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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Wanderer's Night Songs. (From Goethe)

Wanderer's Night Songs. (From Goethe)

I.
Thou that from the heavens art,
Every pain and sorrow stillest,
And the doubly wretched heart

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Vox Populi. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The Third)

Vox Populi. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The Third)

When Mazarvan the Magician
Journeyed westward through Cathay,
Nothing heard he but the praises <…

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Voices Of The Night : The Light Of Stars

Voices Of The Night : The Light Of Stars

The night is come, but not too soon;
And sinking silently,
All silently, the little moon
Drops d…

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Voices Of The Night : Prelude

Voices Of The Night : Prelude

Pleasant it was, when woods were green,
And winds were soft and low,
To lie amid some sylvan scene,
Where, …

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Voices Of The Night : L'Envoi

Voices Of The Night : L'Envoi

Ye voices, that arose
After the Evening's close,
And whispered to my restless heart repose!


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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Voices Of The Night : Footsteps of Angels

Voices Of The Night : Footsteps of Angels

When the hours of Day are numbered,
And the voices of the Night
Wake the better soul, that slumbered, <…

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Vittoria Colonna

Vittoria Colonna

Once more, once more, Inarimé,
I see thy purple hills!--once more
I hear the billows of the bay
Wash the white pebbles o…

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Voices Of The Night : A Psalm Of Life

Voices Of The Night : A Psalm Of Life

Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream! -
For the soul is dead that slumbers,

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Venice

Venice


White swan of cities, slumbering in thy nest
So wonderfully built among the reeds
Of the lagoon, that fences thee and feeds,

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Village Blacksmith, The

Village Blacksmith, The

Under a spreading chestnut tree
The village smithy stands;
The Smith, a mighty man is he,
With large and sinewy h…

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Ultima Thule: The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls

Ultima Thule: The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls

The tide rises, the tide falls,
The twilight darkens, the curlew calls;
Along the sea-sands damp and…

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Ultima Thule: The Poet And His Songs

Ultima Thule: The Poet And His Songs

As the birds come in the Spring,
We know not from where;
As the stars come at evening
From depths of…

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Ultima Thule: Night

Ultima Thule: Night

Into the darkness and the hush of night
Slowly the landscape sinks, and fades away,
And with it fade the phantoms of the day,…

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Ultima Thule: Robert Burns

Ultima Thule: Robert Burns

I see amid the fields of Ayr
A ploughman, who, in foul and fair,
Sings at his task
So clear, we know not if it…

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Ultima Thule: Jugurtha

Ultima Thule: Jugurtha

How cold are thy baths, Apollo!
Cried the African monarch, the splendid,
As down to his death in the hollow
Dark d…

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Ultima Thule: Elegiac

Ultima Thule: Elegiac

Dark is the morning with mist; in the narrow mouth of the harbor
Motionless lies the sea, under its curtain of cloud;
Dream…

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Ultima Thule: Bayard Taylor

Ultima Thule: Bayard Taylor

Dead he lay among his books!
The peace of God was in his looks.


As the statues in the gloom
W…

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Travels By The Fireside. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The Fourth)

Travels By The Fireside. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The Fourth)

The ceaseless rain is falling fast,
And yonder gilded vane,
Immovable for three da…

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

To William E. Channing

To William E. Channing

The pages of thy book I read,
And as I closed each one,

My heart, responding, ever said,
"Servant of God! …

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

To Vittoria Colonna. (Sonnet V.)

To Vittoria Colonna. (Sonnet V.)

Lady, how can it chance--yet this we see
In long experience--that will longer last
A living image carved from qu…

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

To the River Charles

To the River Charles

River! that in silence windest
Through the meadows, bright and free,
Till at length thy rest thou findest
In the bos…

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

To The River Yvette. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The Fifth)

To The River Yvette. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The Fifth)

O lovely river of Yvette!
O darling river! like a bride,
Some dimpled, bashful, fair Li…

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

To The Driving Cloud

To The Driving Cloud

Gloomy and dark art thou, O chief of the mighty Omahas;
Gloomy and dark as the driving cloud, whose name thou hast taken!
Wr…

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

To Italy. (From Filicaja)

To Italy. (From Filicaja)

Italy! Italy! thou who'rt doomed to wear
The fatal gift of beauty and possess
The dower funest of infinite wretchedness…

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