THE DIVINE COMEDY
INFERNO
Of Dante Alighieri, (1265-1321)
TRANSLATED BY HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW (1807-1882)
CONTENTS
The Dark Forest. The Hill of Difficulty. The Panther, the Lion, and the Wolf. Virgil.
The Descent. Dante's Protest and Virgil's Appeal. The Intercession of the Three Ladies Benedight.
The Gate of Hell. The Inefficient or Indifferent. Pope Celestine V. The Shores of Acheron. Charon. The Earthquake and the Swoon.
The First Circle, Limbo: Virtuous Pagans and the Unbaptized. The Four Poets, Homer, Horace, Ovid, and Lucan. The Noble Castle of Philosophy.
The Second Circle: The Wanton. Minos. The Infernal Hurricane. Francesca da Rimini.
The Third Circle: The Gluttonous. Cerberus. The Eternal Rain. Ciacco. Florence.
The Fourth Circle: The Avaricious and the Prodigal. Plutus. Fortune and her Wheel. The Fifth Circle: The Irascible and the Sullen. Styx.
Phlegyas. Philippo Argenti. The Gate of the City of Dis.
The Furies and Medusa. The Angel. The City of Dis. The Sixth Circle: Heresiarchs.
Farinata and Cavalcante de' Cavalcanti. Discourse on the Knowledge of the Damned.
The Broken Rocks. Pope Anastasius. General Description of the Inferno and its Divisions.
The Minotaur. The Seventh Circle: The Violent. The River Phlegethon. The Violent against their Neighbours. The Centaurs. Tyrants.
The Wood of Thorns. The Harpies. The Violent against themselves. Suicides. Pier della Vigna. Lano and Jacopo da Sant' Andrea.
The Sand Waste and the Rain of Fire. The Violent against God. Capaneus. The Statue of Time, and the Four Infernal Rivers.
The Violent against Nature. Brunetto Latini.
Guidoguerra, Aldobrandi, and Rusticucci. Cataract of the River of Blood.
Geryon. The Violent against Art. Usurers. Descent into the Abyss of Malebolge.
The Eighth Circle, Malebolge: The Fraudulent and the Malicious. The First Bolgia: Seducers and Panders. Venedico Caccianimico. Jason. The Second Bolgia: Flatterers. Allessio Interminelli. Thais.
The Third Bolgia: Simoniacs. Pope Nicholas III. Dante's Reproof of corrupt Prelates.
The Fourth Bolgia: Soothsayers. Amphiaraus, Tiresias, Aruns, Manto, Eryphylus, Michael Scott, Guido Bonatti, and Asdente. Virgil reproaches Dante's Pity. Mantua's Foundation.
The Fifth Bolgia: Peculators. The Elder of Santa Zita. Malacoda and other Devils.
Ciampolo, Friar Gomita, and Michael Zanche. The Malabranche quarrel.
Escape from the Malabranche. The Sixth Bolgia: Hypocrites. Catalano and Loderingo. Caiaphas.
The Seventh Bolgia: Thieves. Vanni Fucci. Serpents.
Vanni Fucci's Punishment. Agnello Brunelleschi, Buoso degli Abati, Puccio Sciancato, Cianfa de' Donati, and Guercio Cavalcanti.
The Eighth Bolgia: Evil Counsellors. Ulysses and Diomed. Ulysses' Last Voyage.
Guido da Montefeltro. His deception by Pope Boniface VIII.
The Ninth Bolgia: Schismatics. Mahomet and Ali. Pier da Medicina, Curio, Mosca, and Bertrand de Born.
Geri del Bello. The Tenth Bolgia: Alchemists. Griffolino d' Arezzo and Capocchino.
Other Falsifiers or Forgers. Gianni Schicchi, Myrrha, Adam of Brescia, Potiphar's Wife, and Sinon of Troy.
The Giants, Nimrod, Ephialtes, and Antaeus. Descent to Cocytus.
The Ninth Circle: Traitors. The Frozen Lake of Cocytus. First Division, Caina: Traitors to their Kindred. Camicion de' Pazzi. Second Division, Antenora: Traitors to their Country. Dante questions Bocca degli Abati. Buoso da Duera.
Count Ugolino and the Archbishop Ruggieri. The Death of Count Ugolino's Sons. Third Division of the Ninth Circle, Ptolomaea: Traitors to their Friends. Friar Alberigo, Branco d' Oria.
Fourth Division of the Ninth Circle, the Judecca: Traitors to their Lords and Benefactors. Lucifer, Judas Iscariot, Brutus, and Cassius. The Chasm of Lethe. The Ascent.
