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]
[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]
[NOTES]
[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]
[PART I. THE DIVINE TRAGEDY.]
[The First Passover]
[I. Vox Clamantis]
[II. Mount Quarantania]
[III. The Marriage in Cana]
[IV. In the Cornfields]
[V. Nazareth]
[VI. The Sea of Galilee]
[VII. The Demoniac of Gadara]
[VIII. Talitha Cumi]
[IX. The Tower of Magdala]
[X. The House of Simon the Pharisee]
[The Second Passover]
[I. Before the Gates of Machaerus]
[II. Herod’s Banquet-Hall]
[III. Under the Wall of Machaerus]
[IV. Nicodemus at Night]
[V. Blind Bartimeus]
[VI. Jacob’s Well]
[VII. The Coasts of Caesarea Philippi]
[VIII. The Young Ruler]
[IX. At Bethany]
[X. Born Blind]
[XI. Simon Magus and Helen of Tyre]
[The Third Passover]
[I. The Entry into Jerusalem]
[II. Solomon’s Porch]
[III. Lord, is it I?]
[IV. The Garden of Gethsemane]
[V. The Palace of Caiaphas]
[VI. Pontius Pilate]
[VII. Barabbas in Prison]
[VIII. Ecce Homo]
[IX. Aceldama]
[X. The Three Crosses]
[XI. The Two Maries]
[XII. The Sea of Galilee]
[Epilogue. Symbolum Apostolorum]
[First Interlude. The Abbot Joachim]
[PART II. THE GOLDEN LEGEND.]
[Prologue: The Spire of Strasburg Cathedral]
[I. The Castle of Vautsberg on the Rhine]
[Courtyard of the Castle]
[II. A Farm in the Odenwald]
[A Room in the Farmhouse]
[Elsie’s Chamber]
[The Chamber of Gottlieb and Ursula]
[A Village Church]
[A Room in the Farmhouse]
[In the Garden]
[III. A Street in Strasburg]
[Square in Front of the Cathedral]
[In the Cathedral]
[The Nativity: A Miracle-Play]
[Introitus]
[I. Heaven]
[II. Mary at the Well]
[III. The Angels of the Seven Planets]
[IV. The Wise Men of the East]
[V. The Flight into Egypt]
[VI. The Slaughter of the Innocents]
[VII. Jesus at Play with his Schoolmates]
[VIII. The Village School]
[IX. Crowned with Flowers]
[Epilogue]
[IV. The Road to Hirschau]
[The Convent of Hirschau in the Black Forest]
[The Scriptorium]
[The Cloisters]
[The Chapel]
[The Refectory]
[The Neighboring Nunnery]
[V. A Covered Bridge at Lucerne]
[The Devil’s Bridge]
[The St. Gothard Pass]
[At the Foot of the Alps]
[The Inn at Genoa]
[At Sea]
[VI. The School of Salerno]
[The Farm-house in the Odenwald]
[The Castle of Vautsberg on the Rhine]
[Epilogue. The Two Recording Angels Ascending]
[Second Interlude. Martin Luther]
[PART III. THE NEW ENGLAND TRAGEDIES.]
[John Endicott]
[Prologue]
[Act I.]
[Act II.]
[Act III.]
[Act IV.]
[Act V.]
[Giles Corey of the Salem Farms]
[Prologue]
[Act I.]
[Act II.]
[Act III.]
[Act IV.]
[Act V.]
[Finale. St. John]
[JUDAS MACCABAEUS]
[Act I. The Citadel of Antiochus at Jerusalem]
[Act II. The Dungeons in the Citadel]
[Act III. The Battle-field of Beth-Horon]
[Act IV. The Outer Courts of the Temple at Jerusalem]
[Act V. The Mountains of Ecbatana]
[MICHAEL ANGELO]
[Dedication]
[PART FIRST]
[I. Prologue at Ischia]
[Monologue : The Last Judgment]
[II. San Silvestro]
[III. Cardinal Ippolito]
[IV. Borgo delle Vergine at Naples]
