Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 1893. Complete Poetical Works

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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.

—Paul Revere’s Ride, ll. 119–22.

Henry Wadsworth
Longfellow

Complete Poetical Works

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The more than 600 selections in the one-volume Cambridge edition contain all the verse and dramas of the quintessential nineteenth-century American poet.

CONTENTS

Bibliographic Record Publishers’ Note Biographical Sketch

EDITED BY HORACE E. SCUDDER

BOSTON, NEW YORK: HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & Co., 1893
NEW YORK: BARTLEBY.COM, 2011

Voices of the Night Prelude Hymn to the Night A Psalm of Life The Reaper and the Flowers The Light of Stars Footsteps of Angels Flowers The Beleaguered City Midnight Mass for the Dying Year Earlier Poems An April Day Autumn Woods in Winter Hymn of the Moravian Nuns of Bethlehem Sunrise on the Hills The Spirit of Poetry Burial of the Minnisink L’Envoi Ballads and Other Poems The Skeleton in Armor The Wreck of the Hesperus The Village Blacksmith Endymion It is not always May The Rainy Day God’s-Acre To the River Charles Blind Bartimeus The Goblet of Life Maidenhood Excelsior Poems on Slavery To William E. Channing The Slave’s Dream The Good Part, that shall not be taken away The Slave in the Dismal Swamp The Slave Singing at Midnight The Witnesses The Quadroon Girl The Warning The Spanish Student The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems Introductory Note Carillon The Belfry of Bruges A Gleam of Sunshine The Arsenal at Springfield Nuremberg The Norman Baron Rain in Summer To a Child The Occultation of Orion The Bridge To the Driving Cloud Songs The Day is done Afternoon in February To an Old Danish Song Book Walter von der Vogelweid Drinking Song The Old Clock on the Stairs The Arrow and the Song Sonnets Mezzo Cammin The Evening Star Autumn Dante Curfew Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie Introductory Note Evangeline The Seaside and the Fireside Introductory Note Dedication By the Seaside The Building of the Ship Seaweed Chrysaor The Secret of the Sea Twilight Sir Humphrey Gilbert The Lighthouse The Fire of Drift-Wood By the Fireside Resignation The Builders Sand of the Desert in an Hour-Glass The Open Window King Witlaf’s Drinking-Horn Gaspar Becerra Pegasus in Pound Tegnér’s Drapa Sonnet, on Mrs. Kemble’s Readings from Shakespeare The Singers Suspiria Hymn for my Brother’s Ordination The Song of Hiawatha Introductory Note Introduction I. The Peace-Pipe II. The Four Winds III. Hiawatha’s Childhood IV. Hiawatha and Mudjekeewis V. Hiawatha’s Fasting VI. Hiawatha’s Friends VII. Hiawatha’s Sailing VIII. Hiawatha’s Fishing IX. Hiawatha and the Pearl-Feather X. Hiawatha’s Wooing XI. Hiawatha’s Wedding-Feast XII. The Son of the Evening Star XIII. Blessing the Cornfields XIV. Picture-Writing XV. Hiawatha’s Lamentation XVI. Pau-Puk-Keewis XVII. The Hunting of Pau-Puk-Keewis XVIII. The Death of Kwasind XIX. The Ghosts XX. The Famine XXI. The White Man’s Foot XXII. Hiawatha’s Departure The Courtship of Miles Standish Introductory Note I. Miles Standish II. Love and Friendship III. The Lover’s Errand IV. John Alden V. The Sailing of the Mayflower VI. Priscilla VII. The March of Miles Standish VIII. The Spinning-Wheel IX. The Wedding-Day Birds of Passage Flight the First Birds of Passage Prometheus, or the Poet’s Forethought Epimetheus, or the Poet’s Afterthought The Ladder of St. Augustine The Phantom Ship The Warden of the Cinque Ports Haunted Houses In the Churchyard at Cambridge The Emperor’s Bird’s-Nest The Two Angels Daylight and