THE DIVINE COMEDY OF DANTE ALIGHIERI,(1265-1321)
TRANSLATED BY HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW, (1807-1882)
CONTENTS
CANTICLE III: PARADISO
THE DIVINE COMEDY
PARADISO
Paradiso: Canto I
Paradiso: Canto II
Paradiso: Canto III
Paradiso: Canto IV
Paradiso: Canto V
Paradiso: Canto VI
Paradiso: Canto VII
Paradiso: Canto VIII
Paradiso: Canto IX
Paradiso: Canto X
Paradiso: Canto XI
Paradiso: Canto XII
Paradiso: Canto XIII
Paradiso: Canto XIV
Paradiso: Canto XV
Paradiso: Canto XVI
Paradiso: Canto XVII
Paradiso: Canto XVIII
Paradiso: Canto XIX
Paradiso: Canto XX
Paradiso: Canto XXI
Paradiso: Canto XXII
Paradiso: Canto XXIII
Paradiso: Canto XXIV
Paradiso: Canto XXV
Paradiso: Canto XXVI
Paradiso: Canto XXVII
Paradiso: Canto XXVIII
Paradiso: Canto XXIX
Paradiso: Canto XXX
Paradiso: Canto XXXI
Paradiso: Canto XXXII
Paradiso: Canto XXXIII
APPENDIX
POSTSCRIPT
THE DIVINE COMEDY OF DANTE ALIGHIERI, (1265-1321)
PURGATORIO
TRANSLATED BY HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW,(1807-1882)
CONTENTS
CANTICLE II: PURGATORIO
CREDITS
THE DIVINE COMEDY
PURGATORIO
Purgatorio: Canto I
Purgatorio: Canto II
Purgatorio: Canto III
Purgatorio: Canto IV
Purgatorio: Canto V
Purgatorio: Canto VI
Purgatorio: Canto VII
Purgatorio: Canto VIII
Purgatorio: Canto IX
Purgatorio: Canto X
Purgatorio: Canto XI
Purgatorio: Canto XII
Purgatorio: Canto XIII
Purgatorio: Canto XIV
Purgatorio: Canto XV
Purgatorio: Canto XVI
Purgatorio: Canto XVII
Purgatorio: Canto XVIII
Purgatorio: Canto XIX
Purgatorio: Canto XX
Purgatorio: Canto XXI
Purgatorio: Canto XXII
Purgatorio: Canto XXIII
Purgatorio: Canto XXIV
Purgatorio: Canto XXV
Purgatorio: Canto XXVI
Purgatorio: Canto XXVII
Purgatorio: Canto XXVIII
Purgatorio: Canto XXIX
Purgatorio: Canto XXX
Purgatorio: Canto XXXI
Purgatorio: Canto XXXII
Purgatorio: Canto XXXIII
THE COMPLETE POETICAL WORKS
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Many missing poems
DETAILED CONTENTS (without Hyperlinks)
VOICES OF THE NIGHT.
Prelude
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
L'Envoi
BALLADS AND OTHER POEMS.
The Skeleton in Armor
The Wreck of the Hesperus
The Village Blacksmith
Endymion
It is not Always May
The Rainy Day
God's-Acre
To the River Charles
Blind Bartimeus
The Goblet of Life
Maidenhood
Excelsior
POEMS ON SLAVERY.
To William E. Channing
The Slave's Dream
The Good Part, that shall not be taken away
The Slave in the Dismal Swamp
The Slave singing at Midnight
The Witnesses
The Quadroon Girl
The Warning
THE SPANISH STUDENT.
THE BELFRY OF BRUGES AND OTHER POEMS.
Carillon
The Belfry of Bruges
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
SONGS
The Day Is done
Afternoon in February
To an Old Danish Song-Book
Walter von der Vogelweid
Drinking Song
The Old Clock on the Stairs
The Arrow and the Song
SONNETS
Mezzo Cammin
The Evening Star
Autumn
Dante
Curfew
EVANGELINE: A TALE OF ACADIE.
THE SEASIDE AND THE FIRESIDE.
Dedication
BY THE SEASIDE.
The Building of the Ship
Seaweed
Chrysaor
The Secret of the Sea
Twilight
Sir Humphrey Gilbert
The Lighthouse
The Fire of Drift-Wood
BY THE FIRESIDE.
Resignation
The Builders
Sand of the Desert In an Hour-Glass
The Open Window
King Witlaf's Drinking-Horn
Gaspar Becerra
Pegasus in Pound
Tegner's Drapa
Sonnet on Mrs. Kemble's Reading from Shakespeare
The Singers
Suspiria
Hymn for my Brother's Ordination
THE SONG OF HIAWATHA.
Introduction
I. The Peace-Pipe
II. The Four Winds
III. Hiawatha's Childhood
IV. Hiawatha and Madjekeewis
V. Hiawatha's Fasting
VI. Hiawatha's Friends
VII. Hiawatha's Sailing
VIII. Hiawatha's Fishing
IX. Hiawatha and the Pearl-Feather
X. Hiawatha's Wooing
XI. Hiawatha's Wedding-Feast
XII. The Son of the Evening Star
XIII. Blessing the Cornfields
XIV. Picture-Writing
XV. Hiawatha's Lamentation
XVI. Pau-Puk-Keewis
XVII. The Hunting of Pau-Puk-Keewis
XVIII. The Death of Kwasind
XIX. The Ghosts
XX. The Famine
XXI. The White Man's Foot
XXII. Hiawatha's Departure
[NOTES]
THE COURTSHIP OF MILES STANDISH.
I. Miles Standish
II. Love and Friendship
III. The Lover's Errand
IV. John Alden
V. The Sailing of the May flower
VI. Priscilla
VII. The March of Miles Standish
VIII. The Spinning-Wheel
IX. The Wedding-Day
BIRDS OF PASSAGE.
FLIGHT THE FIRST.
