BY

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HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW.

COMPLETE IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOLUME I.

7718

BOSTON:
TICKNOR AND FIELDS.

M DCCC LXI.

THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY

202244B

ASTOR, LENOX AND
TILDEN FOUNDATIONS

1942

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856, by

HENRY W. LONGFELLOW, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of

Massachusetts.

RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE:

STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY . 0. HOUGHTON.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.

VOICES OF THE NIGHT.

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13

Prelude...........................

VOICES OF THE NIGHT.

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 Minnisin

TRANSLATIONS.

Coplas de Manrique......

The Good Shepherd............................

To Morrow .......

The Native Land..

The Image of God. .........

The Brook......

The Celestial Pilot ....

The Terrestrial Paradise, ........

Beatrice.........

The Child Asleep......................
The Grave. .....

King Christian..

The Happiest Land..

The Wave...

The Dead...

Spling................................

60

63

65

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66

67

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The Bird and the Ship..........

Whither?...

Beware!....

68

Song of the Bell..................................

The Castle by the Sea..........................

The Black Knight......................

Song of the Silent Land....

L'Envoi..........................................

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.......

100

BALLADS AND OTHER POEMS.

Preface..........

... ....

BALLADS.

The Skeleton in Armour......

The Wreck of the Hesperus....

The Luck of Edenhall.....

The Elected Knight...................

THE CHILDREN OF THE LORD'S SUPPER.

The Children of the Lord's Supper.. ...... 105

MISCELLANEOUS.

The Village Blacksmith. .......

......... 127

127

Endymion.......

The Two Locks of Hair....

130

It is not always May.........

The Rainy Day ....................

132

God's-Acre.....

......... 132

To the River Charles.....

......... 133

Blind Bartimeus....

The Goblet of Life.

135

Maidenhood........

.... 137

Excelsior........

.................. 139

128

131

.... 134

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145

POEMS ON SLAVERY.

To William E. Channing...............

143

The Slave's Dream..........

144

The Good Part..........

145

The Slave in the Dismal Swamp.........

... 147

The Slave singing at Midnight..............

The Witnesses........

... 149

The Quadroon Girl.....

... 150

The Warning.....