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Title: The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Release Date: July 3, 2004 [EBook #1365]

Language: English

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THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW

(From the PUBLISHER'S NOTE: "The present Household Edition of Mr. Longfellow's Poetical Writings . . . contains all his original verse that he wished to preserve, and all his translations except the Divina Commedia. The poems are printed as nearly as possible in chronological order . . . Boston, Autumn, 1902." Houghton Mifflin Company.)

CONTENTS.
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.
        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.

THE SEASIDE AND THE FIRESIDE.
           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
           Tegner's Drapa
           Sonnet on Mrs. Kemble's Reading from Shakespeare
           The Singers
           Suspiria
           Hymn for my Brother's Ordination

THE SONG OF HIAWATHA.
           Introduction
           I. The Peace-Pipe
          II. The Four Winds
         III. Hiawatha's Childhood
          IV. Hiawatha and Madjekeewis
           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
               <NOTES>

THE COURTSHIP OF MILES STANDISH.
           I. Miles Standish
          II. Love and Friendship
         III. The Lover's Errand
          IV. John Alden
           V. The Sailing of the May flower
          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