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Portrait of HENRY W. LONGFELLOW.
THE “IMPERIAL” POETS.
THE POETICAL WORKS OF
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW.
REPRINTED FROM THE REVISED AMERICAN EDITION, Including Recent Poems and Illustrated Memoir.
LONDON: FREDERICK WARNE AND CO. BEDFORD STREET, STRAND. 1889.
Morrison and Gibb, Edinburgh, Printers to Her Majesty’s Stationery Office.
PUBLISHERS’ PREFACE.
The Publishers have the pleasure of presenting to the Public in this volume an edition of Longfellow’s Poems, revised and corrected by comparison with his last American Edition, in which he made many emendations; and including his earliest and latest Poems, among which are several that have not appeared in any other edition of this popular Author’s works.
CONTENTS.
EARLY POEMS.
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An April Day 1
Autumn 2
Sunrise on the Hills 3
Woods in Winter 4
Hymn of the Moravian Nuns of Bethlehem,
at the Consecration of Pulaski’s Banner 4
Burial of the Minnisink 5
The Spirit of Poetry 5
VOICES OF THE NIGHT.
Prelude 7
Hymn to the Night 8
A Psalm of Life 9
Footsteps of Angels 9
The Reaper and the Flowers 10
The Light of Stars 11
Flowers 11
The Beleaguered City 13
L’Envoi 13
Midnight Mass for the Dying Year 14
BALLADS.
The Skeleton in Armour 15
The Wreck of the Hesperus 17
POEMS ON SLAVERY.
To William E. Channing 20
The Slave’s Dream 20
The Slave in the Dismal Swamp 21
The Good Part that shall not be taken away 21
The Quadroon Girl 22
The Witnesses 23
The Warning 23
The Slave singing at Midnight 24
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.
It is not always May 25
The Rainy Day 25
The Village Blacksmith 26
Endymion 26
God’s-Acre 27
To the River Charles 27
Blind Bartimeus 28
The Goblet of Life 28
The Sea-Diver 29
The Belfry of Bruges 30
Maidenhood 32
The Arsenal at Springfield 33
A Gleam of Sunshine 34
Nuremberg 35
The Indian Hunter 37
The Norman Baron 38
To a Child 39
The Occultation of Orion 43
Rain in Summer 44
The Bridge 45
Excelsior 46
To the Driving Cloud 47
Curfew 48
SONGS.
To an old Danish Song-book 49
The Arrow and the Song 50
Walter Von der Vogelweid 50
The Day is Done 51
Sea-weed 51
Drinking Song 52
The Old Clock on the Stairs 53
Afternoon in February 54
THE SPANISH STUDENT 55
EVANGELINE 106
THE SEASIDE AND THE FIRESIDE.
Dedication 139
BY THE SEASIDE.
The Building of the Ship 140
Twilight 145
The Fire of Drift-wood 145
The Lighthouse 146
Sir Humphrey Gilbert 147
The Secret of the Sea 148
The Evening Star 149
BY THE FIRESIDE.
Resignation 149
The Builders 150
Sand of the Desert in an Hour-glass 151
Pegasus in Pound 152
King Witlaf’s Drinking-horn 153
Tegner’s Drapa 153
The Singers 154
Suspiria 155
The Open Window 155
Hymn 155
Gasper Becerra 156
THE GOLDEN LEGEND.
Prologue 157
The Nativity: A Miracle-Play 197
Epilogue 249
Martin Luther 251
St. John 253
THE SONG OF HIAWATHA 255
THE COURTSHIP OF MILES STANDISH 314
TALES OF A WAYSIDE INN.
DAY THE FIRST.
