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+ display: block;} + div.trans-note { /* Make cover TN visible for epub */ + visibility: visible; + display: block;} + } + </style> +</head> +<body> +<div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 44398 ***</div> + +<div class="trans-note"> +<div class="covernote"> +<p class="heading">Transcriber's Note</p> +<p>The cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the +public domain.</p> +</div></div> + +<div id="title-page"> + +<h1>POEMS<br /> + +<small>ON</small><br /> + +SLAVERY.</h1> + + +<p><small>BY</small></p> + +<p><span class="st">HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW.</span></p> + + +<p><span class="st">SECOND EDITION.</span></p> + + +<p class="spacious">CAMBRIDGE:<br /> +<small>PUBLISHED BY JOHN OWEN.</small></p> + +<hr class="tiny" /> +<p><small>M DCCC XLII.</small></p> +</div> + +<hr /> + +<div class="narrow"> +<blockquote> +<p class="center">Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year eighteen hundred +and forty-two, by <span class="smcap">H. W. Longfellow</span>, in the Clerk's office +of the District Court of the District of Massachusetts.</p> +</blockquote> +</div> + +<hr class="short" /> +<p class="center spacious"> +CAMBRIDGE:<br /> +<small>METCALF, KEITH, AND NICHOLS,<br /> +<small>PRINTERS TO THE UNIVERSITY.</small></small></p> + +<hr /> + + +<h2><a name="CONTENTS" id="CONTENTS">CONTENTS.</a></h2> + +<div class="center"> +<table class="toc" summary=""> +<tr><td class="left"> </td><td class="right"><span class="sc">page</span></td></tr> +<tr><td class="left"><span class="sc">To William E. Channing</span></td><td class="right"><a href="#Page_9">9</a></td></tr> +<tr><td class="left"><span class="sc">The Slave's Dream</span></td><td class="right"><a href="#Page_11">11</a></td></tr> +<tr><td class="left"><span class="sc">The Good Part</span></td><td class="right"><a href="#Page_15">15</a></td></tr> +<tr><td class="left"><span class="sc">The Slave in the Dismal Swamp</span></td><td class="right"><a href="#Page_18">18</a></td></tr> +<tr><td class="left"><span class="sc">The Slave singing at Midnight</span></td><td class="right"><a href="#Page_21">21</a></td></tr> +<tr><td class="left"><span class="sc">The Witnesses</span></td><td class="right"><a href="#Page_23">23</a></td></tr> +<tr><td class="left"><span class="sc">The Quadroon Girl</span></td><td class="right"><a href="#Page_26">26</a></td></tr> +<tr><td class="left"><span class="sc">The Warning</span></td><td class="right"><a href="#Page_30">30</a></td></tr> +</table></div> + +<hr /> + +<div class="narrow"> +<blockquote> + +<p>[The following poems, with one exception, were written at sea, in +the latter part of October. I had not then heard of Dr. Channing's +death. Since that event, the poem addressed to him is no longer +appropriate. I have decided, however, to let it remain as it was +written, a feeble testimony of my admiration for a great and good +man.]</p> +</blockquote> +</div> + +<hr /> + +<div id="half-title"> +<h2>POEMS.</h2> +</div> + +<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> +<div class="verse i20">The noble horse,</div> +<div class="verse i0">That, in his fiery youth, from his wide nostrils</div> +<div class="verse i0">Neighed courage to his rider, and brake through</div> +<div class="verse i0">Groves of opposed pikes, bearing his lord</div> +<div class="verse i0">Safe to triumphant victory, old or wounded,</div> +<div class="verse i0">Was set at liberty and freed from service.</div> +<div class="verse i0">The Athenian mules, that from the quarry drew</div> +<div class="verse i0">Marble, hewed for the Temple of the Gods,</div> +<div class="verse i0">The great work ended, were dismissed and fed</div> +<div class="verse i0">At the public cost; nay, faithful dogs have found</div> +<div class="verse i0">Their sepulchres; but man, to man more cruel,</div> +<div class="verse i0">Appoints no end to the sufferings of his slave.</div> +</div></div></div> + +<p class="right sc">Massinger.</p> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_9" id="Page_9">[Pg 9]</a></span></p> + + +<h2>TO WILLIAM E. CHANNING.</h2> + +<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> +<div class="verse i0">The pages of thy book I read,</div> +<div class="verse i2">And as I closed each one,</div> +<div class="verse i0">My heart, responding, ever said,</div> +<div class="verse i2">"Servant of God! well done!"</div> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<div class="verse i0">Well done! Thy words are great and bold;</div> +<div class="verse i2">At times they seem to me,</div> +<div class="verse i0">Like Luther's, in the days of old,</div> +<div class="verse i2">Half-battles for the free.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_10" id="Page_10">[Pg 10]</a></span></div> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<div class="verse i0">Go on, until this land revokes</div> +<div class="verse i2">The old and chartered Lie,</div> +<div class="verse i0">The feudal curse, whose whips and yokes</div> +<div class="verse i2">Insult humanity.