Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year eighteen hundred and forty-two, by H. W. Longfellow, in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.
CAMBRIDGE:
METCALF, KEITH, AND NICHOLS,
PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY.
[CONTENTS.]
| page | |
| To William E. Channing | [9] |
| The Slave's Dream | [11] |
| The Good Part | [15] |
| The Slave in the Dismal Swamp | [18] |
| The Slave singing at Midnight | [21] |
| The Witnesses | [23] |
| The Quadroon Girl | [26] |
| The Warning | [30] |
[The following poems, with one exception, were written at sea, in the latter part of October. I had not then heard of Dr. Channing's death. Since that event, the poem addressed to him is no longer appropriate. I have decided, however, to let it remain as it was written, a feeble testimony of my admiration for a great and good man.]