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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Hiawatha's Fishing

Hiawatha's Fishing

Forth upon the Gitche Gumee,
On the shining Big-Sea-Water,
With his fishing-line of cedar,
Of the twisted bark of ceda…

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Hiawatha's Lamentation

Hiawatha's Lamentation

In those days the Evil Spirits,
All the Manitos of mischief,
Fearing Hiawatha's wisdom,
And his love for Chibiabos…

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Hiawatha's Departure

Hiawatha's Departure

By the shore of Gitche Gumee,
By the shining Big-Sea-Water,
At the doorway of his wigwam,
In the pleasant Summer mor…

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Hiawatha And The Pearl-Feather

Hiawatha And The Pearl-Feather

On the shores of Gitche Gumee,
Of the shining Big-Sea-Water,
Stood Nokomis, the old woman,
Pointing with h…

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Hermes Trismegistus

Hermes Trismegistus

Still through Egypt's desert places
Flows the lordly Nile,
From its banks the great stone faces
Gaze with patient smi…

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Haunted Houses. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The First)

Haunted Houses. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The First)

All houses wherein men have lived and died
Are haunted houses. Through the open doors
The ha…

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Garfield

Garfield


'E venni dal martirio a questa pace.'

These words the poet heard in Paradise,
Uttered by one who, bravely dying here,

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Good Part, That Shall Not Be Taken Away, The

Good Part, That Shall Not Be Taken Away, The

She dwells by Great Kenhawa's side,
In valleys green and cool;

And all her hope and all her …

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Frithiof's Temptation. (From The Swedish)

Frithiof's Temptation. (From The Swedish)

Spring is coming, birds are twittering, forests leaf, and smiles the sun,
And the loosened torrents downward, s…

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Friar Lubin. (From The French)

Friar Lubin. (From The French)

To gallop off to town post-haste,
So oft, the times I cannot tell;
To do vile deed, nor feel disgraced,--
F…

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Flowers-De-Luce: Noël

Flowers-De-Luce: Noël

Quand les astres de Noël
Brillaient, palpitaient au ciel,
Six gaillards, et chacun ivre,
Chantaient gaiment dans le…

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Forsaken. (From The German)

Forsaken. (From The German)

Something the heart must have to cherish,
Must love and joy and sorrow learn,
Something with passion clasp, or perish…

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Flower-De-Luce: To-Morrow

Flower-De-Luce: To-Morrow

'Tis late at night, and in the realm of sleep
My little lambs are folded like the flocks;
From room to room I hear the …

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Flower-De-Luce: The Bridge Of Cloud

Flower-De-Luce: The Bridge Of Cloud

Burn, O evening hearth, and waken
Pleasant visions, as of old!
Though the house by winds be shaken,
S…

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Flower-De-Luce: Palingenesis

Flower-De-Luce: Palingenesis

I lay upon the headland-height, and listened
To the incessant sobbing of the sea
In caverns under me,
And wa…

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Flower-De-Luce: Hawthorne

Flower-De-Luce: Hawthorne

How beautiful it was, that one bright day
In the long week of rain!
Though all its splendor could not chase away

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Flower-De-Luce: Divina Commedia

Flower-De-Luce: Divina Commedia

I.
Oft have I seen at some cathedral door
A laborer, pausing in the dust and heat,
Lay down his burden, a…

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Fire. (Sonnet II.)

Fire. (Sonnet II.)

Not without fire can any workman mould
The iron to his preconceived design,
Nor can the artist without fire refine
And…

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Evening Star, The

Evening Star, The

Lo! in the painted oriel 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

Famine, The

Famine, The

Oh the long and dreary Winter!
Oh the cold and cruel Winter!
Ever thicker, thicker, thicker
Froze the ice on lake and river, …

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Evangeline: Part The Second. III.

Evangeline: Part The Second. III.

NEAR to the bank of the river, o'ershadowed by oaks, from whose branches
Garlands of Spanish moss and of mystic mistlet…

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Evangeline: Part The Second. V.

Evangeline: Part The Second. V.

IN that delightful land, which is washed by the Delaware's waters,
Guarding in sylvan shades the name of Penn the apostle…

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Evangeline: Part The First. IV.

Evangeline: Part The First. IV.

PLEASANTLY rose next morn the sun on the village of Grand-Pré.
Pleasantly gleamed in the soft, sweet air the Basin of Min…

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Evangeline: Part The Second. I.

Evangeline: Part The Second. I.

MANY a weary year had passed since the burning of Grand-Pré,
When on the falling tide the freighted vessels departed,

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