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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
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