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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 
 
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
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. 
Part First 
             Prelude 
             The  Wayside  Inn 
            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    
    
		
	
	
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