Prelude—The Wayside Inn 338
The Landlord’s Tale—Paul Revere’s Ride 341
Interlude 344
The Student’s Tale—The Falcon of Ser Federigo 345
Interlude 351
The Spanish Jew’s Tale—The Legend of Rabbi Ben Levi 352
Interlude 353
The Sicilian’s Tale—King Robert of Sicily 354
Interlude 358
The Musician’s Tale—The Saga of King Olaf 359
I. The Challenge of Thor 359
II. King Olaf’s Return 359
III. Thora of Rimol 360
IV. Queen Sigrid the Haughty 361
V. The Skerry of Shrieks 363
VI. The Wraith of Odin 364
VII. Iron-Beard 366
VIII. Gudrun 368
IX. Thangbrand the Priest 368
X. Raud the Strong 369
XI. Bishop Sigurd at Salten Fiord 370
XII. King Olaf’s Christmas 371
XIII. The Building of the Long Serpent 372
XIV. The Crew of the Long Serpent 373
XV. A Little Bird in the Air 374
XVI. Queen Thyri and the Angelica-stalks 374
XVII. King Svend of the Forkèd Beard 375
XVIII. King Olaf and Earl Sigvald 376
XIX. King Olaf’s War-horns 377
XX. Einar Tamberskelver 378
XXI. King Olaf’s Death-drink 378
XXII. The Nun of Nidaros 379
Interlude 380
The Theologian’s Tale—Torquemada 381
Interlude 386
The Poet’s Tale—The Birds of Killingworth 386
Close of First Day 392
THE SECOND DAY.
Prelude 392
The Sicilian’s Tale—The Bell of Atri 394
Interlude 396
The Spanish Jew’s Tale—Kambalu 397
Interlude 399
The Student’s Tale—The Cobbler of Hagenau 399
Interlude 402
The Musician’s Tale—The Ballad of Carmilhan 403
Interlude 406
The Poet’s Tale—Lady Wentworth 406
Interlude 410
The Theologian’s Tale—The Legend Beautiful 410
Interlude 412
The Student’s Second Tale—The Baron of St. Castine 412
Finale 419
Scanderbeg 419
The Rhyme of Sir Christopher 421
Charlemagne 423
FLOWER-DE-LUCE.
Beautiful Lily 425
Palingenesis 426
Hawthorne 427
The Bells of Lynn 428
The Bridge of Cloud 429
The Wind over the Chimney 429
Killed at the Ford 430
Noël 431
Christmas Bells 432
SONNETS
Autumn 434
Giotto’s Tower 434
Dante 435
To-morrow 435
The Evening Star 435
Divina Commedia 436
On Mrs. Kemble’s Readings from Shakespeare 437
Nature 438
In the Churchyard at Tarrytown 438
Eliot’s Oak 438
The Descent of the Muses 439
Venice 439
The Two Rivers 439
Chaucer 441
Woodstock Park 441
St. John’s, Cambridge 441
Boston 442
The Burial of the Poet 442
The Three Silences of Molinos 442
My Cathedral 443
To the River Rhone 443
Wapentake 443
The Broken Oar 444
Agassiz 444
THE HANGING OF THE CRANE 445
MORITURI SALUTAMUS 447
KÉRAMOS 454
BIRDS OF PASSAGE.
FLIGHT THE FIRST.
Prometheus; or, The Poet’s Forethought 459
The Ladder of St. Augustine 460
Birds of Passage 460
The Phantom Ship 461
The Warden of the Cinque Ports 462
Haunted Houses 463
The Emperor’s Bird’s-nest 464
In the Churchyard at Cambridge 465
The Two Angels 465
Oliver Basselin 466
The Jewish Cemetery at Newport 467
Victor Galbraith 469
Daylight and Moonlight 470
My Lost Youth 470
The Ropewalk 472
The Golden Milestone 473
Catawba Wine 474
Daybreak 475
Santa Filomena 476
The Fiftieth Birthday of Agassiz 476
The Discoverer of the North Cape 477
Children 478
Sandalphon 479
Epimetheus; or, The Poet’s Afterthought 479
FLIGHT THE SECOND.
A Day of Sunshine 480
The Children’s Hour 481
Enceladus 481
The Cumberland 482
Something Left Undone 483
Weariness 483
Snow-flakes 484
FLIGHT THE THIRD.
