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The poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

in six volumes

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882)

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BIRDS OF PASSAGE

FLIGHT THE FIRST.

FLIGHT THE SECOND

FLIGHT THE THIRD

FLIGHT THE FOURTH

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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 OF THE FRENCH FLEET.

THE LEAP OF ROUSHAN BEG.

HAROUN AL RASCHID.

A WRAITH IN THE MIST.

THE THREE KINGS.

THE WHITE CZAR.

DELIA.

THE MASQUE OF PANDORA

THE HANGING OF THE CRANE

MORITURI SALUTAMUS

A BOOK OF SONNETS

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DELIA.

Sweet as the tender fragrance that survives,
When martyred flowers breathe out their little lives,

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Sweet as a song that once consoled our pain,
But never will be sung to us again,
Is thy remembrance. Now the hour of rest
Hath come to thee. Sleep, darling; it is best.