Moonlight The Jewish Cemetery at Newport Oliver Basselin Victor Galbraith My Lost Youth The Ropewalk The Golden Mile-Stone Catawba Wine Santa Filomena The Discoverer of the North Cape Daybreak The Fiftieth Birthday of Agassiz Children Sandalphon Flight the Second The Children’s Hour Enceladus The Cumberland Snow-Flakes A Day of Sunshine Something Left Undone Weariness Tales of a Wayside Inn Introductory Note Part First Prelude The Landlord’s Tale: Paul Revere’s Ride Interlude The Student’s Tale: The Falcon of Ser Federigo Interlude The Spanish Jew’s Tale: The Legend of Rabbi Ben Levi Interlude The Sicilian’s Tale: King Robert of Sicily Interlude The Musician’s Tale: The Saga of King Olaf I. The Challenge of Thor II. King Olaf’s Return III. Thora of Rimol IV. Queen Sigrid the Haughty V. The Skerry of Shrieks VI. The Wraith of Odin VII. Iron-Beard VIII. Gudrun IX. Thangbrand the Priest X. Raud the Strong XI. Bishop Sigurd of Salten Fiord XII. King Olaf’s Christmas XIII. The Building of the Long Serpent XIV. The Crew of the Long Serpent XV. A Little Bird in the Air XVI. Queen Thyri and the Angelica Stalks XVII. King Svend of the Forked Beard XVIII. King Olaf and Earl Sigvald XIX. King Olaf’s War-Horns XX. Einar Tamberskelver XXI. King Olaf’s Death-Drink XXII. The Nun of Nidaros Interlude The Theologian’s Tale: Torquemada Interlude The Poet’s Tale: The Birds of Killingworth Finale Part Second Prelude The Sicilian’s Tale: The Bell of Atri Interlude The Spanish Jew’s Tale: Kambalu Interlude The Student’s Tale: The Cobbler of Hagenau Interlude The Musician’s Tale: The Ballad of Carmilhan Interlude The Poet’s Tale: Lady Wentworth Interlude The Theologian’s Tale: The Legend Beautiful Interlude The Student’s Second Tale: The Baron of St. Castine Finale Part Third Prelude The Spanish Jew’s Tale: Azrael Interlude The Poet’s Tale: Charlemagne Interlude The Student’s Tale: Emma and Eginhard Interlude The Theologian’s Tale: Elizabeth Interlude The Sicilian’s Tale: The Monk of Casal-Maggiore Interlude The Spanish Jew’s Second Tale: Scanderbeg Interlude The Musician’s Tale: The Mother’s Ghost Interlude The Landlord’s Tale: The Rhyme of Sir Christopher Finale Flower-de-Luce Flower-de-Luce Palingenesis The Bridge of Cloud Hawthorne Christmas Bells The Wind over the Chimney The Bells of Lynn Killed at the Ford Giotto’s Tower To-morrow Divina Commedia Noël Birds of Passage Flight the Third Fata Morgana The Haunted Chamber The Meeting Vox Populi The Castle-Builder Changed The Challenge The Brook and the Wave Aftermath The Masque of Pandora Introductory I. The Workshop of Hephæstus II. Olympus III. Tower of Prometheus on Mount Caucasus IV. The Air V. The House of Epimetheus VI. In the Garden VII. The House of Epimetheus VIII. In the Garden The Hanging of the Crane Morituri Salutamus A Book of Sonnets Three Friends of Mine Chaucer Shakespeare Milton Keats The Galaxy The Sound of the Sea A Summer Day by the Sea The Tides A Shadow A Nameless Grave Sleep The Old Bridge at Florence Il Ponte Vecchio di Firenze Nature In the Churchyard at Tarrytown Eliot’s Oak The Descent of the Muses Venice The Poets Parker Cleaveland The Harvest Moon To the River Rhone The Three Silences of Molinos The Two Rivers Boston St. John’s, Cambridge Moods Woodstock Park The Four Princesses at Wilna Holidays Wapentake The Broken Oar The Cross of Snow Birds of Passage Flight the Fourth Charles Sumner Travels by the Fireside Cadenabbia Monte Cassino Amalfi The Sermon of St. Francis Belisarius Songo River Kéramos Birds of Passage Flight the Fifth The Herons of Elmwood A Dutch Picture Castles in Spain Vittoria Colonna The Revenge of Rain-in-the-Face To the River Yvette The Emperor’s Glove A Ballad of the