</div> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<div class="verse i0">A voice is ever at thy side</div> +<div class="verse i2">Speaking in tones of might,</div> +<div class="verse i0">Like the prophetic voice, that cried</div> +<div class="verse i2">To John in Patmos, "Write!"</div> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<div class="verse i0">Write! and tell out this bloody tale;</div> +<div class="verse i2">Record this dire eclipse,</div> +<div class="verse i0">This Day of Wrath, this Endless Wail,</div> +<div class="verse i2">This dread Apocalypse!</div> +</div></div></div> +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_11" id="Page_11">[Pg 11]</a></span></p> + + +<h2>THE SLAVE'S DREAM.</h2> + +<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> +<div class="verse i0">Beside the ungathered rice he lay,</div> +<div class="verse i2">His sickle in his hand;</div> +<div class="verse i0">His breast was bare, his matted hair</div> +<div class="verse i2">Was buried in the sand.</div> +<div class="verse i0">Again, in the mist and shadow of sleep,</div> +<div class="verse i2">He saw his Native Land.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_12" id="Page_12">[Pg 12]</a></span></div> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<div class="verse i0">Wide through the landscape of his dreams</div> +<div class="verse i2">The lordly Niger flowed;</div> +<div class="verse i0">Beneath the palm-trees on the plain</div> +<div class="verse i2">Once more a king he strode;</div> +<div class="verse i0">And heard the tinkling caravans</div> +<div class="verse i2">Descend the mountain-road.</div> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<div class="verse i0">He saw once more his dark-eyed queen</div> +<div class="verse i2">Among her children stand;</div> +<div class="verse i0">They clasped his neck, they kissed his cheeks,</div> +<div class="verse i2">They held him by the hand!—</div> +<div class="verse i0">A tear burst from the sleeper's lids</div> +<div class="verse i2">And fell into the sand.</div> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<div class="verse i0">And then at furious speed he rode</div> +<div class="verse i2">Along the Niger's bank;</div> +<div class="verse i0">His bridle-reins were golden chains,</div> +<div class="verse i2">And, with a martial clank,</div> +<div class="verse i0">At each leap he could feel his scabbard of steel</div> +<div class="verse i2">Smiting his stallion's flank.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_13" id="Page_13">[Pg 13]</a></span></div> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<div class="verse i0">Before him, like a blood-red flag,</div> +<div class="verse i2">The bright flamingoes flew;</div> +<div class="verse i0">From morn till night he followed their flight,</div> +<div class="verse i2">O'er plains where the tamarind grew,</div> +<div class="verse i0">Till he saw the roofs of Caffre huts,</div> +<div class="verse i2">And the ocean rose to view.</div> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<div class="verse i0">At night he heard the lion roar,</div> +<div class="verse i2">And the hyæna scream,</div> +<div class="verse i0">And the river-horse, as he crushed the reeds</div> +<div class="verse i2">Beside some hidden stream;</div> +<div class="verse i0">And it passed, like a glorious roll of drums,</div> +<div class="verse i2">Through the triumph of his dream.</div> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<div class="verse i0">The forests, with their myriad tongues,</div> +<div class="verse i2">Shouted of liberty;</div> +<div class="verse i0">And the Blast of the Desert cried aloud,</div> +<div class="verse i2">With a voice so wild and free,</div> +<div class="verse i0">That he started in his sleep and smiled</div> +<div class="verse i2">At their tempestuous glee.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_14" id="Page_14">[Pg 14]</a></span></div> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<div class="verse i0">He did not feel the driver's whip,</div> +<div class="verse i2">Nor the burning heat of day;</div> +<div class="verse i0">For Death had illumined the Land of Sleep,</div> +<div class="verse i2">And his lifeless body lay</div> +<div class="verse i0">A worn-out fetter, that the soul</div> +<div class="verse i2">Had broken and thrown away!</div> +</div></div></div> +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_15" id="Page_15">[Pg 15]</a></span></p> + + +<h2>THE GOOD PART,<br /> +<small>THAT SHALL NOT BE TAKEN AWAY.</small></h2> + +<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> +<div class="verse i0">She dwells by Great Kenhawa's side,</div> +<div class="verse i2">In valleys green and cool;</div> +<div class="verse i0">And all her hope and all her pride</div> +<div class="verse i2">Are in the village school.</div> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<div class="verse i0">Her soul, like the transparent air</div> +<div class="verse i2">That robes the hills above,</div> +<div class="verse i0">Though not of earth, encircles there</div> +<div class="verse i2">All things with arms of love.