Northampton High School Class of 1962, Northampton, Hampshire County, Massachusetts, USA

 

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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