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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Holidays

Holidays


The holiest of all holidays are those
Kept by ourselves in silence and apart;
The secret anniversaries of the heart,
When the full r…

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Hymn For My Brother's Ordination

Hymn For My Brother's Ordination

Christ to the young man said: 'Yet one thing more;
If thou wouldst perfect be,
Sell all thou hast and give it to the poo…

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Hiawatha's Lamentation

Hiawatha's Lamentation

In those days the Evil Spirits,
All the Manitos of mischief,
Fearing Hiawatha's wisdom,
And his love for Chibiabos,
Je…

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Hiawatha's Wedding-Feast

Hiawatha's Wedding-Feast

You shall hear how Pau-Puk-Keewis,
How the handsome Yenadizze
Danced at Hiawatha's wedding;
How the gentle Chibiabos,

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Hiawatha's Fishing

Hiawatha's Fishing

Forth upon the Gitche Gumee,
On the shining Big-Sea-Water,
With his fishing-line of cedar,
Of the twisted bark of cedar,
F…

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Hiawatha's Departure

Hiawatha's Departure

By the shore of Gitche Gumee,
By the shining Big-Sea-Water,
At the doorway of his wigwam,
In the pleasant Summer morning,

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Hermes Trismegistus

Hermes Trismegistus

Still through Egypt's desert places
Flows the lordly Nile,
From its banks the great stone faces
Gaze with patient smile.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Hiawatha And The Pearl-Feather

Hiawatha And The Pearl-Feather

On the shores of Gitche Gumee,
Of the shining Big-Sea-Water,
Stood Nokomis, the old woman,
Pointing with her finger …

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Good Part, That Shall Not Be Taken Away, The

Good Part, That Shall Not Be Taken Away, The

She dwells by Great Kenhawa's side,
In valleys green and cool;

And all her hope and all her pride

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Haunted Houses. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The First)

Haunted Houses. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The First)

All houses wherein men have lived and died
Are haunted houses. Through the open doors
The harmless p…

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Garfield

Garfield


'E venni dal martirio a questa pace.'

These words the poet heard in Paradise,
Uttered by one who, bravely dying here,
In the t…

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Frithiof's Temptation. (From The Swedish)

Frithiof's Temptation. (From The Swedish)

Spring is coming, birds are twittering, forests leaf, and smiles the sun,
And the loosened torrents downward, singing…

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Forsaken. (From The German)

Forsaken. (From The German)

Something the heart must have to cherish,
Must love and joy and sorrow learn,
Something with passion clasp, or perish,
…

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Friar Lubin. (From The French)

Friar Lubin. (From The French)

To gallop off to town post-haste,
So oft, the times I cannot tell;
To do vile deed, nor feel disgraced,--
Friar Lubin…

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Flowers-De-Luce: Noël

Flowers-De-Luce: Noël

Quand les astres de Noël
Brillaient, palpitaient au ciel,
Six gaillards, et chacun ivre,
Chantaient gaiment dans le givre,

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Flower-De-Luce: To-Morrow

Flower-De-Luce: To-Morrow

'Tis late at night, and in the realm of sleep
My little lambs are folded like the flocks;
From room to room I hear the wakeful …

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Flower-De-Luce: Palingenesis

Flower-De-Luce: Palingenesis

I lay upon the headland-height, and listened
To the incessant sobbing of the sea
In caverns under me,
And watched the …

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Flower-De-Luce: The Bridge Of Cloud

Flower-De-Luce: The Bridge Of Cloud

Burn, O evening hearth, and waken
Pleasant visions, as of old!
Though the house by winds be shaken,
Safe I keep…

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Flower-De-Luce: Hawthorne

Flower-De-Luce: Hawthorne

How beautiful it was, that one bright day
In the long week of rain!
Though all its splendor could not chase away
The omni…

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Flower-De-Luce: Divina Commedia

Flower-De-Luce: Divina Commedia

I.
Oft have I seen at some cathedral door
A laborer, pausing in the dust and heat,
Lay down his burden, and with re…

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Fire. (Sonnet II.)

Fire. (Sonnet II.)

Not without fire can any workman mould
The iron to his preconceived design,
Nor can the artist without fire refine
And purify fr…

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Famine, The

Famine, The

Oh the long and dreary Winter!
Oh the cold and cruel Winter!
Ever thicker, thicker, thicker
Froze the ice on lake and river,
Ever…

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Evening Star, The

Evening Star, The

Lo! in the painted oriel of the West,

Whose panes the sunken sun incarnadines,

Like a fair lady at her casement, shines

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Evangeline: Part The Second. V.

Evangeline: Part The Second. V.

IN that delightful land, which is washed by the Delaware's waters,
Guarding in sylvan shades the name of Penn the apostle.

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