The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth LongfellowHoughton Mifflin, 1914 - 689 pages |
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... voice the songs which were the overflow of his native genius , enriched and expanded by the years of study and ... Voices of the Night . " It comprised three groups of poems , those recently written and published in the " Knickerbocker ...
... voice the songs which were the overflow of his native genius , enriched and expanded by the years of study and ... Voices of the Night . " It comprised three groups of poems , those recently written and published in the " Knickerbocker ...
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... voice , and give him eloquent teachings . He shall so hear the solemn hymn that Death Has lifted up for all , that ... voices fill the woodland side . Alas ! how changed from the fair scene , When birds sang out their mellow lay , And ...
... voice , and give him eloquent teachings . He shall so hear the solemn hymn that Death Has lifted up for all , that ... voices fill the woodland side . Alas ! how changed from the fair scene , When birds sang out their mellow lay , And ...
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... voices seemed to say , " It cannot be ! They pass away Other themes demand thy lay ; Thou art no more a child ! ! " The ... voice from my inmost heart , at a time when I was rallying from depression . " Before it was pub- lished in the ...
... voices seemed to say , " It cannot be ! They pass away Other themes demand thy lay ; Thou art no more a child ! ! " The ... voice from my inmost heart , at a time when I was rallying from depression . " Before it was pub- lished in the ...
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... voice nor sound was there , No drum , nor sentry's pace ; The mist - like banners clasped the air As clouds with clouds embrace . But when the old cathedral bell Proclaimed the morning prayer , The white pavilions rose and fell On the ...
... voice nor sound was there , No drum , nor sentry's pace ; The mist - like banners clasped the air As clouds with clouds embrace . But when the old cathedral bell Proclaimed the morning prayer , The white pavilions rose and fell On the ...
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... voice of one who crieth In the wilderness alone , " Vex not his ghost ! " Then comes , with an awful roar ... Voices of the Night . The first five " of the following , Mr. Long- fellow says elsewhere in a manuscript note , " were written ...
... voice of one who crieth In the wilderness alone , " Vex not his ghost ! " Then comes , with an awful roar ... Voices of the Night . The first five " of the following , Mr. Long- fellow says elsewhere in a manuscript note , " were written ...
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Acadian Angel answered art thou beautiful behold bells beneath birds breath Chispa CHRISTUS cloud cried dark dead death door dreams earth EPIMETHEUS Essenians eyes face feet fire flowers forest forever gleam golden Golden Legend guests Gypsy hand hast hath hear heard heart heaven HEPHÆSTUS HEROD Hiawatha Kenabeek King Olaf land Lara Laughing Laughing Water light listen Longfellow look Lord loud maiden MANAHEM meadow Miles Standish mist Mondamin moon morning night Nokomis o'er Osseo PANDORA passed Pau-Puk-Keewis PHARISEES poem poet Pray prayer Prec priest river rose round rushing sails sang shadow shining ships Sigrid the Haughty silent singing sleep smile song Song of Hiawatha soul sound spake stars stood sunshine sweet tale thee thine thou art thought unto Vict village voice wait walls wampum wigwam wild wind wonder words youth
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Page 95 - T is 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 7 - 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.
Page 199 - If the British march By land or sea from the town to-night, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch Of the North Church tower as a signal light, — One, if by land, and two, if by sea ; And I on the opposite shore will be, Ready to ride and spread the alarm Through every Middlesex village and farm, For the country folk to be up and to arm.
Page 200 - A hurry of hoofs in a village street, A shape in the moonlight, a bulk in the dark, And beneath, from the pebbles, in passing, a spark Struck out by a steed flying fearless and fleet : That was all! And yet, through the gloom and the light The fate of a nation was riding that night; And the spark struck out by that steed in his flight, Kindled the land into flame with its heat.
Page 11 - THE shades of night were falling fast, As through an Alpine village passed A youth, who bore, 'mid snow and ice, A banner with the strange device, Excelsior ! His brow was sad ; his eye beneath, Flashed like a falchion from its sheath, And like a silver clarion rung The accents of that unknown tongue, Excelsior! 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 100 - We will be patient, and assuage the feeling We may not wholly stay ; By silence sanctifying, not concealing, The grief that must have way.
Page 89 - All was ended now, the hope, and the fear, and the sorrow, All the aching of heart, the restless, unsatisfied longing, All the dull, deep pain, and constant anguish of patience ! And, as she pressed once more the lifeless head to her bosom, Meekly she bowed her own, and murmured,
Page 99 - Amid these earthly damps, What seem to us but sad, funereal tapers, May be heaven's distant lamps. There is no Death ! What seems so is transition. This life of mortal breath Is but a suburb of the life Elysian, Whose portal we call Death. She is not dead, — the child of our affection, — But gone unto that school Where she no longer needs our poor protection, And Christ himself doth rule. In that great cloister's stillness and seclusion, By guardian angels led, Safe from temptation, safe from...
Page 6 - Tow'rds the reef of Norman's Woe. And ever the fitful gusts between A sound came from the land; It was the sound of the trampling surf On the rocks and the hard sea-sand. The breakers were right beneath her bows, She drifted a dreary wreck, And a whooping billow swept the crew Like icicles from her deck. She struck where the white and fleecy waves Looked soft as carded wool, But the cruel rocks, they gored her side Like the horns of an angry bull. Her rattling shrouds, all sheathed in ice, With the...
Page 200 - It was twelve by the village clock When he crossed the bridge into Medford town. He heard the crowing of the cock, And the barking of the farmer's dog. And felt the damp of the river fog, That rises after the sun goes down. It was one by the village clock, When he galloped into Lexington. He saw the gilded weathercock Swim in the moonlight as he passed, And the meeting-house windows, blank and bare, Gaze at him with a spectral glare, As if they already stood aghast At the bloody work they would look...