French Flee The Leap of Roushan Beg Haroun al Raschid King Trisanku A Wraith in the Mist The Three Kings Song: “Stay, stay at home my heart, and rest” The White Czar Delia Ultima Thule Dedication Poems Bayard Taylor The Chamber over the Gate From my Arm-Chair Jugurtha The Iron Pen Robert Burns Helen of Tyre Elegiac Old St. David’s at Radnor Folk-Songs The Sifting of Peter Maiden and Weathercock The Windmill The Tide rises, the Tide falls Sonnets My Cathedral The Burial of the Poet Night L’Envoi The Poet and his Songs In the Harbor Becalmed The Poet’s Calendar Autumn Within The Four Lakes of Madison Victor and Vanquished Moonlight The Children’s Crusade Sundown Chimes Four by the Clock Auf Wiedersehen Elegiac Verse The City and the Sea Memories Hermes Trismegistus To the Avon President Garfield My Books Mad River Possibilities Decoration Day A Fragment Loss and Gain Inscription on the Shanklin Fountain The Bells of San Blas Fragments “Neglected Record of a Mind Neglected” “O Faithful, Indefatigable Tides” “Soft Through the Silent Air” “So from the Bosom of Darkness” Christus: A Mystery Introductory Note Introitus Part I. The Divine Tragedy The First Passover I. Vox Clamantis II. Mount Quarantania III. The Marriage in Cana IV. In the Cornfields V. Nazareth VI. The Sea of Galilee VII. The Demoniac of Gadara VIII. Talitha Cumi IX. The Tower of Magdala X. The House of Simon the Pharisee The Second Passover I. Before the Gates of Machærus II. Herod’s Banquet-Hall III. Under the Walls of Machærus IV. Nicodemus at Night V. Blind Bartimeus VI. Jacob’s Well VII. The Coasts of Cæsarea Philippi VIII. The Young Ruler IX. At Bethany X. Born Blind XI. Simon Magus and Helen of Tyre The Third Passover I. The Entry into Jerusalem II. Solomon’s Porch III. Lord, is it I? IV. The Garden of Gethsemane V. The Palace of Caiaphas VI. Pontius Pilate VII. Barabbas in Prison VIII. Ecce Homo IX. Aceldama X. The Three Crosses XI. The Two Maries XII. The Sea of Galilee Epilogue: Symbolum Apostolorum First Interlude: The Abbot Joachim Part II. The Golden Legend Prologue: The Spire of Strasburg Cathedral I. The Castle of Vautsberg on the Rhine Court-Yard of the Castle II. A Farm in the Odenwald A Room in the Farm-House Elsie’s Chamber The Chamber of Gottlieb and Ursula A Village Church A Room in the Farm-House In the Garden III. A Street in Strasburg Square in Front of the Cathedral In the Cathedral The Nativity: A Miracle-Play. Introitus I. Heaven II. Mary at the Well III. The Angels of the Seven Planets Bearing the Star of Bethlehem IV. The Wise Men of the East V. The Flight into Egypt VI. The Slaughter of the Innocents VII. Jesus at Play with His Schoolmates VIII. The Village School IX. Crowned with Flowers Epilogue IV. The Road to Hirschau The Convent of Hirschau in the Black Forest The Scriptorium The Cloisters The Chapel The Refectory The Neighboring Nunnery V. A Covered Bridge at Lucerne The Devil’s Bridge The St. Gothard Pass At the Foot of the Alps The Inn at Genoa At Sea VI. The School of Salerno The Farm-House in the Odenwald The Castle of Vautsberg on the Rhine Epilogue: The Two Recording Angels Ascending Second Interlude: Martin Luther Part III. The New England Tragedies John Endicott Prologue Act I Act II Act III Act IV Act V Giles Corey of the Salem Farms Prologue Act I Act II Act III Act IV Act V Finale: St. John Judas Maccabæus Act I. The Citadel of Antiochus at Jerusalem Act II. The Dungeons in the Citadel Act III. The Battle-Field of Beth-Horon Act IV. The Outer Courts of the Temple at Jerusalem Act V. The Mountains of Ecbatana Michael Angelo: A Fragment Dedication Part First I. Prologue at Ischia Monologue: The Last Judgment II. San Silvestro III. Cardinal