Birds of Passage
Prometheus, or the Poet's Forethought
Epimetheus, or the Poet's Afterthought
The Ladder of St. Augustine
The Phantom Ship
The Warden of the Cinque Ports
Haunted Houses
In the Churchyard at Cambridge
The Emperor's Bird's-Nest
The Two Angels
Daylight and Moonlight
The Jewish Cemetery at Newport
Oliver Basselin
Victor Galbraith
My Lost Youth
The Ropewalk
The Golden Mile-Stone
Catawba Wine
Santa Filomena
The Discoverer of the North Cape
Daybreak
The Fiftieth Birthday of Agassiz
Children
Sandalphon
FLIGHT THE SECOND.
The Children's Hour
Enceladus
The Cumberland
Snow-Flakes
A Day of Sunshine
Something left Undone
Weariness
TALES OF A WAYSIDE INN.
Part First
Prelude
The Wayside Inn
The Landlord's Tale
Paul Revere's Ride
Interlude
The Student's Tale
The Falcon of Ser Federigo
Interlude
The Spanish Jew's Tale
The Legend of Rabbi Ben Levi
Interlude
The Sicilian's Tale
King Robert of Sicily
Interlude
The Musician's Tale
The Saga of King Olaf
I. The Challenge of Thor
II. King Olaf's Return
III. Thora of Rimol
IV. Queen Sigrid the Haughty
V. The Skerry of Shrieks
VI. The Wraith of Odin
VII. Iron-Beard
VIII. Gudrun
IX. Thangbrand the Priest
X. Raud the Strong
XI. Bishop Sigurd at Salten Fiord
XII. King Olaf's Christmas
XIII. The Building of the Long Serpent
XIV. The Crew of the Long Serpent
XV. A Little Bird in the Air
XVI. Queen Thyri and the Angelica Stalks
XVII. King Svend of the Forked Beard
XVIII. King Olaf and Earl Sigvald
XIX. King Olaf's War-Horns
XX. Einar Tamberskelver
XXI. King Olaf's Death-drink
XXII. The Nun of Nidaros
Interlude
The Theologian's Tale.
Torquemada
Interlude
The Poet's Tale
The Birds of Killingworth
Finale
PART SECOND.
Prelude
The Sicilian's Tale
The Bell of Atri
Interlude
The Spanish Jew's Tale
Kambalu
Interlude
The Student's Tale
The Cobbler of Hagenau
Interlude
The Musician's Tale
The Ballad of Carmilhan
Interlude
The Poet's Tale
Lady Wentworth
Interlude
The Theologian's Tale
The Legend Beautiful
Interlude
The Student's Second Tale
The Baron of St. Castine
Finale
PART THIRD.
Prelude
The Spanish Jew's Tale
Azrael
Interlude
The Poet's Tale
Charlemagne
Interlude
The Student's Tale
Emma and Eginhard
Interlude
The Theologian's Tale
Elizabeth
Interlude
The Sicilian's Tale
The Monk of Casa-Maggiore
Interlude
The Spanish Jew's Second Tale
Scanderbeg
Interlude
The Musician's Tale
The Mother's Ghost
Interlude
The Landlord's Tale
The Rhyme of Sir Christopher
Finale
FLOWER-DE-LUCE.
Flower-de-Luce
Palingenesis
The Bridge of Cloud
Hawthorne
Christmas Bells
The Wind over the Chimney
The Bells of Lynn
Killed at the Ford
Giotto's Tower
To-morrow
Divina Commedia
Noel
BIRDS OF PASSAGE
FLIGHT THE THIRD.
Fata Morgana
The Haunted Chamber
The Meeting
Vox Populi
The Castle-Builder
Changed
The Challenge
The Brook and the Wave
Aftermath
THE MASQUE OF PANDORA.
I. The Workshop of Hephaestus
II. Olympus
III. Tower of Prometheus on Mount Caucasus
IV. The Air
V. The House of Epimetheus
VI. In the Garden
VII. The House of Epimetheus
VIII. In the Garden
THE HANGING OF THE CRANE
MORITURI SALUTAMUS
A BOOK OF SONNETS.
Three Friends of Mine
Chaucer
Shakespeare
Milton
Keats
The Galaxy
The Sound of the Sea
A Summer Day by the Sea
The Tides
A Shadow
A Nameless Grave
Sleep
The Old Bridge at Florence
Il Ponte Vecchio di Firenze
Nature
In the Churchyard at Tarrytown
Eliot's Oak
The Descent of the Muses
Venice
The Poets
Parker Cleaveland
The Harvest Moon
To the River Rhone
The Three Silences of Molinos
The Two Rivers
Boston
St. John's, Cambridge
Moods
Woodstock Park
The Four Princesses at Wilna
Holidays
Wapentake
The Broken Oar
The Cross of Snow
BIRDS OF PASSAGE
FLIGHT THE FOURTH.
Charles Sumner
Travels by the Fireside
Cadenabbia
Monte Cassino
Amalfi
The Sermon of St. Francis
Belisarius
Songo River
KERAMOS
BIRDS OF PASSAGE.
FLIGHT THE FIFTH.
The Herons of Elmwood
A Dutch Picture
Castles in Spain
Vittoria Colonna
The Revenge of Rain-in-the-Face
To the River Yvette
The Emperor's Glove
A Ballad or the French Fleet
The Leap of Roushan Beg
Haroun Al Raschid.
