The Golden Legend: V. A Covered Bridge At Lucerne (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
_Prince Henry_. God's blessing on the architects who buildThe bridges o'er swift rivers and abyssesBefore impassable to human feet,No less ...
_Prince Henry_. God's blessing on the architects who buildThe bridges o'er swift rivers and abyssesBefore impassable to human feet,No less ...
THE SPIRE OF STRASBURG CATHEDRAL.Night and storm. LUCIFER, with the Powers of theAir, trying to tear down the Cross. _Lucifer._ HASTEN! ...
"Build me straight, O worthy Master! Stanch and strong, a goodly vessel, That shall laugh at all disaster, And with wave and whirlwind ...
O let the soul her slumbers break,Let thought be quickened, and awake;Awake to seeHow soon this life is past and ...
Full of wrath was HiawathaWhen he came into the village,Found the people in confusion,Heard of all the misdemeanors,All the malice ...
IN that delightful land, which is washed by the Delaware's waters,Guarding in sylvan shades the name of Penn the apostle.Stands ...
Forth upon the Gitche Gumee,On the shining Big-Sea-Water,With his fishing-line of cedar,Of the twisted bark of cedar,Forth to catch the ...
A GADARENE.He hath escaped, hath plucked his chains asunder,And broken his fetters; always night and dayIs in the mountains here, ...
Far and wide among the nationsSpread the name and fame of Kwasind;No man dared to strive with Kwasind,No man could ...
Still through Egypt's desert places Flows the lordly Nile,From its banks the great stone faces Gaze with patient smile.Still the pyramids imperious Pierce ...
Rabbi Ben Levi, on the Sabbath, readA volume of the Law, in which it said,"No man shall look upon my ...
What say the Bells of San BlasTo the ships that southward pass From the harbor of Mazatlan?To them it is nothing ...
This is the Arsenal. From floor to ceiling,Like a huge organ, rise the burnished arms;But front their silent pipes no ...
See, the fire is sinking low,Dusky red the embers glow, While above them still I cower,While a moment more I linger,Though ...
Under the walls of MontereyAt daybreak the bugles began to play, Victor Galbraith!In the mist of the morning damp and gray,These ...
There is a Reaper whose name is Death,And, with his sickle keen,He reaps the bearded grain at a breath,And the ...
"A soldier of the Union mustered out," Is the inscription on an unknown grave At Newport News, beside the salt-sea wave, Nameless and ...
Oft I remember those I have knownIn other days, to whom my heart was leadAs by a magnet, and who ...
O Traveller, stay thy weary feet;Drink of this fountain, pure and sweet;It flows for rich and poor the same.Then go ...
Full of wrath was Hiawatha When he came into the village, Found the people in confusion, Heard of all the ...
What phantom is this that appears Through the purple mist of the years, Itself but a mist like these? A ...
January Janus am I; oldest of potentates; Forward I look, and backward, and below I count, as god of avenues ...
Oft have I seen at some cathedral door . A laborer, pausing in the dust and heat, . Lay down ...
The young Endymion sleeps Endymion's sleep; The shepherd-boy whose tale was left half told! The solemn grove uplifts its shield ...
Forth upon the Gitche Gumee, On the shining Big-Sea-Water, With his fishing-line of cedar, Of the twisted bark of cedar, ...
"Build me straight, O worthy Master! Stanch and strong, a goodly vessel, That shall laugh at all disaster, And with ...
Far and wide among the nations Spread the name and fame of Kwasind; No man dared to strive with Kwasind, ...
Vogelweid the Minnesinger, When he left this world of ours, Laid his body in the cloister, Under Wurtzburg's minster towers. ...
Oft I remember those I have known In other days, to whom my heart was lead As by a magnet, ...
This is the Arsenal. From floor to ceiling, Like a huge organ, rise the burnished arms; But front their silent ...
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