Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems and Other Writings (Library of America) Book

from The Voices of the Night
The Spirit of Poetry	1
Hymn to the Night	2
A Psalm of Life	3
The Light of Stars	4
Footsteps of Angels	6
from Ballads and Other Poems
The Skeleton in Armor	8
The Wreck of the Hesperus	12
The Village Blacksmith	15
It Is Not Always May	17
The Rainy Day	18
God's-Acre	18
To the River Charles	19
The Goblet of Life	20
Excelsior	22
from Poems on Slavery
The Slave's Dream	24
The Slave Singing at Midnight	25
The Witnesses	26
The Warning	27
from The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems
The Belfry of Bruges	29
A Gleam of Sunshine	31
The Arsenal at Springfield	33
Rain in Summer	35
To a Child	37
The Occultation of Orion	43
The Bridge	45
To the Driving Cloud	47
The Day Is Done	48
Afternoon in February	50
The Old Clock on the Stairs	51
The Arrow and the Song	53
The Evening Star	53
Autumn	54
Dante	54
Curfew	55
Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie	57
from The Seaside and the Fireside
The Building of the Ship	116
Seaweed	127
Chrysaor	128
Twilight	129
Sir Humphrey Gilbert	130
The Lighthouse	131
The Fire of Drift-Wood	133
Resignation	135
The Builders	136
Sand of the Desert in an Hour-Glass	138
The Open Window	139
The Song of Hiawatha	141
from The Courtship of Miles Standish and Other Poems
The Courtship of Miles Standish	280
Birds of Passage	323
The Ladder of St. Augustine	324
The Phantom Ship	326
The Warden of the Cinque Ports	328
Haunted Houses	329
In the Churchyard at Cambridge	331
The Emperor's Bird's-Nest	331
The Two Angels	333
Daylight and Moonlight	335
The Jewish Cemetery at Newport	335
My Lost Youth	337
The Ropewalk	340
Daybreak	342
The Fiftieth Birthday of Agassiz	343
Children	344
Sandalphon	345
Poems 1859-1863
The Children's Hour	347
Enceladus	348
The Cumberland	349
Snow-Flakes	351
A Day of Sunshine	351
Something Left Undone	352
Weariness	353
from Tales of a Wayside Inn
Part First
Prelude: The Wayside Inn	354
The Landlord's Tale: Paul Revere's Ride	362
Interlude	366
The Student's Tale: The Falcon of Ser Federigo	367
Interlude	375
The Spanish Jew's Tale: The Legend of Rabbi Ben Levi	376
Interlude	378
The Sicilian's Tale: King Robert of Sicily	379
Interlude	385
The Musician's Tale: The Saga of King Olaf	386
Interlude	431
The Theologian's Tale: Torquemada	433
Interlude	439
The Poet's Tale: The Birds of Killingworth	440
Finale	446
from Part Second
The Spanish Jew's Talc: Kambalu	447
The Student's Tale: The Cobbler of Hagenau	450
The Theologian's Tale: The Legend Beautiful	456
from Part Third
The Spanish Jew's Tale: Azrael	460
The Sicilian's Tale: The Monk of Casal-Maggiore	461
Finale	469
from Flower-de-Luce
Palingenesis	472
Hawthorne	474
Christmas Bells	475
The Wind Over the Chimney	476
Killed at the Ford	478
Giotto's Tower	479
Divina Commedia	480
from Christus: A Mystery
from The Divine Tragedy
Mount Quarantania	483
The Tower of Magdala	485
Let Me Go Warm	695
The Sea Hath Its Pearls	696
Retribution	697
The Grave	697
Rondel	698
The Artist	699
To Vittoria Colonna	699
Dante	700
A Neapolitan Canzonet	700
Selected Prose
Kavanagh, A Tale	703
The Literary Spirit of Our Country	791
Table-Talk	796
Address on the Death of Washington Irving	800
Chronology	805
Note on the Texts	816
Notes	824
Index of Titles and First Lines	850