Cadenabbia 484
Charles Sumner 485
Monte Cassino 485
Amalfi 487
A Dutch Picture 488
The Sermon of St. Francis 489
Travels by the Fireside 490
FLIGHT THE FOURTH.
The Herons of Elmwood 491
Vittoria Colonna 491
Song 492
A Ballad of the French Fleet 492
Castles in Spain 493
The White Czar 494
The Leap of Roushan Beg 495
Haroun Al Raschid 496
The Three Kings 496
King Trisanku 498
Vox Populi 498
The Revenge of Rain-in-the-Face 498
To the River Yvette 499
The Emperor’s Glove 499
A Wraith in the Mist 499
MISCELLANEOUS POEMS.
The Golden Sunset 500
From my Arm-chair 500
The Chamber over the Gate 501
The Four Lakes of Madison 502
The Sifting of Peter 503
Helen of Tyre 503
The Iron Pen 504
The Poet and his Songs 504
Robert Burns 505
Bayard Taylor 506
Old St. David’s at Radnor 507
Jugurtha 508
Maiden and Weathercock 508
The Windmill 509
Via Solitaria 510
Auf Wiedersehen 511
Ultima Thule 511
Hermes Trismegistus 512
Decoration Day 513
Mad River 514
Inscription on the Shanklin Fountain, Isle of Wight 515
The Bells of San Blas 516
President Garfield 517
EARLIEST POEMS.
Thanksgiving 518
Autumnal Nightfall 519
Italian Scenery 520
The Lunatic Girl 522
The Venetian Gondolier 524
Dirge over a Nameless Grave 525
A Song of Savoy 525
Jeckoyva 525
Musings 527
Song 528
TRANSLATIONS.
TRANSLATIONS FROM THE SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE.
Coplas de Manrique 529
The Good Shepherd 535
The Brook 535
Santa Teresa’s Book-mark 535
To-morrow 536
The Native Land 536
The Image of God 536
Two Sonnets from Francisco de Medrano 537
TRANSLATIONS FROM THE ITALIAN.
The Celestial Pilot 538
The Terrestrial Paradise 539
Beatrice 540
Three Cantos of Dante’s Paradiso 541
The Old Bridge at Florence 551
The Nature of Love 552
To Italy 552
TRANSLATIONS FROM THE FRENCH.
Spring 553
The Child Asleep 553
Rondel—From Froissard 554
Rondel—From the Duke of Orleans 554
Renouveau 555
Friar Lubin 555
Death of Archbishop Turpin 556
To Cardinal Richelieu 557
Consolation 558
The Angel and the Child 559
A Christmas Carol 560
The Blind Girl of Castèl-Cuillè 560
My Secret 569
Barréges 570
On the Terrace of the Aigalades 570
TRANSLATIONS FROM THE ANGLO-SAXON.
The Grave 571
Beowulf’s Expedition to Heort 571
The Soul’s Complaint against the Body 573
TRANSLATIONS FROM THE SWEDISH.
Frithiof’s Homestead 573
Frithiof’s Temptation 574
The Children of the Lord’s Supper 576
TRANSLATIONS FROM THE GERMAN.
The Statue over the Cathedral Door 585
The Hemlock-tree 586
Annie of Tharaw 586
The Legend of the Crossbill 588
Poetic Aphorisms 588
The Sea hath its Pearls 590
Song of the Silent Land 590
Blessed are the Dead 591
The Wave 591
The Bird and the Ship 592
The Happiest Land 593
Whither? 593
Beware! 594
Song of the Bell 594
The Dead 594
The Castle by the Sea 595
Wanderer’s Night-Songs 595
The Black Knight 595
Silent Love 596
The Luck of Edenhall 597
The Two Locks of Hair 598
Remorse 599
TRANSLATIONS FROM THE DANISH.
King Christian 599
The Elected Knight 600
Childhood 602
MISCELLANEOUS TRANSLATIONS.
The Fugitive 603
To the Stork 604
The Boy and the Brook 605
The Siege of Kazan 605
Columbus 606
NOTES 607
INDEX OF FIRST LINES 627