Selected PoemsPenguin, 1988 M01 1 - 432 pages
Longfellow was the most popular poet of his day. This selection includes generous samplings from his longer works—Evangeline, The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Hiawatha—as well as his shorter lyrics and less familiar narrative poems. |
Contents
Evangeline A Tale of Acadie 1847 | 3 |
From The Song of Hiawatha 1855 | 77 |
The Courtship of Miles Standish 1858 | 92 |
From Tales of a Wayside Inn 1863 | 148 |
The New England Tragedies 1868 | 167 |
Morituri Salutamus 1875 | 321 |
From Voices of the Night 1839 | 333 |
From Poems on Slavery 1842 | 347 |
From The Seaside and the Fireside 1850 | 357 |
From Tales of a Wayside Inn 1863 | 370 |
Posthumously collected | 376 |
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Acadian answer Basil beautiful behold BELLINGHAM birds Bridget Bishop burning CHRISTISON church COLE crowd darkness dead death door dream EDITH England Enter Evangeline Exeunt Exit eyes face FARMER father feet fire forest Gabriel GARDNER Giles Corey gleamed golden Goodwife Grand-Pré grave hand hath HATHORNE hear heard heart heaven Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Hiawatha Indian John Alden JOHN ENDICOTT John Gloyd KEMPTHORN land laughed light Longfellow look Lord loud Magistrates maiden MARTHA MARTHA COREY MARY meadows Meeting-house MERRY Miles Standish Mondamin night Nokomis NORTON o'er Plymouth poem pray priest Priscilla prison Puritan Quakers river rose sail SCENE shadow shore silent song Song of Hiawatha sorrow soul sound spake speak spirit stood street sweet thee thou thought TITUBA town unto UPSALL vanished village voice whispered wind window Witch Witchcraft woman wonder woods words youth