The complete poetical works of Longfellow

Biographical sketch

Voices of the night

Prelude

Hymn to the night

Psalm of life

Reaper and the flowers

Light of stars

Footsteps of angels

Flowers

Beleaguered city

Midnight mass for the dying year

Earlier Poems

April day

Autumn

Woods in winter

Hymn of the Moravian nuns of Bethlehem

Sunrise on the hills

Spirit of poetry

Burial of the minnisink

L'Envoi

Ballads And Other Poems

Skeleton in armor

Wreck of the Hesperus

Village blacksmith

Endymion

It is not always May

Rainy day

God's-acre

To the river Charles

Blind bartimeus

Goblet of life

Maidenhood

Excelsior

Poems On Slavery

To William E Channing

Slave's dream

Good part, that shall not be taken away

Slave in the dismal swamp

Slave singing at midnight

Witnesses

Quadroon girl

Warning

Spanish Student

Belfry Of Bruges And Other Poems

Introductory note

Carillon

Belfry of Bruges

Gleam of sunshine

Arsenal at Springfield

Nuremberg

Norman Baron

Rain in summer

To a child

Occultation of Orion

Bridge

To the driving cloud songs

Day is done

Afternoon in February

To an old Danish song-book

Walter Von Der Vogelweid

Drinking song

Old clock on the stairs

Arrow and the song

Sonnets

Mezzo Cammin

Evening star

Autumn

Dante

Curfew

Evangeline: A Tale Of Acadie

Introductory note

Evangeline

Seaside And The Fireside

Introductory note

Dedication

By the Seaside

Building of the ship

Seaweed

Chrysaor

Secret of the sea

Twilight

Sir Humphrey Gilbert

Lighthouse

Fire of drift-wood

By the fireside

Resignation

Builders

Sand of the desert in an hour-glass

Open window

King Witlaf's drinking-horn

Gaspar Becerra

Pegasus in pound

Tegner's drapa

Sonnet, on Mrs Kemble's readings from Shakespeare

Singers

Suspiria

Hymn for my brother's ordination

Song Of Hiawatha

Introductory note

Introduction

1: Peace-pipe

2: Four winds

3: Hiawatha's childhood

4: Hiawatha and Mudjekeewis

5: Hiawatha's fasting

6: Hiawatha's friends

7: Hiawatha's sailing

8: Hiawatha's fishing

9: Hiawatha and the pearl-feather

10: Hiawatha's wooing

11: Hiawatha's wedding-feast

12: Son of the evening star

13: Blessing the cornfields

14: Picture-writing

15: Hiawatha's lamentation

16: Pau-puk-keewis

17: Hunting of Pau-puk-keewis

18: Death of Kwasind

19: Ghosts

20: Famine

21: White man's foot

22: Hiawatha's departure

Courtship Of Miles Standish

Introductory note

1: Mile Standish

2: Love and friendship

3: Lover's errand

4: John Alden

5: Sailing of the Mayflower

Priscilla

7: March of Miles Standish

8: Spinning-wheel

9: Wedding-day

Birds Of Passage

Flight the first

Birds of passage

Prometheus, or the poet's forethought Epimetheus, or the poet's after-thought

Ladder of St Augustine

Phantom ship