King Trisanku
A Wraith in the Mist
The Three Kings
Song: "Stay, Stay at Home, my Heart, and Rest."
The White Czar
Delia
ULTIMA THULE.
Dedication
Poems
Bayard Taylor
The Chamber over the Gate
From my Arm-Chair
Jugurtha
The Iron Pen
Robert Burns
Helen of Tyre
Elegiac
Old St. David's at Radnor
FOLK-SONGS.
The Sifting of Peter
Maiden and Weathercock
The Windmill
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
SONNETS
My Cathedral
The Burial of the Poet
Night
L'ENVOI.
The Poet and his Songs
IN THE HARBOR.
Becalmed
The Poet's Calendar
Autumn Within
The Four Lakes of Madison
Victor and Vanquished
Moonlight
The Children's Crusade
Sundown
Chimes
Four by the Clock
Auf Wiedersehen
Elegiac Verse
The City and the Sea
Memories
Hermes Trismegistus
To the Avon
President Garfield
My Books
Mad River
Possibilities
Decoration Day
A Fragment
Loss and Gain
Inscription on the Shanklin Fountain
The Bells of San Blas
FRAGMENTS.
"Neglected record of a mind neglected"
"O Faithful, indefatigable tides"
"Soft through the silent air"
"So from the bosom of darkness"
CHRISTUS: A MYSTERY.
Introitus
PART I. THE DIVINE TRAGEDY.
The First Passover
I. Vox Clamantis
II. Mount Quarantania
III. The Marriage in Cana
IV. In the Cornfields
V. Nazareth
VI. The Sea of Galilee
VII. The Demoniac of Gadara
IX. The Tower of Magdala
X. The House of Simon the Pharisee
The Second Passover
I. Before the Gates of Machaerus
II. Herod's Banquet-Hall
III. Under the Wall of Machaerus
IV. Nicodemus at Night
V. Blind Bartimeus
VI. Jacob's Well
VII. The Coasts of Caesarea Philippi
VIII. The Young Ruler
IX. At Bethany
X. Born Blind
XI. Simon Magus and Helen of Tyre
The Third Passover
I. The Entry into Jerusalem
II. Solomon's Porch
III. Lord, is it I?
IV. The Garden of Gethsemane
V. The Palace of Caiaphas
VI. Pontius Pilate
VII. Barabbas in Prison
VIII. Ecce Homo
IX. Aceldama
X. The Three Crosses
XI. The Two Maries
XII. The Sea of Galilee
Epilogue. Symbolum Apostolorum
First Interlude. The Abbot Joachim
PART II. THE GOLDEN LEGEND.
Prologue: The Spire of Strasburg Cathedral
I. The Castle of Vautsberg on the Rhine
Courtyard of the Castle
II. A Farm in the Odenwald
A Room in the Farmhouse
Elsie's Chamber
The Chamber of Gottlieb and Ursula
A Village Church
A Room in the Farmhouse
In the Garden
III. A Street in Strasburg
Square in Front of the Cathedral
In the Cathedral
The Nativity: A Miracle-Play
Introitus
I. Heaven
II. Mary at the Well
III. The Angels of the Seven Planets
IV. The Wise Men of the East
V. The Flight into Egypt
VI. The Slaughter of the Innocents
VII. Jesus at Play with his Schoolmates
VIII. The Village School
IX. Crowned with Flowers
Epilogue
IV. The Road to Hirschau
The Convent of Hirschau in the Black Forest
The Scriptorium
The Cloisters
The Chapel
The Refectory
The Neighboring Nunnery
V. A Covered Bridge at Lucerne
The Devil's Bridge
The St. Gothard Pass
At the Foot of the Alps
The Inn at Genoa
At Sea
VI. The School of Salerno
The Farm-house in the Odenwald
The Castle of Vautsberg on the Rhine
Epilogue. The Two Recording Angels Ascending
Second Interlude. Martin Luther
PART III. THE NEW ENGLAND TRAGEDIES.
John Endicott
Giles Corey of the Salem Farms
Finale. St. John
JUDAS MACCABAEUS
Act I. The Citadel of Antiochus at Jerusalem
Act II. The Dungeons in the Citadel
Act III. The Battle-field of Beth-Horon
Act IV. The Outer Courts of the Temple at Jerusalem
Act V. The Mountains of Ecbatana
MICHAEL ANGELO
Dedication
PART FIRST
I. Prologue at Ischia
Monologue : The Last Judgment
II. San Silvestro
III. Cardinal Ippolito
IV. Borgo delle Vergine at Naples
V. Vittoria Colonna
PART SECOND.
I. Monologue
II. Viterbo
III. Michael Angelo and Benvenuto Cellini
IV. Fra Sebastiano del Piombo
V. Palazzo Belvedere
VI. Palazzo Cesarini
PART THIRD.
I. Monologue
II. Vigna di Papa Giulio
III. Bindo Altoviti
IV. In the Coliseum
V. Macello de' Corvi
VI. Michael Angelo's Studio
VII. The Oaks of Monte Luca
VIII. The Dead Christ
TRANSLATIONS.
Prelude
From the Spanish
Coplas de Manrique
Sonnets.
I. The Good Shepherd
II. To-morrow
III. The Native Land
IV. The Image of God
V. The Brook
Ancient Spanish Ballads.
