A Psalm of Life - H. W. Longfellow (Powerful Life Poetry) 

My wife and I are separated right now and this channel has really helped me stay strong through it all. Some of these poems really put suffering into perspective for me. My wife initiated this separation and we have 3 young kids in the house that I am having to spend time away from. There has been no infidelity, abuse, or addiction issues. It's simply me not being the husband that I am capable of being. That's tough to deal with, but it isn't unique, and it isn't the worst thing that could happen. We're going to counseling and she is still hanging on to hope that we can make it through. I've been working on my end (as much as I can without being there) but I have a hard time managing my emotions when I don't see results, but the last line of this poem has really helped me to keep focus: "Learn to labor, and to wait."

God bless the ppl who are reading these poetrys and to RedFrost

Imagine if this, as well as other thought provoking masterpieces, were dissected and discussed in all schools. Empowered, encouraged and enthusiastic graduates for sure.

His footprints have helped me take heart again

I read this poem when i was 15.i am 65 today.still i remember the poem and the impact it had on me.🥰❤💯

One of the most powerful and evocative recitals that I have ever heard in my life. Each time I listen to this piece, it helps me acknowledge the fact that life is a stormy sea and we must sail through the violence of the natural elements until we reach our shores.

I have been listening to this almost every morning for the last 3 months

This poem hits me in a way no other poem can..

Art is timeless still relevant during our turbulent times.

Tom O'Bedlam is the best orator on YT.

"Trust no Future, howe’er pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead! Act,- act in the living Present! Heart within, and God o’erhead!" WOW!

God bless the creators of this poetries, this channel and those who narrated with much passion as if they had and we're living each word of it. Thank you so much

Be not like dumb driven cattle Be a hero in the strife.

That was great, and brought me to tears.

💪🤗👍Stay strong my fellow humans, the storms will pass and life will be sweeter than ever before!🌎

What a profound mind, words to live by today.

YES!!! LIVE LIFE TO THE FULLEST!!! You guys got this...always progressing towards a full life🔥🔥🤘🤘

I am amazed at how many quotes I knew from this piece never knowing they were all from the same poem! Wonderful voice of the reader, too. Perfection.

Beautifully read and arranged. I have put verses 1-3 to melody and piano and am getting ready to render the remaining verses. The beauty of this poem lies in the way that it builds and expands outward into the sands of time as it nears completion. It begins with the reality of mortality and our finiteness then opens up into the vastness of existence and our connection with each other. I have been inspired and brought out of darkness so many times by the words of our ancestors, and am so grateful to count Longfellow as one of those voices. My hope is that my arrangement of this lyrical piece can also inspire some future shipwrecked brother or sister. Good stuff.

One of my most favourite poems of all time.....really sublime and serene.....most inspiring !!!

Wonderful I love Longfellow I know poems well he was always an amazing poet. Thank you spirit. Ahhh and be happy

This poem should be mandatory for memorization!

These gentlemen knew something we do not know. What a blueprint to live life by. I feel sorry for the future generations that want to destroy the past...

The Heights of Great Men Reached and kept were not attained in sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night

Learn to labour and to wait. Loved this concluding line.

This is the reader from the "Spoken Word" channel! I haven't heard his poems or voice for ages!

I taught this beautiful poetry for std 12 , God is always over us keep going and have patience all troubles will pass away keep up the strength from within hearts ♥️👌♥️

Best of all poems that i studied till date.

Turn up the music. I could almost hear the narrator.

I really like poems. I love this poems .....from Fort Worth, Texas

This pome not only a composition, rather a power booster which touches the heart and opens the mind. A psalm of life.