Warden of the cinque ports

Haunted houses

In the churchyard at Cambridge

Emperor's bird's-nest

Two angels

Daylight and moonlight

Jewish cemetery at Newport

Oliver Basselin

Victor Galbraith

My lost youth

Ropewalk

Golden mile-stone

Catawba wine

Santa filomena

Discoverer of the north cape

Daybreak

Fiftieth birthday of Agassiz

Children

Sandalphon

Flight the second

Children's hour

Enceladus

Cumberland

Snow-flakes

Day of sunshine

Something left undone

Weariness

Tales Of A Wayside Inn

Introductory note

Part first

Prelude

Landlord's tale: Paul Revere's ride

Interlude

Students' tale: the falcon of ser federigo

Interlude

Spanish Jew's tale: the legend of Rabbi Ben Levi

Interlude

Sicilian's tale: King Robert of Sicily

Interlude

Musician's tale: the saga of King Olaf

1: Challenge of Thor

2: King Olaf's return

3: Thora of Rimol

4: Queen Sigrid the haughty

5: Skerry of shrieks

6: Wraith of Odin

7: Iron-beard

8: Gudrun

9: Thangbrand the priest

10: Raud the strong

11: Bishop Sigurd of Salten Fiord

12: King Olaf's Christmas

13: Building of the long serpent

14: Crew of the long serpent

15: Little bird in the air

16: Queen Thyri and the Angelica stalks

17: King Svend of the forked beard

18: King Olaf and Earl Sigvald

19: King Olaf's war-horns

20: Einar Tamberskelver

21: King Olaf's death-drink

22: Nun of Nidarog

Interlude

Theologian's tale: Torquemda

Interlude

Poet's tale: the birds of Killingworth

Finale

Part Second

Prelude

Sicilian's tale: the bell of Atri

Interlude

Spanish Jew's tale: Kambalu

Interlude

Student's tale: the cobbler of Hagenau

Interlude

Musician's tale: the ballad of Carmilhan

Interlude

Poet's tale: Lady Wentworth

Interlude

Theologian's tale: the legend beautiful

Interlude

Student's second tale: the baron of St Castine

Finale

Part third

Prelude

Spanish Jew's tale: Azrael

Interlude

Poet's tale: Charlemagne

Interlude

Student's tale: Emma and Eginhard

Interlude

Theologian's tale: Elizabeth

Interlude

Sicilian's tale: the monk of Casal-Maggiore

Interlude

Spanish Jew's second tale: Scanderberg

Interlude

Musician's tale: the mother's ghost

Interlude

Landlord's tale: The Rhyme of Sir Christopher

Finale

Flower-De-Luce

Flower-de-luce

Palingenesis

Bridge of cloud

Hawthorne

Christmas Bells

Wind over the chimney

Bells of Lynn

Killed at the ford

Giotto's tower

To-Morrow

Divina Commedia

Noel

Birds Of Passage

Flight the third

Fata morgana

Haunted chamber

Meeting

Vox Populi

Castle-builder

Changed

Challenge

Brook and the wave

Aftermath

Masque Of Pandora

Masque of Pandora

1: Workshop of Hephestus

2: Olympus

3: Tower of Prometheus on Mount Caucasus

4: Air

5: House of Epimetheus

6: In the garden

7: House of Epimetheus

8: In the garden.

