THE NEW YORK
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ASTOR, LENOX AND
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Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1856, by

IIENRY W. LONGFELLOW, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of

Massachusetos.

in the year

RIVERSIDE, OAMBRIDGE:
STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY A. 0. HOUGHTON.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.

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VOICES OF THE NIGIIT.

Prelude........

VOICES OF THE NIGIIT.

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....

TRANSLATIONS.

Coplas de Manrique......

The Good Shepherd....

To Morrow..

The Native Land..........

The Image of God.........

The Brook..

The Celestial Pilot..

The Terrestrial Paradise..................

Beatrice...

Spring.......................................

The Child Asleep..........................

The Grave..

King Christian.

The Happiest Land...............................

The Wave...................

The Deud.........

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The Bird and the Ship........

Whither?...

Beware!..

Song of the Bell. ...........

The Castle by the Sea...

The Black Knight....

Song of the Silent Land........

L'Envoi.......................................

BALLADS AND OTHER POEMS.

Preface.....

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BALLADS.

The Skeleton in Armour. .............

The Wreck of the Hesperus..................

The Luck of Edenhall.......

The Elected Knight...............................

THE CHILDREN OF THE LORD'S SUPPER.

The Children of the Lord's Supper. ................ 105

MISCELLANEOUS.

The Village Blacksmith. ........

The Two Locks of Hair..

It is not always May...........

181

The Rainy Day ..............

132

God's-Acre...................

132

To the River Charles.

........ 133

Blind Bartimeus....

The Goblet of Life...

135

Maidenhood...

137

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indymion.....................................

.. 128

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Excelsior ........................................

POEMS ON SLAVERY,

To William E. Channing.

.. 143

The Slave's Dream

... 144

The Good Part........

- 146

The Slave in the Dismal Swamp..

op............... ... 147

The Slave singing at Midnight..................

48

The Witnesses. ::::

. 149

The Quadroon Girl.......

..................... 150

The Warning..........

THE SPANISH STUDENT.

PAGI

The Spanish Student..........

... 155

THE BELFRY OF BRUGES AND OTHER POEMS.

Carillon.....

The Belfry of Bruges.........

.. 233

MISCELLANEOUS.

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.........

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SONGS.

Seaweed.......

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265

The Day is done..........

266

Afternoon in February ......

To an Old Danish Song-Book..

269

Walter von der Vogelweide...............

271

Drinking Song...........................

. 273

The Old Clock on the Stairs ...

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The Arrow and the Song.....

......................... 277

SONNETS.

The Evening Star.........

Autumn ....

............... 281

Dante.............................,

282

TRANSLATIONS.

The Hemlock-Tree....

Annie of Tharaw......

Tho Statue over the Cathedral Door........

The Legend of the Crossbill.......,

The Sea hath its Pearls.......................

Poetic Aphorisms..........................

Variew..........................................

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TIIE SEASIDE AND TIIE FIRESIDE.

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Dedication........

BY THE SEASIDE.

The Building of the Ship.......

803

The Evening Star......

814

The Secret of the Sea...................

Twilight ..............................

316

Sir Humphrey Gilbert...

317

The Lighthouse......................

The Fire of Drift-wood ...

320

BY THE FIRESIDE.

Resignation..........

325

The Builders ....

327

Sand of the Desert in an Hour-glass .....

328

Birds of Passage.................

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The Open Window.

331

King Witlaf's Drinking-horn .........

332

Gaspar Becerra ....

333

Pegasus in Pound ............

334

Tegner's Drapa ..................

336

Sonnet ............

The Singers ...............................

339

Suspiria...

340

Hymn ......................................

341

TRANSLATIONS.

The Blind Girl of Castèl-Cuille .

345

A Christmas Carol ...

............................ 356

BIRDS OF PASSAGE.

Prometheus, or the Poet's Forethought.

361

The Ladder of Saint Augustine...........

The Phantom Ship...................

365

The Warden of the Cinque Ports. .... ....

366

Haunted Houses........

In the Churchyard at Cambridge........

370

The Emperor's Bird's-Nest. .......

371

The Two Angels..............................

372

Daylight and Moonlight........

374

The Jewish Cemetery at Newport.....

375

Oliver Basselin.....

339

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