Selected PoemsPenguin, 1988 M01 1 - 432 páginas
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. |
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... turned out to be one of the finest poems ever delivered at an academic celebration. The title, meaning “We who are about to die salute you”—the Roman gladiator's traditional greeting to the emperor— suggests the combination of gusto and ...
... turned at length to speak to their silent companion, Lo! from his seat he had fallen, and stretched abroad on the seashore Motionless lay his form, from which the soul had departed. Slowly the priest uplifted the lifeless head, and the ...
... turned, to the land of the bison and beaver. At the helm sat a youth, with countenance thoughtful and careworn. Dark and neglected locks overshadowed his brow, and a sadness Somewhat beyond his years on his face was legibly written ...
... turned to the house, through the gate of the garden Saw he the forms of the priest and the maiden advancing to meet him. Suddenly down from his horse he sprang in amazement, and forward Rushed with extended arms and exclamations of ...
... turned their steeds; and behind a spur of the mountains, Just as the sound went down, they heard a murmur of voices, And in a meadow green and broad, by the bank of a river, Saw the tents of the Christians, the tents of the Jesuit ...
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FROM THE SONG OF HIAWATHA | |
THE COURTSHIP OF MILES STANDISH | |
FROM TALES OF A WAYSIDE INN | |
THE NEW ENGLAND TRAGEDIES | |
FINALE SAINT JOHN | |
A PSALM OF LIFE WHAT THE HEART OF THE YOUNG MAN SAID TO | |
THE SLAVE SINGING AT MIDNIGHT | |