Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on Courtship

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“Why don't you speak for yourself, John?”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“The nightingales among the sheltering boughs Of populous many-nested trees Shall teach me how to woo thee, and shall tell me By what resistless charms or incantations They won their mates.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow