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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1807 - 1882
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A Ballad Of The French Fleet
OCTOBER, 1746 / MR. THOMAS PRINCE loquitur. / A fleet with flags arrayed
A Day Of Sunshine
O gift of God! O perfect day: / Whereon shall no man work, but play; / Whereon it is enough for me,
A Dutch Picture
Simon Danz has come home again, / From cruising about with his buccaneers; / He has singed the beard of the King of Spain,
A Fragment
Awake! arise! the hour is late! / Angels are knocking at thy door! / They are in haste and cannot wait,
A Gleam Of Sunshine
This is the place. Stand still, my steed, / Let me review the scene, / And summon from the shadowy Past
A Nameless Grave
"A soldier of the Union mustered out," / Is the inscription on an unknown grave / At Newport News, beside the salt-sea wave,
A Psalm Of Life. What The Heart Of The Young Man Said To The Psalmist
Tell me not, in mournful numbers, / Life is but an empty dream! / For the soul is dead that slumbers,
A Shadow
I said unto myself, if I were dead, / What would befall these children? What would be / Their fate, who now are looking up to me
A Summer Day By The Sea
The sun is set; and in his latest beams / Yon little cloud of ashen gray and gold, / Slowly upon the amber air unrolled,
A Wraith In The Mist
"Sir, I should build me a fortification, if I / came to live here." --BOSWELL'S Johnson. / On the green little isle of Inchkenneth,
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