Lovely, meaningful, soulful and inspirational ✌️🙏

Great words

...Can you hear that? ...Well? Can you hear it? ...Please, tell me you can hear it. ...it’s the Hum! Do you know what that Hum is? ...It’s your courage to come. Know that there is no challenge that we cannot overcome. We shall win...and we shall do it with courage. every crum. The Hum - hums ahead of our hearts, shielding all precious to soul. The Hum of our hearts...that song, the hymn of courage, of strength, confidence, has come, and doubters of courage and discouragers are dumb, and if you doubt what you have, if you do doubt each starry crumb of your courage beating, singing, burning and humming within you, then you will remain glum. A courageless heart is a soul numb. Now let this world be our fearless drum, for courage and its rise; it’s time for us to remove our conformity-disguise. From courageous fire rising over our hearts - we - the matchless - shall beat the ordinary enemy, for fear is no competition to the Hum to drum the world. All threats, great...small, past, present and future - we have, we can...we will overcome; we will overcome all fear, every enemy, each obstacle, every and each challenge, and we will do it with courage. We are the hum... the only hum to drum this world. So everybody listen. listen to your hum...hear the hum of others. It’s there...always there, and it never goes, can never die...the hum is always passed on. Del Winterbottom

Longfellow has a way of setting The Human Condition into a melody of poetry.

That was prophetic poem, they were warning us then , powerful and so apropos!!

Wonderful words, beautifully read, a perfect choice the the times we're living in🙏Know it well, but a great reminder and lovely to hear again. Thank you for posting🙏💖💖

Still need to hear it ,even though I have read it so many times.💖

What a beautiful poem well read. Why so many dislikes.

This poem is life 👏👏

I felt this one painfully deep in my chest. Thank you.

LIFE IS REAL!! light it up and lets watch greatness burn!!🔥❤🔥 big love from another youtuber

Breathless.

So powerful

Thank you all brave souls! Awake and walk in the newness of present LIFE!

Our Soul (How/who we we’re) is in the minds’ memories of who knew us! THATS how we are immortal.. besides our dust gens will always be around somewhere/somehow on this our earth we are from and off.. My (and not only my) thoughts on life!💫🌹❣️

Thank you.

Myself believing in stoic philosophy, this poem embodies everything I believe.

My life is not perfect, but I live it not for my self alone but for all who are doubting their lives. Let us work together for the welfare of everyone. God bless us all.

Be a hero!❤️🕊️🌼🙂

Yesterday is history! Tomorrow’s a mystery! Live your best life, right now!

I am loving all of these audio/video's here. Thank YOU AMAZING

Outstanding and inspirin! Poetry is more enlighting and mind-soothing than beliefs. Cheers.

At 1:19, the slide says "Let the DEAD past bury its dead!", but the audio is actually "Let the past bury it's dead!", without the first Dead. Beyond that, a remarkable poem and music, thank you for putting it up.

Am listening to this on repeat to so I remember every word

Awesome n ❤️ rendering ... !

All I know is I know nothing. - Socrates

The greatest poem captured by the english language.

Having never seen a picture of him, this is what Adriano looks like in my head every morning...

Signum Regis song brought me here. Didn't know was taken from this poem till now. Amazing!

YOUR VOICE REALLY CAPTIVATED ME . GOD BLESS YOU

Iam from bangladesh I had read his this poem it,s inspire me be a king be a winer

When you cry, the soul of the universe freezes in dark The flowers stop breathing in the heartache of the park; And the trees get scared, their throats go dry and -leaves -they start to loose, In agony of the moment- the rivers through your tears - find a distant use... Everything goes silent when you cry my little girl, everything keeps mum The ocean loses the greed of the waves and their melody of drums! The eagles break the flight for their wings ache wholly The wind’s war with itself gets silly, empty, lonely... When you cry, sky’s eternity turns into massive chains And every tear of yours envenoms the earth’s vains! Like lost treasures of history -When tears roll down your face, Makes God look in the mirror and doubt her own grace! Because when you cry my little girl, the soul of existence cries too The white flag of hope becomes blue like you, the dreams become illusions,the reality transforms into jail; The wide roads turn into narrow paths of the same direction, And the mirror shows nothing more but a reflection! Because when you cry, everything looks at you and asks itself “why?” ...