I. Rio Verde, Rio Verde
II. Don Nuno, Count of Lara
III. The peasant leaves his plough afield
Vida de San Millan
San Miguel, the Convent
Song: "She is a maid of artless grace"
Santa Teresa's Book-Mark
From the Cancioneros
I. Eyes so tristful, eyes so tristful
II. Some day, some day
III. Come, O death, so silent flying
IV. Glove of black in white hand bare
From the Swedish and Danish.
Passages from Frithiof's Saga
I. Frithiof's Homestead
II. A Sledge-Ride on the Ice
III. Frithiof's Temptation
IV. Frithiof's Farewell
The Children of the Lord's Supper
King Christian
The Elected Knight
Childhood
From the German.
The Happiest Land
The Wave
The Dead
The Bird and the Ship
Whither?
Beware!
Song of the Bell
The Castle by the Sea
The Black Knight
Song of the Silent Land
The Luck of Edenhall
The Two Locks of Hair
The Hemlock Tree
Annie of Tharaw
The Statue over the Cathedral Door
The Legend of the Crossbill
The Sea hath its Pearls
Poetic Aphorisms
Silent Love
Blessed are the Dead
Wanderer's Night-Songs
Remorse
Forsaken
Allah
From the Anglo-Saxon.
The Grave
Beowulf's Expedition to Heort
The Soul's Complaint against the Body
From the French
Song: Hark! Hark!
Song: "And whither goest thou, gentle sigh"
The Return of Spring
Spring
The Child Asleep
Death of Archbishop Turpin
The Blind Girl of Castel-Cuille
A Christmas Carol
Consolation
To Cardinal Richelieu
The Angel and the Child
On the Terrace of the Aigalades
To my Brooklet
Barreges
Will ever the dear days come back again?
At La Chaudeau
A Quiet Life
The Wine of Jurancon
Friar Lubin
Rondel
My Secret
From the Italian.
The Celestial Pilot
The Terrestrial Paradise
Beatrice
To Italy
Seven Sonnets and a Canzone
I. The Artist
II. Fire.
III. Youth and Age
IV. Old Age
V. To Vittoria Colonna
VI. To Vittoria Colonna
VII. Dante
VIII. Canzone
The Nature of Love
From the Portuguese.
Song: If thou art sleeping, maiden
From Eastern sources.
The Fugitive
The Siege of Kazan
The Boy and the Brook
To the Stork
From the Latin.
Virgils First Eclogue
Ovid in Exile
LINKED CONTENTS TO 450 MAJOR HEADINGS
VOICES OF THE NIGHT
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
AUTUMN
WOODS IN WINTER.
HYMN OF THE MORAVIAN NUNS OF BETHLEHEM
SUNRISE ON THE HILLS
THE SPIRIT OF POETRY
BURIAL OF THE MINNISINK
L' ENVOI
THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS
THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH
ENDYMION
IT IS NOT ALWAYS MAY
THE RAINY DAY
GOD'S-ACRE.
TO THE RIVER CHARLES.
BLIND BARTIMEUS
THE GOBLET OF LIFE
MAIDENHOOD
EXCELSIOR
TO WILLIAM E. CHANNING
THE SLAVE'S DREAM
THE GOOD PART
THE SLAVE IN THE DISMAL SWAMP
THE SLAVE SINGING AT MIDNIGHT
THE WITNESSES
THE QUADROON GIRL
THE WARNING
ACT II.
SCENE III. — The Prado. A long avenue of trees leading to the
SCENE IV. — PRECIOSA'S chamber. She is sitting, with a book in
SCENE V. — The COUNT OF LARA'S rooms. Enter the COUNT.
SCENE VIII. — The Theatre. The orchestra plays the cachucha.
SCENE XI. — PRECIOSA'S bedchamber. Midnight. She is sleeping in
ACT III.
SCENE VI. — A pass in the Guadarrama mountains. Early morning.
THE BELFRY OF BRUGES
A GLEAM OF SUNSHINE
THE ARSENAL AT SPRINGFIELD
NUREMBERG
RAIN IN SUMMER
TO A CHILD
THE OCCULTATION OF ORION
THE BRIDGE
TO THE DRIVING CLOUD
SONGS
AFTERNOON IN FEBRUARY
TO AN OLD DANISH SONG-BOOK
WALTER VON DER VOGELWEID
DRINKING SONG
THE OLD CLOCK ON THE STAIRS
THE ARROW AND THE SONG
SONNETS
THE EVENING STAR
AUTUMN
DANTE
CURFEW
PART THE FIRST
II
III
PART THE SECOND
II
IV
V
BY THE SEASIDE
SEAWEED
CHRYSAOR
THE SECRET OF THE SEA
TWILIGHT
SIR HUMPHREY GILBERT
THE LIGHTHOUSE
THE FIRE OF DRIFT-WOOD
BY THE FIRESIDE
THE BUILDERS
SAND OF THE DESERT IN AN HOUR-GLASS
THE OPEN WINDOW
KING WITLAF'S DRINKING-HORN
GASPAR BECERRA
TEGNER'S DRAPA
SONNET
THE SINGERS
SUSPIRIA
HYMN
INTRODUCTION
I
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
X
XII
XIII
XIV
XV
XVI
XVII
XVIII
IX
XX
XXI
XXII
NOTES
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
PROMETHEUS
EPIMETHEUS
THE LADDER OF ST. AUGUSTINE
THE PHANTOM SHIP
THE WARDEN OF THE CINQUE PORTS
HAUNTED HOUSES
IN THE CHURCHYARD AT CAMBRIDGE
THE EMPEROR'S BIRD'S-NEST
THE TWO ANGELS
DAYLIGHT AND MOONLIGHT
THE JEWISH CEMETERY AT NEWPORT
OLIVER BASSELIN
VICTOR GALBRAITH
MY LOST YOUTH
THE ROPEWALK
THE GOLDEN MILE-STONE
CATAWBA WINE
SANTA FILOMENA
THE DISCOVERER OF THE NORTH CAPE
DAYBREAK
THE FIFTIETH BIRTHDAY OF AGASSIZ
CHILDREN
SANDALPHON
FLIGHT THE SECOND
ENCELADUS
THE CUMBERLAND
SNOW-FLAKES
A DAY OF SUNSHINE
SOMETHING LEFT UNDONE
WEARINESS
PART FIRST
THE LANDLORD'S TALE.
