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The Writings of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (5)
The Writings of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 5 Author:Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Title: The Writings of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Birds of Passage. Flower-De-Luce. a Book of Sonnets. the Masque of Pandora and Other Poems. Kéramos. Ultima Thule and in the Harbor Volume: 5 General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1886 Original Publisher: Houghton, Mifflin Notes: This is a black and white OCR repri... more »nt of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: FLIGHT THE FOURTH Collected in the volume entitled The Majiqut of Pandora and other Potmf, 1870. The first draft of the first poem Wm made March 30, 174. It did not satisfy the poet, for he wrote, April 2: " I have been trying to write something about Sunnier, but to little purpose. I cannot collect my faculties." CHARLES SUMKER. Garlands upon his grave And flowers upon his hearse, And to the tender heart and bravo The tribute of this versc. His was the troubled life. The conflict and the pain, The grief, the bitterness of strife, The honor without stain. Like "Winkelried, he took Into his manly breast The sheaf of hostile spears, and broke A path for the oppressed. Then from the fatal field Upon a nation's heart Borne like a warrior on his shield ! -- So should the brave depart. Death takes us by surprise, And stays our hurrying feet; The great design unfinished lies, Our lives are incomplete. But in the dark unknown Perfect their circles seem, Even as a bridge's arch of stone Is rounded in the stream. Alike are life and death, When life in death survives, And the uninterrupted breath Inspires a thousand lives. Were a star quenched on high, For ages would its light, Still travelling downward from the sky, Shine on our mortal sight. So when a great man dies, For years beyond our ken, The light he leaves beh...« less