Learn to labour, learn to wait - words to live by.

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, is our destined end or way, But to act, that each tomorrow find us farther than today 🙏🏼🧘🏻‍♂️🤯

Yes yes yes 🥰

Sir, sir, ... I want to cry while I listen to your voice I want to laugh while I listen to your words, music ... Sir, sir ... I want to love you.... let me... Love you. 💝🤗🎓🙏🎩👏

Beautiful

Good old battle cry for the soul! What happened to humanity? We grew soft and reckless

Those two wings that I can not live without have been your own lord God

I’m kind of crying right now. Sniff

I, am 50 years old. I know most of the words used in the English language , but never could I put them like this

" Labor and wait " truth lived .

this was great! thank you Tom O'bedlam!

The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained in sudden flight, But they, While their companions slept, Were toiling upwards in the night. by H. W. Longfellow

At a yard sale I paused at the sight of words "tell me not in mournful numbers life is but an empty dream...." The sound of this stopped me cold.. pretty well entranced. how had I lived so long having never heard this poem? (of course I bought the trivet which had the words in iron...) who is the author, I needed to know, you mean the man whose "The Children's Hour" we read in fifth grade? 'grave Alice, laughing Allegra -- and Edith with golden hair'. The author of 'there was a little girl, who had a little curl right in the middle of her forehead; when she was good she was very, very good; and when she was bad she was horrid' That was the Longfellow I had heard.

Powerful

I’ve known my best friend since I was in preschool and she waits till know to tell me Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is her great great great grandfather (idk the amount of greats lol) but wtf Bruh

Yes

Inspiring💓❤‍🔥

Production quality getting better. Good job!

We have known the days.

Either don't include the text or increase its size in order to make it readable. ✌️

CALM the music so the words can be heard

I am here because this is in my syllabus.

Encontré este poema en mi libro de inglés de la escuela, y como me interesa aprender inglés, busque el audio para saber como se pronuncia y como se dice :3

Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o’er life’s solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again. Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait.

Amen 🙏 John 3:16

Though. Story small forget me not♥️

Isn't it amazing that there can be those that have such a love for life and those that can't wait to lose it. Where can I find the flame that he found. Where has my will gone. Why has the devil stolen my heart and left in its place nothing. What good of a world to an artist when all the colors turn grey. How sorry I am in this state. How each step is a mountain. How much I yearn to want again. A life of no desire is a burden with no success, no joy. Why then, should I prolong this. For others I know. For the child who's colors still show. A life is no longer mine; it never was. Living is no longer for me; it never was.

«Keep the mountain full of pride, get on there with no value cryed.» - Aleksandr The Fire Cali

These are the great Americans

The back ground music is way too loud it makes it hard to hear the words

I think it means get at er with solid heart and no fear.

Can I use this for my short film?

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great but can you turn the music down a bit

- Señor, bendiga a los que leen este mensaje, familiares y seres queridos, con tu infinita bondad, hazlos llenos de paz, amor, salud y armonía, derrama tu infinita Gracia, Luz; Sabiduría y Prosperidad, todo lo mejor en sus vidas… Benditos sean! - Senhor abençoe os que lêem (e os que não leram) esta mensagem, todos os familiares e entes queridos, com a tua infinita bondade, torne-os plenos de paz, de amor, saúde e harmonia, derrame tuas infinitas Graça, Luz; Sabedoria e Prosperidade, de tudo de melhor nas vidas deles... Abençoados são! - Lord bless those who read this message, family and loved ones, with your infinite goodness, make them full of peace, love, health and harmony, pour out your infinite Grace, Light; Wisdom and Prosperity, all the best in their lives... Blessed are! 🖖 🙏🙏🙏 ... Blessed are! 🖖 🙏🙏🙏

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Can i find it on Spotify?