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[Poems by Longfellow in] Final memorials of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882)
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[The same wind blowing]
To J. T. Fields.
Epitaph
[What is autobiography]
[When you ask one friend to dine]
[The soldier asked for bread]
[Better juice of vine]
FRAGMENTS OF VERSE.
GREAT AND SMALL.
THOUGHT AND SPEECH.
REFORMERS.
EGYPT.
LEAVES.
QUATRAIN.
TWELFTH-NIGHT.
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[Poems by Longfellow in] Final memorials of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
QUATRAIN.
Why waste the hours in idle talk,
When life is short, and time is flying?
Why interrupt my work or walk,
Since while we 're living, we are dying?
[Poems by Longfellow in] Final memorials of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow