Chapter I: Front Matter

THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS OF HENRY WADSWORTH COMPLETE WORKS OF 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
Tegnér’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 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
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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
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 at 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 Casa-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.
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

KERAMOS

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 or the French Fleet
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.
Introitus