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Poems on Slavery

Poems on Slavery

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POEMS
ON
SLAVERY.

BY

HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW.

SECOND EDITION.

CAMBRIDGE:
PUBLISHED BY JOHN OWEN.


M DCCC XLII.


Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year eighteen hundred and forty-two, by H. W. Longfellow, in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.


CAMBRIDGE:
METCALF, KEITH, AND NICHOLS,
PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY.


CONTENTS.

  page
To William E. Channing 9
The Slave's Dream 11
The Good Part 15
The Slave in the Dismal Swamp 18
The Slave singing at Midnight 21
The Witnesses 23
The Quadroon Girl 26
The Warning 30

[The following poems, with one exception, were written at sea, in the latter part of October. I had not then heard of Dr. Channing's death. Since that event, the poem addressed to him is no longer appropriate. I have decided, however, to let it remain as it was written, a feeble testimony of my admiration for a great and good man.]


POEMS.

The noble horse,
That, in his fiery youth, from his wide nostrils
Neighed courage to his rider, and brake through
Groves of opposed pikes, bearing his lord
Safe to

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