Author:Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
(1807–1882)

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Works

Plays

• The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858)
• Giles Corey of the Salem Farms
• John Endicott
• Judas Maccabaeus
• The Spanish Student (1842)

Prose

• Hyperion (1900) (transcription project)

Poems

Voices of the Night (1839)

• Prelude
• Hymn to the Night
• A Psalm of Life
• The Reaper and the Flowers
• The Light of Stars
• Footsteps of Angels
• Flowers
• The Beleaguered City
• Midnight Mass for the Dying Year

Earlier Poems (1839)

• An April Day
• Autumn (1828)
• Woods in Winter
• Hymn of the Moravian Nuns of Bethlehem
• Sunrise on the Hills
• The Spirit of Poetry
• Burial of the Minnisink
• L'Envoi

Ballads and Other Poems (1841)

• The Luck of Edenhall
• The Skeleton in Armor (1841)
• The Wreck of the Hesperus (1842)
• The Village Blacksmith
• Endymion
• It is not Always May
• The Rainy Day
• God's-Acre
• To the River Charles
• Blind Bartimeus
• The Goblet of Life
• Maidenhood
• Excelsior

Poems on Slavery (1842)

• To William E. Channing
• The Slave's Dream
• The Good Part, that shall not be taken away
• The Slave in the Dismal Swamp
• The Slave singing at Midnight
• The Witnesses
• The Quadroon Girl
• The Warning

The Spanish Student (1842) (see plays)

The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems (1845) (transcription project)

• Carillon
• The Belfry of Bruges (1845)
• A Gleam of Sunshine
• The Arsenal at Springfield
• Nuremberg
• The Norman Baron
• Rain in Summer
• To a Child
• The Occultation of Orion
• The Bridge
• To the Driving Cloud
• The day is done
• Afternoon in February
• To an old Danish Song-Book
• Walter von der Vogelweide
• Drinking Song
• The old Clock on the Stairs
• The Arrow and the Song
• The Evening Star
• Autumn
• Dante

Sonnets.

• Mezzo Cammin (1842)
• Curfew

Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie (1847)

• Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie

The Seaside and the Fireside (1850)

The Golden Legend (1851) (start transcription)

The Song of Hiawatha (1855)

The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858)

Birds of Passage (Flight the First; Flight the Second)

Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863)

Flower-de-Luce (1867)

Birds of Passage (Flight the Third)

The Masque of Pandora

The Hanging of the Crane

Morituri Salutamus

A Book of Sonnets

Birds of Passage (Flight the Fourth)

Kéramos

Birds of Passage (Flight the Fifth)

Ultima Thule (1880)

In the Harbor (1882)

Fragments

Christus: A Mystery (1872)

Judas Maccabæus

Michael Angelo: A Fragment (1883)

