By The Seaside : The Building Of The Ship (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poems)
"Build me straight, O worthy Master! Stanch and strong, a goodly vessel, That shall laugh at all disaster, And with wave and whirlwind ...
"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 ...
One summer morning, when the sun was hot,Weary with labor in his garden-plot,On a rude bench beneath his cottage eaves,Ser ...
NOW had the season returned, when the nights grow colder and longer,And the retreating sun the sign of the Scorpion ...
How strange it seems! These Hebrews in their graves, Close by the street of this fair seaport town, Silent beside the never-silent ...
Of Edenhall, the youthful LordBids sound the festal trumpet's call.He rises at the banquet board,And cries, 'mid the drunken revellers ...
They made the warrior's grave besideThe dashing of his native time:And there was mourning in the glen--The strong wail of ...
"Hast thou seen that lordly castle, That Castle by the Sea?Golden and red above it The clouds float gorgeously."And fain it would ...
By yon still river, where the wave Is winding slow at evening's close,The beech, upon a nameless grave, Its sadly-moving shadow throws.O'er ...
In the village churchyard she lies,Dust is in her beautiful eyes, No more she breathes, nor feels, nor stirs;At her feet ...
When I compareWhat I have lost with what I have gained,What I have missed with what attained, Little room do I ...
"Build me straight, O worthy Master! Stanch and strong, a goodly vessel, That shall laugh at all disaster, And with ...
How strange it seems! These Hebrews in their graves, Close by the street of this fair seaport town, Silent beside ...
In broad daylight, and at noon, Yesterday I saw the moon Sailing high, but faint and white, As a schoolboy's ...
When I compare What I have lost with what I have gained, What I have missed with what attained, Little ...
She dwells by Great Kenhawa's side, In valleys green and cool; And all her hope and all her pride Are ...
In Ocean's wide domains, Half buried in the sands, Lie skeletons in chains, With shackled feet and hands. Beyond the ...
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