A Selection from the Works of Henry Wadsworth LongfellowWard, Lock & Bowden, Limited, 1889 - 220 pages |
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... legends of the Rhineland , such as " The Christ of Andernach " and the life of the German students , were graphically sketched . His first volumes had already appeared , before " Hyperion , " in the shape of an essay on Spanish Poetry ...
... legends of the Rhineland , such as " The Christ of Andernach " and the life of the German students , were graphically sketched . His first volumes had already appeared , before " Hyperion , " in the shape of an essay on Spanish Poetry ...
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... be considered hardly worthy of the reputation of the author of " Hyperion . " Soon afterwards , in 1851 , appeared the " Golden Legend . " It startled many by the apparent profanity in the medieval BIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE . xvii.
... be considered hardly worthy of the reputation of the author of " Hyperion . " Soon afterwards , in 1851 , appeared the " Golden Legend . " It startled many by the apparent profanity in the medieval BIOGRAPHICAL PREFACE . xvii.
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... Legend , has entered more closely into the temper of the monk , for good and for evil , than ever yet theo- logical writer ... legends , superstitions , and myths . By many readers and critics it was considered the most original of the ...
... Legend , has entered more closely into the temper of the monk , for good and for evil , than ever yet theo- logical writer ... legends , superstitions , and myths . By many readers and critics it was considered the most original of the ...
Page xix
... legends drawn from the writings of Dr. Schoolcraft , a diligent investigator of Indian lore , who afterwards dedicated to Longfellow a new volume of Indian myths and legends , in acknowledgment of the poet's services in popularizing and ...
... legends drawn from the writings of Dr. Schoolcraft , a diligent investigator of Indian lore , who afterwards dedicated to Longfellow a new volume of Indian myths and legends , in acknowledgment of the poet's services in popularizing and ...
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Henry William Dulcken. and preserving the Indian legends and myths . The metre in the two poems is certainly identical , but except that each poem has to do with the traditions of an uncivilized race , the two ...
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Henry William Dulcken. and preserving the Indian legends and myths . The metre in the two poems is certainly identical , but except that each poem has to do with the traditions of an uncivilized race , the two ...
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Popular passages
Page 78 - I see the lights of the village Gleam through the rain and the mist, And a feeling of sadness comes o'er me That my soul cannot resist: A feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only As the mist resembles the rain.
Page 141 - BETWEEN the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupations, That is known as the Children's Hour. I hear in the chamber above me The patter of little feet, The sound of a door that is opened, And voices soft and sweet.
Page 99 - It sounds to him like her mother's voice, Singing in Paradise ! He needs must think of her once more, How in the grave she lies ; And with his hard, rough hand he wipes A tear out of his eyes. Toiling, — rejoicing, — sorrowing, Onward through life he goes ; Each morning sees some task begin, Each evening sees it close ; Something attempted, something done, Has earned a night's repose.
Page 70 - THERE is a Reaper, whose name is Death, And, with his sickle keen, He reaps the bearded grain at a breath, And the flowers that grow between.
Page 214 - Last night the moon had a golden ring, And to-night no moon we see! " The skipper, he blew a whiff from his pipe, And a scornful laugh laughed he.
Page 87 - Sail forth into the sea of life, O gentle, loving, trusting wife, And safe from all adversity Upon the bosom of that sea Thy comings and thy goings be! For gentleness and love and trust Prevail o'er angry wave and gust; And in the wreck of noble lives Something immortal still survives!
Page 68 - TELL me not, in mournful numbers, " Life is but an empty dream ! " For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real ! Life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal ; "Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Page 88 - Tis of the wave and not the rock ; ,Tis but the flapping of the sail, And not a rent made by the gale ! In spite of rock and tempest's roar. In spite of false lights on the shore, Sail on, nor fear to breast the sea ! Our hearts, our hopes, are all with thee...
Page 102 - In happy homes he saw the light Of household fires gleam warm and bright; Above, the spectral glaciers shone, And from his lips escaped a groan, Excelsior! "Try not the pass!
Page 7 - Fair was she to behold, that maiden of seventeen summers. Black were her eyes as the berry that grows on the thorn by the wayside, Black, yet how softly they gleamed beneath the brown shade of her tresses!