The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Volume 2Houghton, Mifflin, 1883 - 492 pages Volume two of the Poetical Works includes three of Longfellow's best-known poems. Read his view on the Expulsion of the Acadians in the fictionalized story of Evangeline or enjoy a romanticized account of the famous Hiawatha. The Courtship of Miles Standish, also included, gives a stylized?account of the well-known pilgrim. |
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... father of the poet , Conde de Paredes and Maestre de Santiago is well known in Spanish history and song . Uclés ; but , according to the poem of his son , in Ocaña . It was his death that called forth the poear He died in 1476 ...
... father of the poet , Conde de Paredes and Maestre de Santiago is well known in Spanish history and song . Uclés ; but , according to the poem of his son , in Ocaña . It was his death that called forth the poear He died in 1476 ...
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... fathers bore . Wealth and the high estate of pride , With what untimely spec they glide , How soon depart ! Are passions springing from the dust , They fade and die ; But , in the life beyond the tomb , They seal the immortal spirit's ...
... fathers bore . Wealth and the high estate of pride , With what untimely spec they glide , How soon depart ! Are passions springing from the dust , They fade and die ; But , in the life beyond the tomb , They seal the immortal spirit's ...
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... father's face , Sleep on the bosom that thy lips have pressed ! Sleep , little one ; and closely , gently place Thy drowsy eyelid on thy mother's breast . Upon that tender eye , my little friend , Soft sleep shall come , that cometh not ...
... father's face , Sleep on the bosom that thy lips have pressed ! Sleep , little one ; and closely , gently place Thy drowsy eyelid on thy mother's breast . Upon that tender eye , my little friend , Soft sleep shall come , that cometh not ...
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... father's breast embraces , Son and daughter ; and their faces Colorless grow utterly ; Whichever way Looks the fear - struck father gray , He beholds his children die . 66 Woe ! the blessed children both Takest thou in the joy of youth ...
... father's breast embraces , Son and daughter ; and their faces Colorless grow utterly ; Whichever way Looks the fear - struck father gray , He beholds his children die . 66 Woe ! the blessed children both Takest thou in the joy of youth ...
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... father's hall Shields gleamed upon the wall , Loud sang the minstrels all , Chanting his glory ; When of old Hildebrand I asked his daughter's hand , Mute did the minstrels stand To hear my story . " While the brown ale he quaffed ...
... father's hall Shields gleamed upon the wall , Loud sang the minstrels all , Chanting his glory ; When of old Hildebrand I asked his daughter's hand , Mute did the minstrels stand To hear my story . " While the brown ale he quaffed ...
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Acadian answered beautiful behold beneath birds breath brooklet Charlemagne Chispa cloud cried Dacotahs dark dead death door dreams earth EPIMETHEUS eyes face fair feet fire flowers forest forever gleam golden guests Gypsy hand hast hath hear heard heart heaven HEPHÆSTUS Hiawatha holy JULIA Kenabeek King Olaf land Lara Laughing Laughing Water leaves light listen living look loud maiden meadow MICHAEL ANGELO Miles Standish Mondamin moon morning never night Nokomis o'er Osseo PANDORA passed Pau-Puk-Keewis pray Prec river rose round rushing sails sang shadow shining ships Sigrid the Haughty silent singing sleep smile snow song Song of Hiawatha sorrow soul sound spake speak stars stood sunshine sweet tale Tharaw thee thine thou art thought unto Vict village VITTORIA VITTORIA COLONNA voice wait walls wampum wander whispered wigwam wild wind words youth
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Page 126 - 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 36 - 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 126 - Thou, too, sail on. O Ship of State ! Sail on, O UNION, strong and great ! Humanity, with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate...
Page 226 - They climb up into my turret O'er the arms and back of my chair; If I try to escape, they surround me; They seem to be everywhere.
Page 87 - THE DAY IS DONE. THE day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight. 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. Come, read to me some poem, Some simple and heartfelt lay, That shall soothe this restless feeling, And...
Page 237 - So through the night rode Paul Revere ; And so through the night went his cry of alarm To every Middlesex village and farm, — A cry of defiance and not of fear, A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door, And a word that shall echo forevermore...
Page 129 - 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.
Page 87 - And tonight I long for rest. Read from some humbler poet, Whose songs gushed from his heart, As showers from the clouds of summer, Or tears from the eyelids start; Who through long days of labor, And nights devoid of ease, Still heard in his soul the music Of wonderful melodies. Such songs have power to quiet The restless pulse of care, And come like the benediction That follows after prayer. Then read from the treasured volume The poem of thy choice, And lend to the rhyme of the poet The beauty...
Page 236 - 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. He has left the village and mounted the steep, And beneath him, tranquil and broad and deep, Is the Mystic, meeting the...
Page 79 - Were half the power, that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth, bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals nor forts: The warrior's name would be a name abhorred!