Hanging Of The Crane

Morituri Salutamus

Book Of Sonnets

Three friends of mine

Chaucer

Shakespeare

Milton

Keats

Galaxy

Sound of the sea

Summer day by the sea

Tides

Shadow

Nameless grave

Sleep

Old bridge at Florence

It Ponte Vecchio Di Firenze nature

In the churchyard at Tarrytown

Eliot's oak

Descent of the muses

Venice

Poets

Parker Cleaveland

Harvest moon

To the river Rhone

Three silences of Molinos

Two rivers

Boston

St John's Cambridge

Moods

Woodstock park

Four princesses at Wilna

Holidays

Wapentake

Broken Oar

Cross of snow

Birds Of Passage

Flight the fourth

Charles Sumner

Travels by the fireside

Cadenabbia

Monte Cassino

Amalfi

Sermon of St Francis

Belisarius

Songo river

Keramos

Birds Of Passage

Flight the fifth

Herons of Elmwood

Dutch picture

Castles in Spain

Vittoria Colonna

Revenge of rain-in-the-face

To The river Yvette

Emperor's glove

Ballad of the French flee

Leap of Roushan Beg

Haroun Al Raschid

King Trisanku

Wraith in the mist

Three Kings

Song: Stay, stay at home my heart, and rest

White Czar

Delia

Ultima Thule dedication

Poems

Bayard Taylor

Chamber over the gate

From my arm-chair

Jugurtha

Iron pen

Robert Burns

Helen of Tyre

Elegiac

Old St David's at Radnor

Folk-songs

Sifting of Peter

Maiden and Weathercock

Windmill

Tide rises, the tide falls

Sonnets

My cathedral

Burial of the poet

Night

L'Envoi

Poet and his songs

In The Harbor

Becalmed

Poet's calendar

Autumn within

Four lakes of Madison

Victor and Vanquished

Moonlight

Children's crusade

Sundown

Chimes

Four by the clock

Auf Wiedersehen

Elegiac verse

City and the sea

Memories

Hermes Trismegistus

To the Avon

President Garfield

My books

Mad river

Possibilities

Decoration Day

Fragment

Loss and gain

Inscription on the Shanklin Fountain

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

Introductory note

Introitus

Part 1: Divine Tragedy

First Passover

1: Vox Clamantis

2: Mount Quarantania

3: Marriage in Cana

4: In the cornfields

5: Nazareth

6: Sea of Galilee

7: Demoniac of Gadara

8: Talitha chumi

9: Tower of Magdala

10: House of Simon the Pharisee

Second Passover

1: Before the gates of Macherus

2: Herod's banquet-hall

3: Under the walls of Macherus

4: Nicodemus at night

5: Blind Bartimeus

6: Jacob's well

7: Coasts of Caesarea Philippi

8: Young ruler

9: At Bethany

10: Born blind

11: Simon magus and Helen of Tyre

Third Passover

1: Entry into Jerusalem

2: Solomon's porch

3: Lord is it I?

4: Garden of Gethsemane

5: Palace of Caiphas

6: Pontuis pilate

7: Barabbas in prison

8: Ecce homo

9: Aceldama

10: Three crosses

11: Two maries

12: Sea of Galilee

Epilogue

Symbolum Apostolorum

First Interlude

Abbot Joachim

Part 2: Golden Legend

Prologue

Spire of Strasburg Cathedral

1: Castle of Vautsberg on the Rhine

Court-yard of the castle

2: Farm in the Odenwald

Room in the farm-house

Elsie's chamber

Chamber of Gottlieb and Ursula

Village church

Room in the farm-house

In the garden

3: Street in Strasburg

Square in front of the cathedral

In the cathedral

Nativity: a miracle-play

Introitus

1: Heaven

2: Mary at the well

3: Angels of the seven planets

4: Wise men of the East

5: Flight into Egypt

6: Slaughter of the innocents

7: Jesus at play with his schoolmates

8: Village school

9: Crowned with flowers

Epilogue

4: Road To Hirschau

Convent Of Hirschau In The Black Forest

Scriptoruim

Cloisters

Chapel

Refectory

Neighboring nunnery

5: Covered Bridge At Lucerne

Devil's bridge

St Gothard pass

At the foot of the alps

Inn at Genoa

At sea

6: School of Salerno

Farm-house in the Odenwald

Castle of Vautsberg on the Rhine

Epilogue

Two recording angels ascending

Second interlude

Martin Luther

Part 3: New England Tragedies / John Endicott

Prologue

Act 1

Act 2

Act 3

Act 4

Act 5

Giles Corey of the Salem farms

Prologue

Act 1

Act 2

Act 3

Act 4

Act 5

Finale

St John

Judas Maccabeus

Act 1: Citadel of Antiochus at Jerusalem

Act 2: Dungeons in the citadel

Act 3: Battle-field of Bethhoron

Act 4: Outer courts of the temple at Jerusalem

Act 5: Mountains of Ecbatana

Michael Angelo: a fragment dedication

Part First

1: Prologue at Ischia monologue: the last judgment

2: San Silvestro

3: Cardinal Ippolito

4: Borgo Delle Vergine at Naples

5: Vittoria Colonna

Part Second

1: Monologue

2: Viterbo

3: Michael Angelo and Benvenuto Cellini

4: Fra Sebastiano Del Piombo

5: Palazzo Belvedere

6: Palazzo Cesarini

Part Third

1: Monologue

2: Vigna Di Papa Giulio

3: Bindo Altoviti

4: In the coliseum

5: Machello De' Corvi

6: Michael Angelo's studio

7: Oaks of Monte Luca

8: Dead Christ.

