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Complete Poetical Works

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.

Bibliographic Record

Contents

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

Hymn to the Night

A Psalm of Life

The Reaper and the Flowers

The Light of Stars

Footsteps of Angels

The Beleaguered City

Midnight Mass for the Dying Year

Earlier Poems

Autumn

Woods in Winter

Hymn of the Moravian Nuns of Bethlehem

Sunrise on the Hills

The Spirit of Poetry

Burial of the Minnisink

Ballads and Other Poems

The Skeleton in Armor

The Wreck of the Hesperus

The Village Blacksmith

It is not always May

To the River Charles

Blind Bartimeus

The Goblet of Life

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 Quadroon Girl

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

The Norman Baron

The Occultation of Orion

To the Driving Cloud

Songs

The Day is done

Afternoon in February

To an Old Danish Song Book

Walter von der Vogelweid

The Old Clock on the Stairs

The Arrow and the Song

Sonnets

The Evening Star

Autumn

Dante

Curfew

Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie

Introductory Note

The Seaside and the Fireside

Introductory Note

By the Seaside

The Building of the Ship

Seaweed

Chrysaor

The Secret of the Sea

Twilight

Sir Humphrey Gilbert

The Fire of Drift-Wood

By the Fireside

Sand of the Desert in an Hour-Glass

The Open Window

King Witlaf’s Drinking-Horn

Pegasus in Pound

Tegnér’s Drapa

Sonnet, on Mrs. Kemble’s Readings from Shakespeare

Suspiria

Hymn for my Brother’s Ordination

The Song of Hiawatha

Introductory Note

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

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

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

In the Churchyard at Cambridge

The Emperor’s Bird’s-Nest

Daylight and Moonlight

The Jewish Cemetery at Newport

Oliver Basselin

Victor Galbraith

The Golden Mile-Stone

The Discoverer of the North Cape

The Fiftieth Birthday of Agassiz

Flight the Second

The Children’s Hour

A Day of Sunshine

Something Left Undone

Tales of a Wayside Inn

Introductory Note

Part First

Prelude

The Landlord’s Tale: Paul Revere’s Ride

The Student’s Tale: The Falcon of Ser Federigo

The Spanish Jew’s Tale: The Legend of Rabbi Ben Levi

The Sicilian’s Tale: King Robert of Sicily

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

The Theologian’s Tale: Torquemada

The Poet’s Tale: The Birds of Killingworth

Finale

Part Second

Prelude

The Sicilian’s Tale: The Bell of Atri

The Spanish Jew’s Tale: Kambalu

The Student’s Tale: The Cobbler of Hagenau

The Musician’s Tale: The Ballad of Carmilhan

The Poet’s Tale: Lady Wentworth

The Theologian’s Tale: The Legend Beautiful

The Student’s Second Tale: The Baron of St. Castine

Finale

Part Third

Prelude

The Spanish Jew’s Tale: Azrael

The Poet’s Tale: Charlemagne

The Student’s Tale: Emma and Eginhard

The Theologian’s Tale: Elizabeth

The Sicilian’s Tale: The Monk of Casal-Maggiore

The Spanish Jew’s Second Tale: Scanderbeg

The Musician’s Tale: The Mother’s Ghost

The Landlord’s Tale: The Rhyme of Sir Christopher

Finale

Flower-de-Luce

The Bridge of Cloud

Christmas Bells

The Wind over the Chimney

The Bells of Lynn

Killed at the Ford

Giotto’s Tower

Divina Commedia

Noël

Birds of Passage

Flight the Third

The Haunted Chamber

The Castle-Builder

The Brook and the Wave

The Masque of Pandora

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

Milton

Keats

The Sound of the Sea

A Summer Day by the Sea

A Nameless Grave

Sleep

The Old Bridge at Florence

Il Ponte Vecchio di Firenze

Nature

In the Churchyard at Tarrytown

The Descent of the Muses

Venice

Parker Cleaveland

The Harvest Moon

To the River Rhone

The Three Silences of Molinos

Boston

St. John’s, Cambridge

Moods

The Four Princesses at Wilna

The Cross of Snow

Birds of Passage

Flight the Fourth

Travels by the Fireside

Amalfi

The Sermon of St. Francis

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

A Wraith in the Mist

The Three Kings

Song: "Stay, stay at home my heart, and rest"

Delia

Ultima Thule

Poems

The Chamber over the Gate

From my Arm-Chair

Old St. David’s at Radnor

Folk-Songs

The Sifting of Peter

Maiden and Weathercock

The Tide rises, the Tide falls

Sonnets

The Burial of the Poet

Night

L’Envoi

The Poet and his Songs

In the Harbor

The Poet’s Calendar

The Four Lakes of Madison

Victor and Vanquished

The Children’s Crusade

Chimes

Four by the Clock

Auf Wiedersehen

The City and the Sea

Hermes Trismegistus

President Garfield

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

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

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

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

IV. The Road to Hirschau

The Convent of Hirschau in the Black Forest

The Scriptorium

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

Act I

Act II

Act IV

Act V

Giles Corey of the Salem Farms

Act I

Act II

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

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

II. Viterbo

III. Michael Angelo and Benvenuto Cellini

IV. Fra Sebastiano del Piombo

V. Palazzo Belvedere

VI. Palazzo Cesarini

Part Third

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

From the Spanish

Coplas de Manrique

Sonnets

I. The Good Shepherd

II. To-morrow

III. The Native Land

IV. The Image of God

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

The Elected Knight

From the German

The Happiest Land

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

Blessed are the Dead

Wanderer’s Night-Songs

Allah

From the Anglo-Saxon

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

To Cardinal Richelieu

The Angel and the Child

On the Terrace of the Aigalades

Will ever the dear days come back again?

The Wine of Jurançon

Rondel

From the Italian

The Celestial Pilot

The Terrestrial Paradise

Seven Sonnets and a Canzone

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 Siege of Kazan

The Boy and the Brook

From the Latin

Virgil’s First Eclogue

Appendix

I. Juvenile Poems

The Battle of Lovell’s Pond

Autumnal Nightfall

Italian Scenery

The Lunatic Girl

The Venetian Gondolier

The Angler’s Song

Dirge over a Nameless Grave

A Song of Savoy

The Indian Hunter

Ode written for the Commemoration at Fryeburg, Maine, of Lovewell’s Fight

Song

Song of the Birds

II. Unacknowledged and Uncollected Translations

The Nativity of Christ

The Assumption of the Virgin

The Disembodied Spirit

The Lover’s Complaint

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

Rondel

The Banks of the Cher

To the Forest of Gastine

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