.
Then revisit earth
In a pure rebirth
From the heart of the virgin snow.
So don't ask why
We live or die,
Or whither, or when we go
Or wonder about the mysteries
That only God may know.
-William Randolph
Hearst
~ The Lost ~
I breathed a song
into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For who has sight so keen and strong,
That it can follow the flight of a song?
* * * * * * *
The song from beginning to end
I found again in the heart of a friend.
-H. W. Longfellow
-The Arrow and the Song -1845
American poet and scholar 1807 - 1882
~ Graduation ~
Thou openest the mysterious gate
Into the future's undiscovered land.
-H. W. Longfellow -To a Child
"Come to the edge," he said.
They said, "We are afraid."
"Come to the edge," he said.
They came.
He pushed them... And they flew.
All things rejoice in youth and love,
The fullness of their first delight.
-H. W. Longfellow -It is not Always May
American poet and scholar 1807 - 1882
~ Faculty ~
The mediocre teacher tells.
The good teacher explains.
The superior teacher demonstrates.
The great teacher inspires.
-William Arthur Ward 1921 - 1994
American college administrator
Fame only comes when deserved, and
then it is
as inevitable as destiny, for it is destiny.
-H. W. Longfellow
-Hyperion
American poet and scholar 1807 - 1882
The mind
of the scholar if you would have
it large and liberal, should come in contact with other minds.
-H. W. Longfellow -Hyperion
American poet and scholar 1807 - 1882
Have I ever tell you you're my hero?
You're everything, I would like to be.
Oh, I can climb higher than an eagle,
For you are the wind beneath my wings.
You are the wind beneath my wings.
Lyrics by Larry Henley & Jeff
Silbar,
from movie Beaches with Bette Midler.
~ Tell them now ~
There is always one moment in childhood
When the door opens and lets the future in.
-Graham Greene
"This above all: to thine own self
be true,
And it must follow, as the night the day,
Thou canst not then be false to
any man."
William Shakespeare -Hamlet
You can never learn less, you can only
learn more.
-R. Buckminster Fuller
If you have knowledge let others light
their candles by it.
To teach is to learn twice.
-Joseph Joubert
The art of teaching is the art of assisting
discovery.
- Mark VanDoren
We make a living by what we get, but we
make a life by what we give.
-Sir Winston Churchill
Wisdom begins in wonder.
-Socrates
Nurture your mind with great thoughts.
-Benjamin Disraeli
Most folks are about as happy as they make
up their minds to be.
-Abraham Lincoln
The love of learning the sequestered nooks,
and all the sweet serenity of books.
-Longfellow
Silently,
one by one
in the infinite
meadows
of
Heaven,
blossomed the
lovely stars,
the
forget-me-nots
of
angels
-Longfellow
To
Imagine is Everything
To Know is Nothing at All
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
-Albert Einstein
Disclaimer: If you have knowledge of any author
who is quoted here but is not credited, I would be pleased to credit them.
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