Poems of Henry W. Longfellow: Including Evangeline, The Song of Hiawatha and the Courtship of Miles Standish; with Biographical Sketch and Explanatory NotesBurt, 1901 - 347 pages |
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Page iv
... father , a lawyer , was a graduate of Harvard and an intimate friend of Channing , and his mother was a daughter of Gen. Peleg Wadsworth . Thus Henry was not only entitled to an " aristocracy of brains , " but his childhood was passed ...
... father , a lawyer , was a graduate of Harvard and an intimate friend of Channing , and his mother was a daughter of Gen. Peleg Wadsworth . Thus Henry was not only entitled to an " aristocracy of brains , " but his childhood was passed ...
Page v
... father purchased for him the house and the neighboring grounds . After nine years of married life she died a tragic death . Her light summer clothing accidentally caught fire and she was burned , dying from the burns and the shock ...
... father purchased for him the house and the neighboring grounds . After nine years of married life she died a tragic death . Her light summer clothing accidentally caught fire and she was burned , dying from the burns and the shock ...
Page xvii
... FATHER'S SIDE WAS THE GENTLE EVANGELINE SEATED , " " OTHER HOPE HAD SHE NONE , NOR WISH IN LIFE , BUT TO FOL- LOW MEEKLY , WITH REVERENT STEPS , THE SACRED FEET OF HER SAVIOUR , " " HERE HANS SACHS , THE COBBLER - POET , LAUREATE OF THE ...
... FATHER'S SIDE WAS THE GENTLE EVANGELINE SEATED , " " OTHER HOPE HAD SHE NONE , NOR WISH IN LIFE , BUT TO FOL- LOW MEEKLY , WITH REVERENT STEPS , THE SACRED FEET OF HER SAVIOUR , " " HERE HANS SACHS , THE COBBLER - POET , LAUREATE OF THE ...
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... father of the poet , Conde de Paredes and Maestre de Santiago , is well known in Spanish history and song . He died in 1476 ; according to Mariana , in the town of Uclés ; but , according to the poem of his son , in Ocaña . It was his ...
... father of the poet , Conde de Paredes and Maestre de Santiago , is well known in Spanish history and song . He died in 1476 ; according to Mariana , in the town of Uclés ; but , according to the poem of his son , in Ocaña . It was his ...
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... fathers bore . The scutcheon , that , without a stain , Wealth and the high estate of pride , With what untimely speed they glide , How soon depart ! Bid not the shadowy phantoms stay , The vassals of a mistress they , Of fickle heart ...
... fathers bore . The scutcheon , that , without a stain , Wealth and the high estate of pride , With what untimely speed they glide , How soon depart ! Bid not the shadowy phantoms stay , The vassals of a mistress they , Of fickle heart ...
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Acadian answer arrows beautiful behold beneath birds bosom breath bright Captain Chibiabos CHISPA clouds CRUZADO Dacotahs dance dark dead death DON CARLOS dreams earth Edenhall Evangeline eyes face father flowers forest gleam golden Grand-Pré grave Gypsy hand hast hear heard heart heaven Hiawatha holy HYPOLITO John Alden Julius Cæsar Kenabeek Kwasind land LARA Laughing Water leaves light look loud maiden maize meadow mighty Miles Standish Minnehaha Mondamin moon morning night o'er old Nokomis Osseo PADRE CURA passed Pau-Puk-Keewis poem prairie Pray prayer PRECIOSA Priscilla river rose round rushing sail sang shadows shining shore silent singing sleep smile snow soft song Song of Hiawatha sorrow soul sound spake spirit stars stood sunshine sweet Tharaw thee thou art thought trees unto VICTORIAN village voice waiting wampum wander waves weary whispered wigwam wild wind words youth