[V. Vittoria Colonna]
[PART SECOND.]
[I. Monologue]
[II. Viterbo]
[III. Michael Angelo and Benvenuto Cellini]
[IV. Fra Sebastiano del Piombo]
[V. Palazzo Belvedere]
[VI. Palazzo Cesarini]
[PART THIRD.]
[I. Monologue]
[II. Vigna di Papa Giulio]
[III. Bindo Altoviti]
[IV. In the Coliseum]
[V. Macello de’ Corvi]
[VI. Michael Angelo’s Studio]
[VII. The Oaks of Monte Luca]
[VIII. The Dead Christ]
[TRANSLATIONS.]
[Prelude]
[From the Spanish: Coplas de Manrique]
[Sonnets.]
[I. The Good Shepherd]
[II. To-morrow]
[III. The Native Land]
[IV. The Image of God]
[V. The Brook]
[Ancient Spanish Ballads.]
[I. Rio Verde, Rio Verde]
[II. Don Nuno, Count of Lara]
[III. The peasant leaves his plough afield]
[Vida de San Millan]
[San Miguel, the Convent]
[Song: “She is a maid of artless grace”]
[Santa Teresa’s Book-Mark]
[From the Cancioneros]
[I. Eyes so tristful, eyes so tristful]
[II. Some day, some day]
[III. Come, O death, so silent flying]
[IV. Glove of black in white hand bare]
[From the Swedish and Danish.]
[Passages from Frithiof’s Saga]
[I. Frithiof’s Homestead]
[II. A Sledge-Ride on the Ice]
[III. Frithiof’s Temptation]
[IV. Frithiof’s Farewell]
[The Children of the Lord’s Supper]
[King Christian]
[The Elected Knight]
[Childhood]
[From the German.]
[The Happiest Land]
[The Wave]
[The Dead]
[The Bird and the Ship]
[Whither?]
[Beware!]
[Song of the Bell]
[The Castle by the Sea]
[The Black Knight]
[Song of the Silent Land]
[The Luck of Edenhall]
[The Two Locks of Hair]
[The Hemlock Tree]
[Annie of Tharaw]
[The Statue over the Cathedral Door]
[The Legend of the Crossbill]
[The Sea hath its Pearls]
[Poetic Aphorisms]
[Silent Love]
[Blessed are the Dead]
[Wanderer’s Night-Songs]
[Remorse]
[Forsaken]
[Allah]
[From the Anglo-Saxon.]
[The Grave]
[Beowulf’s Expedition to Heort]
[The Soul’s Complaint against the Body]
[From the French]
[Song: Hark! Hark!]
[Song: “And whither goest thou, gentle sigh”]
[The Return of Spring]
[Spring]
[The Child Asleep]
[Death of Archbishop Turpin]
[The Blind Girl of Castel-Cuille]
[A Christmas Carol]
[Consolation]
[To Cardinal Richelieu]
[The Angel and the Child]
[On the Terrace of the Aigalades]
[To my Brooklet]
[Barréges]
[Will ever the dear days come back again?]
[At La Chaudeau]
[A Quiet Life]
[The Wine of Jurançon]
[Friar Lubin]
[Rondel]
[My Secret]
[From the Italian.]
[The Celestial Pilot]
[The Terrestrial Paradise]
[Beatrice]
[To Italy]
[Seven Sonnets and a Canzone]
[I. The Artist]
[II. Fire.]
[III. Youth and Age]
[IV. Old Age]
[V. To Vittoria Colonna]
[VI. To Vittoria Colonna]
[VII. Dante]
[VIII. Canzone]
[The Nature of Love]
[From the Portuguese.]
[Song: If thou art sleeping, maiden]
[From Eastern sources.]
[The Fugitive]
[The Siege of Kazan]
[The Boy and the Brook]
[To the Stork]
[From the Latin.]
[Virgils First Eclogue]
[Ovid in Exile]

VOICES OF THE NIGHT

Πότνια, πότνια νὺξ,
ὑπνοδότειρα τῶν πολυπόνον βροτῶν,
Ἐρεβόθεν ἴθι μόλε μόλε κατάπτερος
Ἀγαμεμνόνιον ἐπὶ δόμον
ὑπὸ γὰρ ἀλγέων, ὑπὸ τε συμφορᾶς
διοιχόμεθ’, οἰχόμεθα.

EURIPIDES.

PRELUDE