INTERLUDE.
THE STUDENT'S TALE
INTERLUDE
THE SPANISH JEW'S TALE
INTERLUDE
THE SICILIAN'S TALE
INTERLUDE
THE MUSICIAN'S TALE
II
III
IV
V
VI
VII
VIII
IX
XI
XII
XIII
XIV
XV
XVI
XVII
XVIII
XIX
XX
XXI
XXII
INTERLUDE
THE THEOLOGIAN'S TALE
INTERLUDE
THE POET'S TALE
FINALE
PART SECOND
THE SICILIAN'S TALE
INTERLUDE
THE SPANISH JEW'S TALE
INTERLUDE
THE STUDENT'S TALE
INTERLUDE
THE MUSICIAN'S TALE
II
III
IV
INTERLUDE
THE POET'S TALE
INTERLUDE.
THE THEOLOGIAN'S TALE
INTERLUDE.
THE STUDENT'S SECOND TALE
FINALE
PART THIRD
THE SPANISH JEW'S TALE
INTERLUDE.
THE POET'S TALE
INTERLUDE
THE STUDENT'S TALE
INTERLUDE
THE THEOLOGIAN'S TALE
III
IV
INTERLUDE
THE SICILIAN'S TALE
INTERLUDE
THE SPANISH JEW'S SECOND TALE
INTERLUDE
THE MUSICIAN'S TALE
INTERLUDE
THE LANDLORD'S TALE
FINALE
FLOWER-DE-LUCE
PALINGENESIS
THE BRIDGE OF CLOUD
HAWTHORNE
CHRISTMAS BELLS
THE WIND OVER THE CHIMNEY
THE BELLS OF LYNN
KILLED AT THE FORD.
GIOTTO'S TOWER
TO-MORROW
DIVINA COMMEDIA
NOEL.
THE HAUNTED CHAMBER
THE MEETING
VOX POPULI
THE CASTLE-BUILDER
CHANGED
THE CHALLENGE
THE BROOK AND THE WAVE
AFTERMATH
THE MASQUE OF PANDORA
THE HANGING OF THE CRANE
MORITURI SALUTAMUS
A BOOK OF SONNETS
CHAUCER
SHAKESPEARE
MILTON
KEATS
THE GALAXY
THE SOUND OF THE SEA
A SUMMER DAY BY THE SEA
THE TIDES
A SHADOW
A NAMELESS GRAVE
SLEEP
THE OLD BRIDGE AT FLORENCE
IL PONTE VECCHIO DI FIRENZE
NATURE
IN THE CHURCHYARD AT TARRYTOWN
ELIOT'S OAK
THE DESCENT OF THE MUSES
VENICE
THE POETS
PARKER CLEAVELAND
THE HARVEST MOON
TO THE RIVER RHONE
THE THREE SILENCES OF MOLINOS
THE TWO RIVERS
BOSTON
ST. JOHN'S, CAMBRIDGE
MOODS
WOODSTOCK PARK
THE FOUR PRINCESSES AT WILNA
HOLIDAYS
WAPENTAKE
THE CROSS OF SNOW
TRAVELS BY THE FIRESIDE
CADENABBIA
MONTE CASSINO
AMALFI
THE SERMON OF ST. FRANCIS
BELISARIUS
SONGO RIVER
A DUTCH PICTURE
CASTLES IN SPAIN
VITTORIA COLONNA.
THE REVENGE OF RAIN-IN-THE-FACE
TO THE RIVER YVETTE
THE EMPEROR'S GLOVE
A BALLAD OF THE FRENCH FLEET
THE LEAP OF ROUSHAN BEG
HAROUN AL RASCHID
KING TRISANKU
A WRAITH IN THE MIST
THE THREE KINGS
SONG
THE WHITE CZAR
DELIA
ULTIMA THULE
POEMS
THE CHAMBER OVER THE GATE
FROM MY ARM-CHAIR
JUGURTHA
THE IRON PEN
ROBERT BURNS
HELEN OF TYRE
ELEGIAC
OLD ST. DAVID'S AT RADNOR
FOLK SONGS
MAIDEN AND WEATHERCOCK
THE WINDMILL
THE TIDE RISES, THE TIDE FALLS
SONNETS
THE BURIAL OF THE POET
NIGHT
L'ENVOI
THE POET'S CALENDAR
AUTUMN WITHIN
THE FOUR LAKES OF MADISON
VICTOR AND VANQUISHED
MOONLIGHT
THE CHILDREN'S CRUSADE
SUNDOWN
CHIMES
FOUR BY THE CLOCK.