Translations

Appendix

• "Aftermath"
• "Amalfi"
• "Auf Wiedersehen"
• "Autumn Within"
• "Azrael" (1863)
• "The Ballad of Carmilhan" (1863)
• "A Ballad of the French Fleet"
• "The Baron of St. Castine" (1863)
• "Bayard Taylor" (1879)
• "Becalmed"
• "Belisarius"
• "The Bell of Atri" (1863)
• "The Bells of Lynn Heard at Nahant" in The Atlantic Monthly, 17 (99) (January, 1866)
• "The Bells of Lynn" (1867)
• "The Bells of San Blas" (1882)
• "The Birds of Killingworth" (1863)
• "Birds of Passage"
• "The Bridge of Cloud" (1867)
• "The Brook and the Wave"
• "The Builders" (1850)
• "The Building of the Ship" (1850)
• "The Burial of the Poet" (1880)
• "Cadenabbia"
• "The Castle-Builder"
• "Castles in Spain"
• "Catawba Wine" in The Atlantic Monthly, 1 (3) (January, 1858)
• "Catawba Wine" (1858)
• "The Challenge"
• "The Chamber over the Gate" (1880)
• "Changed"
• "Charlemagne" (1863)
• "Charles Sumner" (1874)
• "To Charles Sumner" in Littell's Living Age, 128 (1655) (1874), later published as part of Three Friends of Mine.
• "Chaucer"
• "Children"
• "The Children's Crusade"
• "The Children's Hour" (1860)
• "Chimes"
• "Christmas Bells" (1863)
• "Chrysaor" (1850)
• "The City and the Sea"
• "The Cobbler of Hagenau" (1863)
• "Concord" in The Atlantic Monthly, 14 (82) (1864)
• "The Cross of Snow" (1879)
• "The Cumberland"
• "A Day of Sunshine"
• "Daybreak"
• "Daylight and Moonlight"
• "Decoration Day"
• "Delia"
• "The Discoverer of the North Cape"
• "Divina Commedia" (1867)
• "A Dutch Picture"
• "Elegiac" (1880)
• "Elegiac Verse"
• "Elizabeth" (1863)
• "Emma and Eginhard" (1863)
• "The Emperor's Bird's-Nest"
• "The Emperor's Glove"
• "Enceladus"
• "Epimetheus, or the Poet's Afterthought"
• "The Falcon of Ser Federigo" (1863)
• "Fata Morgana"
• "The Fiftieth Birthday of Agassiz" (1857)
• "The Fire of Drift-Wood" (1850)
• "Flower-de-Luce" (1867)
• "Four by the Clock"
• "The Four Lakes of Madison"
• "A Fragment"
• "From my Arm-Chair" (1879)
  • "From my Armchair" in Littell's Living Age, 141 (1818)
• "Gaspar Becerra" (1850)
• "Giotto's Tower" (1867)
• "The Golden Mile-Stone" (1857)
• "Haroun Al Raschid."
• "The Haunted Chamber"
• "Haunted Houses"
• "Hawthorne" (1867)
• "Helen of Tyre" (1880)
• "Hermes Trismegistus"
• "The Herons of Elmwood"
• "Hymn for My Brother's Ordination" (1850)
• "In the Churchyard at Cambridge"
• "Inscription on the Shanklin Fountain"
• "The Iron Pen" (1880)
• "The Jewish Cemetery at Newport"
• "Jugurtha" (1880)
• "Kambalu" (1863)
• "Killed at the Ford" (1867)
• "King Robert of Sicily" (1863)
• "King Trisanku"
• "King Witlaf's Drinking-Horn" (1850)
• "The Ladder of St. Augustine"
• "Lady Wentworth" (1863)
• "The Leap of Roushan Beg"
• "The Legend Beautiful" (1863)
• "The Legend of Rabbi Ben Levi" (1863)
• "The Lighthouse" (1850)
• "Loss and Gain"
• "Mad River"
• "Maiden and Weathercock" (1880)
• "The Meeting"
• "Memories"
• "The Monk of Casa-Maggiore" (1863)
• "Monte Cassino"
• "Moonlight"
• "The Mother's Ghost" (1863)
• "Mustered Out
• "My Books"
• "My Cathedral" (1880)
• "My Lost Youth"
• "Night" (1880)
• "Noel"
• "Old St. David's at Radnor" (1880)
• "Oliver Basselin"
• "On Translating the Divina Commedia (first sonnet)" in The Atlantic Monthly, 14 (86) (December, 1864)
• "On Translating the Divina Commedia (second sonnet)" in The Atlantic Monthly, 18 (105) (July, 1866)
• "On Translating the Divina Commedia (third sonnet)" in The Atlantic Monthly, 18 (107) (September, 1866)
• "On Translating the Divina Commedia (fourth sonnet)" in The Atlantic Monthly, 18 (109) (November, 1866)
• "The Open Window" (1850)
• Palingenesis (1864)
• "Palingenesis" (1867)
• "Paul Revere's Ride" (1863)
• "Pegasus in Pound" (1850)
• "The Phantom Ship"
• "Poem of Scanderbeg" (1863)
• "The Poet and his Songs"
• "The Poet's Calendar"
• "Possibilities"
• "President Garfield" (1881)
• "Prometheus, or the Poet's Forethought"
• "Resignation" (1850)
• "The Revenge of Rain-in-the-Face"
• "The Rhyme of Sir Christopher" (1863)
• "Robert Burns" (1880)
• "The Ropewalk"
• "Sand of the Desert in an Hour-Glass" (1850)
• "Sandalphon"
• "Santa Filomena"
• "Scanderbeg"
• "Seaweed" (1850)
• "The Secret of the Sea" (1850)
• "The Sermon of St. Francis"
• "The Sifting of Peter" (1880)
• "The Singers" (1850)
• "Sir Humphrey Gilbert" (1850)
• "Snow-Flakes"
• "Something Left Undone"
• Song: "Stay, Stay at Home, my Heart, and Rest."
• "Songo River"
• "Sonnet on Mrs. Kemble's Reading from Shakespeare" (1850)
• "Stars of the Summer Night (1842)
• "Sundown"
• "Suspiria" (1850)
• "Tegner's Drapa" (1850)
• "There Was a Little Girl"
• "The Three Kings"
• "The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls" (1880)
• ""The Tides" in Littell's Living Age, 128 (1655)"
• "To-morrow" (1867)
• "To the Avon"
• "To the River Yvette"
• "Torquemada" (1863)
• "Travels by the Fireside"
• "Twilight" (1850)
• "The Two Angels"
• “Untitled” in Birdcraft 1895.
• "Victor and Vanquished"
• "Victor Galbraith"
• "Vittoria Colonna"
• "Vox Populi"
• "The Warden of the Cinque Ports"
• "Weariness"
• "The White Czar"
• "The Wind over the Chimney" (1867)
• "The Windmill" (1880)
• "A Wraith in the Mist"

Collections

• Voices of the Night (1839)
• Ballads and Other Poems (1841)
• Poems on Slavery (1842)
• The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems (1845)
• The Seaside and the Fireside (1850)
• The Courtship of Miles Standish and Other Poems (1858)
• Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863)
• Flower-de-Luce (1867)
• Christus: A Mystery (1872)
• Ultima Thule (1880)
• In the Harbor (1882)
• Michael Angelo (1883)
• Birds of Passage

Translations

• Dante's Divine Comedy, 3 vols. (1867)
• Kong Kristian
• I Hear Along Our Street

As editor

• The Poets and Poetry of Europe with Introductions and Biographical Notices (1845)

Works about Longfellow

Encyclopedia articles

• "Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth," in The American Cyclopædia (1879)
• "Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth," in Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886, by Joseph Foster, London: Parker and Co. (1888–1892) in 4 vols.
• "Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth," by Thomas Davidson in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)

Poems about Longfellow

• "H. W. Longfellow" in Littell's Living Age, 1 (1) (1844)
• A Fable for Critics by James Russell Lowell (1848)
• "To H. W. L." by James Russell Lowell (1867)
• "To H. W. Longfellow" by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1868)
• "The Craigie House" by Charlotte Fiske Bates (1879)
• "Our Dead Singer" by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1882)
• "Longfellow" by James Whitcomb Riley (1907)
• "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow" by Florence Earle Coates (1909)

On his works

• Review of Ballads and Other Poems by Edgar Allan Poe (1842)
• "Evangeline," in The New Student's Reference Work, Chicago: F.E. Compton and Co. (1914)
• "Minnehaha," in The New International Encyclopædia, New York: Dodd, Mead and Co. (1905)