| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882). Complete Poetical Works. 1893. | | | | A Book of Sonnets | | Holidays |
| | | THE HOLIEST of all holidays are those | |
| Kept by ourselves in silence and apart; | |
| The secret anniversaries of the heart, | |
| When the full river of feeling overflows;— | |
| The happy days unclouded to their close; | 5 |
| The sudden joys that out of darkness start | |
| As flames from ashes; swift desires that dart | |
| Like swallows singing down each wind that blows! | |
| White as the gleam of a receding sail, | |
| White as a cloud that floats and fades in air, | 10 |
| White as the whitest lily on a stream, | |
| These tender memories are;—a fairy tale | |
| Of some enchanted land we know not where, | |
| But lovely as a landscape in a dream. | | | | |
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