Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quote

So disasters come not singly; But as if they watched and waited, Scanning one another's motions, When the first descends, the others Follow, follow, gathering flock-wiseRound their victim, sick and wounded, First a shadow, then a sorrow, Till the air is dark with anguish.


The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Author's complete ed (ed. 1872)


So disasters come not singly; But as if they watched and waited, Scanning one another's motions, When the first descends, the others Follow, follow,...

So disasters come not singly; But as if they watched and waited, Scanning one another's motions, When the first descends, the others Follow, follow,...

So disasters come not singly; But as if they watched and waited, Scanning one another's motions, When the first descends, the others Follow, follow,...

So disasters come not singly; But as if they watched and waited, Scanning one another's motions, When the first descends, the others Follow, follow,...