AUF WIEDERSEHEN.
ELEGIAC VERSE
THE CITY AND THE SEA
MEMORIES
HERMES TRISMEGISTUS
TO THE AVON
PRESIDENT GARFIELD
MY BOOKS
MAD RIVER
POSSIBILITIES
DECORATION DAY
A FRAGMENT
INSCRIPTION ON THE SHANKLIN FOUNTAIN
THE BELLS OF SAN BLAS
PART ONE
III
THE SECOND PASSOVER.
THE THIRD PASSOVER
IV
XII
EPILOGUE
FIRST INTERLUDE
PART TWO
PROLOGUE
III
THE NATIVITY
EPILOGUE
SECOND INTERLUDE
PART THREE
PROLOGUE.
ACT II.
ACT III.
SCENE II. — A street. Enter JOHN ENDICOTT and UPSALL.
GILES COREY OF THE SALEM FARMS
PROLOGUE.
FINALE
********
SCENE II. — ANTIOCHUS; JASON; THE SAMARITAN AMBASSADORS.
ACT III.
SCENE II — JUDAS MACCABAEUS; JEWISH FUGITIVES.
SCENE IV. — JUDAS MACCABAEUS; CAPTAINS AND SOLDIERS.
ACT IV.
ACT V.
MICHAEL ANGELO
DEDICATION.
PART FIRST.
PROLOGUE AT ISCHIA
MONOLOGUE: THE LAST JUDGMENT
IV.
V.
PART SECOND
III
V
VI
PART THIRD
II
III
VII
VIII
TRANSLATIONS
SONNETS
ANCIENT SPANISH BALLADS.
VIDA DE SAN MILLAN
SAN MIGUEL, THE CONVENT
FROM THE CANCIONEROS
FROM THE SWEDISH AND DANISH
THE ELECTED KNIGHT
CHILDHOOD
FROM THE GERMAN
THE WAVE
THE DEAD
THE BIRD AND THE SHIP
WHITHER?
BEWARE!
SONG OF THE BELL
THE CASTLE BY THE SEA
THE BLACK KNIGHT
SONG OF THE SILENT LAND
THE LUCK OF EDENHALL
THE TWO LOCKS OF HAIR
THE HEMLOCK TREE.
ANNIE OF THARAW
THE STATUE OVER THE CATHEDRAL DOOR
THE LEGEND OF THE CROSSBILL
THE SEA HATH ITS PEARLS
POETIC APHORISMS
BLESSED ARE THE DEAD
WANDERER'S NIGHT-SONGS
REMORSE
FORSAKEN.
ALLAH
BEOWULF'S EXPEDITION TO HEORT.
THE SOUL'S COMPLAINT AGAINST THE BODY
FROM THE FRENCH
SONG
SPRING
THE CHILD ASLEEP
DEATH OF ARCHBISHOP TURPIN
THE BLIND GIRL OF CASTEL CUILLE
A CHRISTMAS CAROL
TO CARDINAL RICHELIEU
BARREGES
A QUIET LIFE.
THE WINE OF JURANCON
FRIAR LUBIN
RONDEL
MY SECRET
FROM THE ITALIAN
BEATRICE.
TO ITALY
SEVEN SONNETS AND A CANZONE
VII
VIII
THE NATURE OF LOVE
FROM THE PORTUGUESE
FROM EASTERN SOURCES
THE SIEGE OF KAZAN
THE BOY AND THE BROOK
TO THE STORK
FROM THE LATIN
OVID IN EXILE
TRISTIA, Book III., Elegy XII.
THE LAND OF EVANGELINE
The authentic story of her country and her people
By John F. Herbin
Illustrated
With
EVANGELINE
By H. W. Longfellow
ILLUSTRATIONS
Evangeline’s Well Frontispiece
Map of The Evangeline Country viii
Facing Page
At Annapolis Royal
(Old Port Royal) 8
Bear River 16
The Blue Boat 24
Blomidon, Low Tide 40
Gaspereau River and Blomidon
(Scene of the Deportation) 40
The Stone Cross
(Acadian Burying Ground) 41
Evangeline
(From the Painting) 56
Scotch Covenanter Church
(Grand-Pré) 57
Village Smithy
(Grand-Pré) 57
The Evangeline Statue 72
Original Acadian Willow-Trees 72
HYPERION
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
1882
CONTENTS.
BOOK I.
Epigraph
CHAPTER I THE HERO.
CHAPTER II THE CHRIST OF ANDERNACH.
CHAPTER III HOMUNCULUS.
CHAPTER IV THE LANDLADY'S DAUGHTER.
CHAPTER V JEAN PAUL, THE ONLY-ONE.
CHAPTER VI HEIDELBERG AND THE BARON.
CHAPTER VII LIVES OF SCHOLARS.
CHAPTER VIII LITERARY FAME.
BOOK II.
Epigraph
CHAPTER I SPRING.
CHAPTER II A COLLOQUY.
CHAPTER III OWL-TOWERS.
CHAPTER IV A BEER-SCANDAL.
