Section: «Poems»
Verse (ancient Greek ὁ στίχος — row, structure), a term in versification used in several meanings:
artistic speech organized by division into rhythmically commensurate segments; poetry in the narrow sense; in particular, it implies the properties of versification of a particular tradition ("antique verse", "Akhmatova's verse", etc.);
a line of poetic text organized according to a certain rhythmic pattern ("My uncle of the most honest rules").
The Lunatic Girl
Most beautiful, most gentle! Yet how lostTo all that gladdens the fair earth; the eyeThat watched her being; the maternal careThat kept and nourished..
© Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Luck Of Edenhall. From The German Of Uhland
Of Edenhall, the youthful LordBids sound the festal trumpet's call.He rises at the banquet board,And cries, 'mid the drunken revellers all,'Now bring..
© Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Legend Of The Crossbill. (From The German Of Julius Mosen)
On the cross the dying SaviourHeavenward lifts his eyelids calm,Feels, but scarcely feels, a tremblingIn his pierced and bleeding palm.And by all the..
© Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Leap Of Roushan Beg. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The Fifth)
Mounted on Kyrat strong and fleet,His chestnut steed with four white feet,Roushan Beg, called Kurroglou,Son of the road and bandit chief,Seeking..
© Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Ladder Of St. Augustine. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The First)
Saint Augustine! well hast thou said,That of our vices we can frameA ladder, if we will but treadBeneath our feet each deed of shame!All common..
© Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Jewish Cemetery At Newport
How strange it seems! These Hebrews in their graves,Close by the street of this fair seaport town,Silent beside the never-silent waves,At rest in all..
© Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Indian Hunter
When the summer harvest was gathered in,And the sheaf of the gleaner grew white and thin,And the ploughshare was in its furrow left,Where the stubble..
© Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Image Of God (From The Spanish Of Francisco De Aldana)
O Lord! who seest, from yon starry heightCentred in one the future and the pastFashioned in thine own image, seeThe world obscures in me what once..
© Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Hunting Of Pau-Puk Keewis
Full of wrath was HiawathaWhen he came into the village,Found the people in confusion,Heard of all the misdemeanors,All the malice and the..
© Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Herons Of Elmwood. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The Fifth)
Warm and still is the summer night,As here by the river's brink I wander;White overhead are the stars, and whiteThe glimmering lamps on the hillside..
© Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Hemlock Tree. (From The German)
O Hemlock tree! O hemlock tree! how faithful are thy branches!Green not alone in summer time,But in the winter's frost and rime!O hemlock tree! O..
© Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Haunted Chamber. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The Third)
Each heart has its haunted chamber,Where the silent moonlight falls!On the floor are mysterious footsteps,There are whispers along the walls!And mine..
© Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Harvest Moon
It is the Harvest Moon! On gilded vanesAnd roofs of villages, on woodland crestsAnd their aerial neighborhoods of nestsDeserted, on the curtained..
© Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Happiest Land. (From The German)
There sat one day in quiet,By an alehouse on the Rhine,Four hale and hearty fellows,And drank the precious wine.The landlord's daughter filled their..
© Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Happiest Land. (From The German)
There sat one day in quiet,By an alehouse on the Rhine,Four hale and hearty fellows,And drank the precious wine.The landlord's daughter filled their..
© Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Hanging Of The Crane
The lights are out, and gone are all the guestsThat thronging came with merriment and jestsTo celebrate the Hanging of the CraneIn the new..
© Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Grave. From The Anglo-Saxon
For thee was a house builtEre thou wast born,For thee was a mould meantEre thou of mother camest.But it is not made ready,Nor its depth measured,Nor..
© Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Good Shepherd (From The Spanish Of Lope De Vega)
Shepherd! who with thine amorous sylvan songsHast broken the slumber that encompassed me,Who mad'st thy crook from the accursed tree,On which thy..
© Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Good Part That Shall Not Be Taken Away
She dwells by Great Kenhawa's side,In valleys green and cool;And all her hope and all her prideAre in the village school.Her soul, like the..
© Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Golden Mile-Stone. (Birds Of Passage. Flight The First)
Leafless are the trees; their purple branchesSpread themselves abroad, like reefs of coral,Rising silentIn the Red Sea of the winter sunset.From the..
© Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Golden Legend: Vi. The School Of Salerno
A traveling Scholastic affixing his Theses to the gateof the College._Scholastic._ There, that is my gauntlet, my banner, my shield,Hung up as a..
© Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Golden Legend: V. A Covered Bridge At Lucerne
_Prince Henry_. God's blessing on the architects who buildThe bridges o'er swift rivers and abyssesBefore impassable to human feet,No less than on..
© Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Golden Legend: Prologue & 1.
THE SPIRE OF STRASBURG CATHEDRAL.Night and storm. LUCIFER, with the Powers of theAir, trying to tear down the Cross._Lucifer._ HASTEN! hasten!O ye..
© Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Golden Legend: Iv. The Road To Hirschau
PRINCE HENRY _and_ ELSIE, _with their attendants, onhorseback.__Elsie._ Onward and onward the highway runsto the distant city, impatiently..
© Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Golden Legend: Iii. A Street In Strasburg
Night.PRINCE HENRY _wandering alone, wrapped in a cloak.__Prince Henry._ Still is the night. The sound of feetHas died away from the empty street,And..
© Henry Wadsworth Longfellow