Favorite poems
Choice collection includes long narrative poem, "The Courtship of Miles Standish," plus such famous works as "The Village Blacksmith," "The Wreck of the Hesperus," "Paul Revere's Ride," "The Children's Hour," many more. Reprinted from standard edition
Poetry
viii, 85 pages ; 21 cm.
9780486272733, 0486272737
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From Voices of the Night (1839): Hymn to the night (1839)
Psalm of life (1838)
Reaper and the flowers (1838)
Light of stars (1838)
From Ballads and Other Poems (1841): Wreck of the Hesperus (1839)
Village blacksmith (1839)
Rainy day (1841)
Excelsior (1841)
From Poems on Slavery (1842): Slave's dream (1842)
From the Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems (1845): Bridge (1845)
Day is done (1844)
Arrow and the song (1845)
From the Seaside and the Fireside (1849): Building of the ship (1849)
Secret of the sea (1848)
From the Courtship of Miles Standish, and Other Poems (1858): Courtship of Miles Standish (1857-58)
From the subsection "Birds of Passage; Flight the First": Ladder of Saint Augustine (1850)
My lost youth (1855)
Santa Filomena (1857)
From Tales of a Wayside Inn (in three parts: 1863, 1872, and 1873 in the volume Aftermath): Children's hour (1859, from the subsection "Birds of Passage: Flight the Second" in the 1863 volume)
Paul Revere's ride (1860: Landlord's Tale in the Part First of the Tales)
Elizabeth (1873: Theologian's Tale in Part Third of the Tales)
From Flower-de-luce (1866): Christmas bells (1864)
Giotto's tower (1866)
Poets (1876: Included in the subsection "A Book of Sonnets" in complete-works editions)
Translations: Beware! (1836?; from the anonymous German "Hut du dich!"; first published in Voices of the Night, 1839)
Retribution (1836?; one of the "Poetic Aphorisms" from the Sinngedichte by Friedrich von Logau, 1604-1655; first published in 1845)