Ippolito IV. Borgo delle Vergine at Naples V. Vittoria Colonna Part Second I. Monologue II. Viterbo III. Michael Angelo and Benvenuto Cellini IV. Fra Sebastiano del Piombo V. Palazzo Belvedere VI. Palazzo Cesarini Part Third I. Monologue II. Vigna di Papa Giulio III. Bindo Altoviti IV. In the Coliseum V. Macello de’ Corvi VI. Michael Angelo’s Studio VII. The Oaks of Monte Luca VIII. The Dead Christ Introductory Note Translations Prelude From the Spanish Coplas de Manrique Sonnets I. The Good Shepherd II. To-morrow III. The Native Land IV. The Image of God V. The Brook Ancient Spanish Ballads I. Rio Verde, Rio Verde II. Don Nuno, Count of Lara III. The peasant leaves his plough afield Vida de San Millan San Miguel, the Convent Song: She is a maid of artless grace Santa Teresa’s Book-Mark From the Cancioneros I. Eyes so tristful, eyes so tristful II. Some day, some day III. Come, O Death, so silent flying IV. Glove of black in white hand bare From the Swedish and Danish Introductory Note Passages from Frithiof’s Saga I. Frithiof’s Homestead II. A Sledge-ride on the Ice III. Frithiof’s Temptation IV. Frithiof’s Farewell The Children of the Lord’s Supper King Christian The Elected Knight Childhood From the German The Happiest Land The Wave The Dead The Bird and the Ship Whither? Beware! Song of the Bell The Castle by the Sea The Black Knight Song of the Silent Land The Luck of Edenhall The Two Locks of Hair The Hemlock Tree Annie of Tharaw The Statue over the Cathedral Door The Legend of the Crossbill The Sea hath its Pearls Poetic Aphorisms Silent Love Blessed are the Dead Wanderer’s Night-Songs Remorse Forsaken Allah From the Anglo-Saxon The Grave Beowulf’s Expedition to Heort The Soul’s Complaint against the Body From the French Song: Hark! Hark! Song: And whither goest thou, gentle sigh The Return of Spring Spring The Child Asleep Death of Archbishop Turpin The Blind Girl of Castèl Cuillè A Christmas Carol Consolation To Cardinal Richelieu The Angel and the Child On the Terrace of the Aigalades To my Brooklet Barréges Will ever the dear days come back again? At La Chaudeau A Quiet Life The Wine of Jurançon Friar Lubin Rondel My Secret From the Italian The Celestial Pilot The Terrestrial Paradise Beatrice To Italy Seven Sonnets and a Canzone I. The Artist II. Fire III. Youth and Age IV. Old Age V. To Vittoria Colonna VI. To Vittoria Colonna VII. Dante VIII. Canzone The Nature of Love From the Portuguese Song: If thou art sleeping, maiden From the Eastern Sources The Fugitive The Siege of Kazan The Boy and the Brook To the Stork From the Latin Virgil’s First Eclogue Ovid in Exile Appendix I. Juvenile Poems The Battle of Lovell’s Pond To Ianthe Thanksgiving Autumnal Nightfall Italian Scenery The Lunatic Girl The Venetian Gondolier The Angler’s Song Lover’s Rock Dirge over a Nameless Grave A Song of Savoy The Indian Hunter Ode written for the Commemoration at Fryeburg, Maine, of Lovewell’s Fight Jeckoyva The Sea-Diver Musings Song Song of the Birds II. Unacknowledged and Uncollected Translations Let me go warm The Nativity of Christ The Assumption of the Virgin The Disembodied Spirit Ideal Beauty The Lover’s Complaint Art and Nature The Two Harvests Clear Honor of the Liquid Element Praise of Little Women Milagros de Nuestra Señora Song of the Rhine Elegy written in the Ruins of an Old Castle The Stars Rondel The Banks of the Cher To the Forest of Gastine Fontenay Pray for Me Vire A Florentine Song A Neapolitan Canzonet Christmas Carol A Soldier’s Song Tell me, tell me, thou pretty bee Sicilian Canzonet The Gleaner of Sapri III. Notes and Illustrations IV. A Chronological List of Mr. Longfellow’s Poems

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