The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: With Numerous IllustrationsHoughton, Mifflin, 1883 - 348 pages |
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... sweet look that Nature wears . Blushes the richness of an autumn sky , With ever - shifting beauty . Then her breath , It is so like the gentle air of Spring , As , from the morning's dewy flowers , it comes Full of their fragrance ...
... sweet look that Nature wears . Blushes the richness of an autumn sky , With ever - shifting beauty . Then her breath , It is so like the gentle air of Spring , As , from the morning's dewy flowers , it comes Full of their fragrance ...
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... sweet ? Where are the gentle knights , that came To kneel , and breathe love's ardent flame , Low at their feet ? Where is the song of Troubadour ? Where are the lute and gay tambour They loved of yore ? Where is the mazy dance of old ...
... sweet ? Where are the gentle knights , that came To kneel , and breathe love's ardent flame , Low at their feet ? Where is the song of Troubadour ? Where are the lute and gay tambour They loved of yore ? Where is the mazy dance of old ...
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... sweet simplicity of days gone by ! Thou shun'st the haunts of man , to dwell in limpid fount ! THE CELESTIAL PILOT . FROM DANTE . AND now , PURGATORIO , IL behold ! as at the approach of morn- ing , Through the gross vapors , Mars grows ...
... sweet simplicity of days gone by ! Thou shun'st the haunts of man , to dwell in limpid fount ! THE CELESTIAL PILOT . FROM DANTE . AND now , PURGATORIO , IL behold ! as at the approach of morn- ing , Through the gross vapors , Mars grows ...
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... sweet melodies Compassion for me , more than had they said , " O wherefore , lady , dost thou thus cousume him ? " The ice , that was about my heart congealed , To air and water changed , and , in my anguish , Through lips and eyes came ...
... sweet melodies Compassion for me , more than had they said , " O wherefore , lady , dost thou thus cousume him ? " The ice , that was about my heart congealed , To air and water changed , and , in my anguish , Through lips and eyes came ...
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... sweet to watch for thee , alone for thee ! His arms fall down ; sleep sits upon his brow ; His eye is closed ; he sleeps , nor dreams of harm . Wore not his cheek the apple's ruddy glow , Would you not say he slept on Death's cold arm ...
... sweet to watch for thee , alone for thee ! His arms fall down ; sleep sits upon his brow ; His eye is closed ; he sleeps , nor dreams of harm . Wore not his cheek the apple's ruddy glow , Would you not say he slept on Death's cold arm ...
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Page 174 - 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 35 - Week in, week out, from morn till night, You can hear his bellows blow ; You can hear him swing his heavy sledge, With measured beat and slow, Like a sexton ringing the village bell When the evening sun is low.
Page 11 - Ere the evening lamps are lighted, And, like phantoms grim and tall, Shadows from the fitful fire-light Dance upon the parlor wall; Then the forms of the departed Enter at the open door; The beloved, the true-hearted, Come to visit me once more; He, the young and strong, who cherished Noble longings for the strife, By the roadside fell and perished, Weary with the march of life!
Page 11 - Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us, Footprints on the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwrecked brother, Seeing, shall take heart again.
Page 75 - THOUGH the mills of God grind slowly, yet they grind exceeding small ; Though with patience he stands waiting, with exactness grinds he all.
Page 29 - 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 13 - Flowers; In all places, then, and in all seasons, Flowers expand their light and soul-like wings, Teaching us, by most persuasive reasons, How akin they are to human things. And with childlike, credulous affection We behold their tender buds expand; Emblems of our own great resurrection, Emblems of the bright and better land.
Page 29 - But the father answered never a word, A frozen corpse was he. Lashed to the helm, all stiff and stark, With his face turned to the skies, The lantern gleamed through the gleaming snow On his fixed and glassy eyes. Then the maiden clasped her hands and prayed That saved she might be; And she thought of Christ, who stilled the wave On the Lake of Galilee.
Page 64 - The tumult of each sacked and burning village ; The shout that every prayer for mercy drowns; The soldiers' revels in the midst of pillage; The wail of famine in beleaguered towns ; The bursting shell, the gateway wrenched asunder, The rattling musketry, the clashing blade ; And ever and anon, in tones of thunder The diapason of the cannonade. Is it...
Page 10 - I HEARD the trailing garments of the Night Sweep through her marble halls ! I saw her sable skirts all fringed with light From the celestial walls ! I felt her presence, by its spell of might, Stoop o'er me from above ; The calm majestic presence of the Night, As of the one I love. I heard the sounds of sorrow and delight, The manifold soft chimes, That fill the haunted chambers of the Night, Like some old poet's rhymes. From the cool cisterns of the midnight air My spirit drank repose ; The fountain...