CHAPTER V THE WHITE LADY'S SLIPPER AND THE PASSION-FLOWER.
CHAPTER VI GLIMPSES INTO CLOUD-LAND.
CHAPTER VII MILL-WHEELS AND OTHER WHEELS.
CHAPTER VIII OLD HUMBUG.
CHAPTER IX THE DAYLIGHT OF THE DWARFS, AND THE FALLING STAR.
CHAPTER X THE PARTING.
BOOK III.
Epigraph
CHAPTER I SUMMER-TIME.
CHAPTER II FOOT-TRAVELLING.
CHAPTER III INTERLACHEN.
CHAPTER IV THE EVENING AND THE MORNING STAR.
CHAPTER V A RAINY DAY.
CHAPTER VI AFTER DINNER, AND AFTER THE MANNER OF THE BEST CRITICS.
CHAPTER VII TAKE CARE!
CHAPTER VIII THE FOUNTAIN OF OBLIVION.
CHAPTER IX A TALK ON THE STAIRS.
BOOK IV.
Epigraph
CHAPTER I A MISERERE.
CHAPTER II CURFEW BELLS.
CHAPTER III SHADOWS ON THE WALL.
CHAPTER IV MUSICAL SUFFERINGS OF JOHN KREISLER.
CHAPTER V SAINT GILGEN.
CHAPTER VI SAINT WOLFGANG.
CHAPTER VII THE STORY OF BROTHER BERNARDUS.
CHAPTER VIII FOOT-PRINTS OF ANGELS.
CHAPTER IX THE LAST PANG.
THE CHILDREN'S OWN LONGFELLOW
By Henry W. Longfellow
CONTENTS
The Wreck of the Hesperus
The Village Blacksmith
Evangeline
Part the First
The Song of Hiawatha:
Hiawatha's Sailing
Hiawatha's Fishing
The Building of the Ship
The Castle-Builder
Paul Revere's Ride
The Building of the Long Serpent
THE CHILDREN'S LONGFELLOW
Told In Prose By Doris Hayman
ILLUSTRATED
CONTENTS
PAGE
Introduction 1
The Building of the Ship 3
Hiawatha 12
King Robert of Sicily 26
The Village Blacksmith 37
The Golden Legend 42
The Courtship of Miles Standish 56
Lady Wentworth 67
Elizabeth 73
The Monk and the Ass 82
Evangeline 93
The Falcon of Ser Federigo 111
TALES OF A WAYSIDE INN
BY HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW
CONTENTS
TALES OF A WAYSIDE INN.
PAGE
Prelude.
The Wayside Inn 1
The Landlord's Tale.
Paul Revere's Ride 18
Interlude 26
The Student's Tale.
The Falcon of Ser Federigo 30
Interlude 46
The Spanish Jew's Tale.
The Legend of Rabbi Ben Levi 49
Interlude 53
The Sicilian's Tale.
King Robert of Sicily 55
Interlude 69
The Musician's Tale.
The Saga of King Olaf 71
i. The Challenge of Thor 71
ii. King Olaf's Return 74
[iv]iii. Thora of Rimol 79
iv. Queen Sigrid the Haughty 83
v. The Skerry of Shrieks 88
vi. The Wraith of Odin 94
vii. Iron-Beard 98
viii. Gudrun 103
ix. Thangbrand the Priest 106
x. Raud the Strong 111
xi. Bishop Sigurd at Salten Fiord 114
xii. King Olaf's Christmas 120
xiii. The Building of the Long Serpent 125
xiv. The Crew of the Long Serpent 130
xv. A Little Bird in the Air 134
xvi. Queen Thyri and the Angelica Stalks 137
xvii. King Svend of the Forked Beard 144
xviii. King Olaf and Earl Sigvald 149
xix. King Olaf's War-Horns 152
xx. Einar Tamberskelver 156
xxi. King Olaf's Death-drink 160
xxii. The Nun of Nidaros 165
Interlude 169
The Theologian's Tale.
Torquemada 173
[v]Interlude 187
The Poet's Tale.
The Birds or Killingworth 189
Finale 205
BIRDS OF PASSAGE.
FLIGHT THE SECOND.
The Children's Hour 209
Enceladus 212
The Cumberland 215
Snow-flakes 218
A Day of Sunshine 220
Something left Undone 222
Weariness 224
POEMS ON SLAVERY
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
CONTENTS
page
To William E. Channing 9
The Slave's Dream 11
The Good Part 15
The Slave in the Dismal Swamp 18
The Slave singing at Midnight 21
The Witnesses 23
The Quadroon Girl 26
The Warning 30
COURTSHIP OF MILES STANDISH
Minnehaha Edition
By Henry W. Longfellow
CONTENTS
I.,
II.,
III.,
IV.,
V.,
VI.,
VII.,
VIII.,
IX.
Prometheus.
The Ladder of St. Augustine.
The Phantom Ship.
The Warden of the Cinque Ports.
Haunted Houses.
In the Churchyard at Cambridge.
The Emperor's Bird's-nest.
The Two Angels.
Daylight and Moonlight.
The Jewish Cemetery at Newport.
Oliver Basselin.
Victor Galbraith.
My Lost Youth.
The Ropewalk.
The Golden Mile-stone.
Catawba Wine.
Santa Filomena.
Daybreak.