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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Good Shepherd (From The Spanish Of Lope De Vega)

The Good Shepherd (From The Spanish Of Lope De Vega)

Shepherd! who with thine amorous sylvan songs
Hast broken the slumber that encompassed me,
W…

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Golden Mile-Stone. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The First)

The Golden Mile-Stone. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The First)

Leafless are the trees; their purple branches
Spread themselves abroad, like reefs of coral, …

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Golden Legend: V. A Covered Bridge At Lucerne

The Golden Legend: V. A Covered Bridge At Lucerne

_Prince Henry_. God's blessing on the architects who build
The bridges o'er swift rivers and abysses

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Golden Legend: IV. The Road To Hirschau

The Golden Legend: IV. The Road To Hirschau

PRINCE HENRY _and_ ELSIE, _with their attendants, on
horseback._


_Elsie._ Onward and …

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Ghosts

The Ghosts

Never stoops the soaring vulture
On his quarry in the desert,
On the sick or wounded bison,
But another vulture, watching

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Golden Legend: II. A Farm In The Odenwald

The Golden Legend: II. A Farm In The Odenwald

A garden; morning;_ PRINCE HENRY _seated, with a
book_. ELSIE, _at a distance, gathering flowers._

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Four Princesses At Wilna. A Photograph

The Four Princesses At Wilna. A Photograph

Sweet faces, that from pictured casements lean
As from a castle window, looking down
On some gay pagea…

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Fugitive. (Tartar Song, From The Prose Version Of Chodzko)

The Fugitive. (Tartar Song, From The Prose Version Of Chodzko)

I.
'He is gone to the desert land
I can see the shining mane
Of his horse …

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Fiftieth Birthday Of Agassiz. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The First)

The Fiftieth Birthday Of Agassiz. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The First)

It was fifty years ago
In the pleasant month of May,
In the beautiful Pays…

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Evening Star

The Evening Star

Lo! in the paintedoriel of the West,

Whose panes the sunken sun incarnadines,

Like a fair lady at her casement, …

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Emperor's Bird's-Nest. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The First)

The Emperor's Bird's-Nest. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The First)

Once the Emperor Charles of Spain,
With his swarthy, grave commanders,
I forget i…

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Dwarves

The Dwarves

Loke sat and thought, till his dark eyes gleam
With joy at the deed he'd done;
When Sif looked into the crystal stream,
Her c…

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Demoniac of Gadara

The Demoniac of Gadara

A GADARENE.
He hath escaped, hath plucked his chains asunder,
And broken his fetters; always night and day
Is in t…

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Dead. (From The German Of Stockmann)

The Dead. (From The German Of Stockmann)

How they so softly rest,
All they the holy ones,
Unto whose dwelling-place
Now doth my soul draw…

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Courtship of Miles Standish

The Courtship of Miles Standish

I
MILES STANDISH


In the Old Colony days, in Plymouth the land of the Pilgrims
To and fro …

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Cumberland

The Cumberland

At anchor in Hampton Roads we lay,
On board of the Cumberland sloop-of-war;
And at times from the fortress across the bay

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Chamber Over The Gate

The Chamber Over The Gate

Is it so far from thee
Thou canst no longer see,
In the Chamber over the Gate,
That old man desolate,
W…

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Children Of The Lord's Supper. (From The Swedish Of Bishop Tegner)

The Children Of The Lord's Supper. (From The Swedish Of Bishop Tegner)

Pentecost, day of rejoicing, had come. The church of the village
Gleaming stood in…

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Challenge of Thor

The Challenge of Thor

I am the God Thor,
I am the War God,
I am the Thunderer!
Here in my Northland,
My fastness and fortress,

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Castle-Builder. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The Third)

The Castle-Builder. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The Third)

A gentle boy, with soft and silken locks,
A dreamy boy, with brown and tender eyes,
A ca…

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Burial Of The Poet

The Burial Of The Poet

In the old churchyard of his native town,
And in the ancestral tomb beside the wall,
We laid him in the sleep that comes t…

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Brook. (From The Spanish)

The Brook. (From The Spanish)

Laugh of the mountain! -- lyre of bird and tree!
Pomp of the meadow! mirror of the morn!
The soul of April, unto wh…

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Boy And The Brook. (Armenian Popular Song, From The Prose Version Of

The Boy And The Brook. (Armenian Popular Song, From The Prose Version Of
Alishan)

Down from yon distant mountain height
The brooklet flows throug…

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The Broken Oar

The Broken Oar

Once upon Iceland's solitary strand
A poet wandered with his book and pen,
Seeking some final word, some sweet Amen,
Where…

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