BY

HENRY WADSTVORTH LONGFELLOW

COMPLETE IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOLUME I.

BOSTON:

TICKNOR AND FIELDS. .

M DCCC LXIII.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1858, by

HIENRY W. LONGFELLOW, in the Clerk's Ofice of the District Court of the District of

Massachusetts.

RIVERSIDE, CAMBRIDGE:

STEREOTYPED AND PRINTED BY H. 0. HOUGETON

CONTENTS OF VOLUME I.

VOICES OF THE NIGIIT.

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Prelude....

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.

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EARLIER POEMS.

An April Day...

Autunn.

Woods in Winter.

Hvinn of the Moravian Nuns of Betlilehem..

Sunrise on the Hills...

The Spirit of Poetry.

Burial of the Minnisink.

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TRANSLATIONS.

Coplas de Manrique.

The Good Shepherd..

To Morrow

The Native Land.

The Image of God.

The Brook..

Tlie Celestial Pilot

The Terrestrial Paradise.

Beatrice...

Spring ..

The Child Asleep.

The Grave..

King Christian.

The Happiest Land.

The Wave,

The Dead...

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MISCELLANEOUS.

The Village Blacksmith.

Endymion...

The Two Locks of Hair..

It is not always May.

The Rainy Day.

God's-Acre..

To the River Charles.

Blind Bartimeus..

The Goblet of Life.

Maidenhood.

Excelsior..

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POEMS ON SLAVERY.

lo 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..

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The Evening Star.

Autumn