Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1868, by

Henry TV. Longfellow,

In the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of

Maasa-ohusetts.

RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE:
STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED B7 H. 0. HOUGHTON

CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.

VOICES OF THE NIGHT.

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Prelude... 3

VOICES OF THE NIGHT.

Hvmn to the Night 9

A'Psalm of Life 10

The Reaper and the Flowers 11

The Light of Stars 12

Footsteps of Angels 13

Flowers . 15

The Beleaguered City 17

Midnight Mass for the Dying Year 19

EARLIER POEMS.

An April Day 23

Autumn 24

Woods in Winter 25

Hvmn of the Moravian Nuns of Bethlehem 26

Sunrise on the Hills 28

The Spirit of Poetry 29

Burial of the Minnisink 31

TRANSLATIONS.

Coplas de Manrique 35

The Good Shepherd 51

To Morrow 51

The Native Land 62

The Image of God. 52

The Brook 53

The Celestial Pilot 54

The Terrestrial Paradise 55

Beatrice 57

Spring 59

The Child Asleep 60

The Grave 60

King Christian 62

The" Happiest Land 63

The Wave. 65

The Dead 6?

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The Bird and the Ship 66

Whither? 67

Beware! 68

Song of the Bell 69

The Castle by the Sea 70

The Black Knight 71

Song of the Silent Land 73

L' Envoi. 74

BALLADS AND OTHER POEMS.

Preface 77

BALLADS.

The Skeleton in Armour 89

The Wreck of the Hesperus 95

The Luck of Edenhall 98

The Elected Knight 100

THE CHILDREN OF THE LORD'S SUPPER.

The Children of the Lord's Supper 105

MISCELLANEOUS.

The Village Blacksmith 127

Endvmion , 128

The'Two Locks of Hair 130

It is not always May. .x 131

The Rainy Day 132

God's-Acre 132

To the River Charles 133

Blind Bartimeus 134

The Goblet of Life 135

Maidenhood 137

Excelsior 139

POEMS ON SLAVERY.

To William E. Channing. 143

The Slave's Dream 141

The Good Part 145

The Slave in the Dismal Swamp 147

The Slave singing at Midnight 148

The Witnesses 149

The Quadroon Girl 150

The Warning 152

CONTEXTS.

TELE SPANISH STUDENT.

PAGl

The Spanish Student..., 155

THE BELFRY OF BRUGES AND OTHER POEMS.

Carillon 227

The Belfry of Bruges 233

MISCELLANEOUS.

A Gleam of Sunshine 239

The Arsenal at Springfield 241

Nuremberg 243

The Norman Baron.... 248

Rain in Summer 248

To a Child 251

The Occultation of Orion 256

The Bridge 259

To the Driving Cloud 261

SONGS.

Seaweed. 265

The Day is done • 266

Afternoon in February 268

To an Old Danish Song-Book 269

Walter von der Vogelweide 271

Drinking Song 273

The Old Clock on the Stairs 274

The Arrow and the Song 277

SONNETS.

The Evening Star 281

Autumn 281

Dante 282

TRANSLATIONS.

The Hemlock-Tree 285

Annie of Tharaw 286

The Statue over the Cathedral Door 287

The Legend of the Crossbill 288

The Sea hath its Pearls 289

Poetic Aphorisms 290

Curfew 295