Translations

Introductory note

Prelude

From The Spanish

Coplas De Manrique

Sonnets

1: Good Shepherd

2: To-Morrow

3: Native land

4: Image of God

5: Brook

Ancient Spanish Ballads

1: Rio Verde, Rio Verde

2: Don Nuno, count of Lara

3: 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

1: Eyes so tristful, eyes so tristful

2: Some day, some day

3: Come, O death, so silent flying

4: Glove of black in white hand bare

From The Swedish And Danish

Introductory note

Passages from Frithiof's saga

1: Frithiof's homestead

2: Sledge-ride on the ice

3: Frithiof's temptation

4: Frithiog's farewell

Children of the lord's supper

King Christian

Elected knight

Childhood

From the German, happiest land

Wave

Dead

Bird and the ship

Whither?

Beware!

Song of the bell

Castle by the sea

Black knight

Song of the silent land

Luck of Edenhall

Two locks of hair

Hemlock tree

Annie of Tharaw

Statue over the cathedral door

Legend of the crossbill

Sea hath its pearls

Poetic aphorisms

Silent love

Blessed are the dead

Wanderer's night-songs

Remorse

Forsaken

Allah

From The Anglo-Saxon

Grave

Beowulf's expedition to Heort

Soul's complaint against the body

From the French

Song: Hark! Hark!

Song: And Whither goest thou, gentle sigh

Return of spring

Spring

Child asleep

Death of Archbiship Turpin

Blind girl of Castel Castel Cuille

Christmas carol

Consolation

Cardinal Richelieu

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

Quiet life

Wine of Juranqon

Friar Lubin

Rondel

My Secret

From The Italian

Celestial pilot

Terrestrial paradise

Beatrice

To Italy

Seven Sonnets And A Canzone

1: Artist

2: Fire

3: Youth and age

4: Old age

5: To Vittoria Colonna

6: To Vittoria Colonna 7: Dante

8: Canzone

Nature of love

From The Portuguese

Song: If thou art sleeping, maiden

From Eastern Sources

Fugitive

Siege of Kazan

Boy and the brook

To the stork

From The Latin

Virgil's first ecolgue

Ovid in exile

Appendix

1: Juvenile poems

Battle of Lovell's pond

To Ianthe

Thanksgiving

Autumnal nightfall

Italian scenery

Lunatic girl

Venetian Gondolier

Angler's song

Lover's rock

Dirge over a nameless grave

Song of savoy

Indian hunter

Ode written for commemoration at Fryebur, Maine, of love well's fight

Jeckoyva

Sea-diver

Musings

Song

Song of the birds

2: Unacknowledged And Uncollected Translations

Let me go warm

Nativity of Christ

Assumption of the Virgin

Disembodied spirit

Ideal beauty

Lover's complaint

Art and nature

Two harvests

Clear honor of the liquid element

Praise of Little Women

Milagros de Nuestra Senora

Song of the Rhine

Elegy written in the Ruins of an old castle

Stars

Rondel

Banks of the Cher

To the forest of Gastine

Fontenay

Pray for me

Vire

Florentine song

Neapolitan Canzonet

Christmas Carol

Soldier's song

Tell me, tell me, thou pretty bee

Sicilian Canzonet

Gleaner of Sapri

3: Notes and illustrations

4: Chronological List of Mr Longfellow's Poems

Index of first lines

Index of titles.