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_16" id="Page_16">[Pg 16]</a></span></div> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<div class="verse i0">And thus she walks among her girls</div> +<div class="verse i2">With praise and mild rebukes;</div> +<div class="verse i0">Subduing e'en rude village churls</div> +<div class="verse i2">By her angelic looks.</div> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<div class="verse i0">She reads to them at eventide</div> +<div class="verse i2">Of One who came to save;</div> +<div class="verse i0">To cast the captive's chains aside,</div> +<div class="verse i2">And liberate the slave.</div> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<div class="verse i0">And oft the blessed time foretells</div> +<div class="verse i2">When all men shall be free;</div> +<div class="verse i0">And musical, as silver bells,</div> +<div class="verse i2">Their falling chains shall be.</div> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<div class="verse i0">And following her beloved Lord,</div> +<div class="verse i2">In decent poverty,</div> +<div class="verse i0">She makes her life one sweet record</div> +<div class="verse i2">And deed of charity.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_17" id="Page_17">[Pg 17]</a></span></div> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<div class="verse i0">For she was rich, and gave up all</div> +<div class="verse i2">To break the iron bands</div> +<div class="verse i0">Of those who waited in her hall,</div> +<div class="verse i2">And labored in her lands.</div> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<div class="verse i0">Long since beyond the Southern Sea</div> +<div class="verse i2">Their outbound sails have sped,</div> +<div class="verse i0">While she, in meek humility,</div> +<div class="verse i2">Now earns her daily bread.</div> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<div class="verse i0">It is their prayers, which never cease,</div> +<div class="verse i2">That clothe her with such grace;</div> +<div class="verse i0">Their blessing is the light of peace</div> +<div class="verse i2">That shines upon her face.</div> +</div></div></div> +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_18" id="Page_18">[Pg 18]</a></span></p> + + +<h2>THE SLAVE IN THE DISMAL SWAMP.</h2> + +<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> +<div class="verse i0">In dark fens of the Dismal Swamp</div> +<div class="verse i2">The hunted Negro lay;</div> +<div class="verse i0">He saw the fire of the midnight camp,</div> +<div class="verse i0">And heard at times a horse's tramp</div> +<div class="verse i2">And a bloodhound's distant bay.</div> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<div class="verse i0">Where will-o'-the-wisps and glowworms shine,</div> +<div class="verse i2">In bulrush and in brake;</div> +<div class="verse i0">Where waving mosses shroud the pine,</div> +<div class="verse i0">And the cedar grows, and the poisonous vine</div> +<div class="verse i2">Is spotted like the snake;<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_19" id="Page_19">[Pg 19]</a></span></div> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<div class="verse i0">Where hardly a human foot could pass,</div> +<div class="verse i2">Or a human heart would dare,</div> +<div class="verse i0">On the quaking turf of the green morass</div> +<div class="verse i0">He crouched in the rank and tangled grass,</div> +<div class="verse i2">Like a wild beast in his lair.</div> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<div class="verse i0">A poor old slave, infirm and lame;</div> +<div class="verse i2">Great scars deformed his face;</div> +<div class="verse i0">On his forehead he bore the brand of shame,</div> +<div class="verse i0">And the rags, that hid his mangled frame,</div> +<div class="verse i2">Were the livery of disgrace.</div> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<div class="verse i0">All things above were bright and fair,</div> +<div class="verse i2">All things were glad and free;</div> +<div class="verse i0">Lithe squirrels darted here and there,</div> +<div class="verse i0">And wild birds filled the echoing air</div> +<div class="verse i2">With songs of Liberty!<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_20" id="Page_20">[Pg 20]</a></span></div> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<div class="verse i0">On him alone was the doom of pain,</div> +<div class="verse i2">From the morning of his birth;</div> +<div class="verse i0">On him alone the curse of Cain</div> +<div class="verse i0">Fell, like a flail on the garnered grain,</div> +<div class="verse i2">And struck him to the earth!</div> +</div></div></div> +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_21" id="Page_21">[Pg 21]</a></span></p> + +<h2>THE SLAVE SINGING AT MIDNIGHT.</h2> + +<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> +<div class="verse i0">Loud he sang the psalm of David!</div> +<div class="verse i0">He, a Negro and enslaved,</div> +<div class="verse i0">Sang of Israel's victory,</div> +<div class="verse i0">Sang of Zion, bright and free.</div> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<div class="verse i0">In that hour, when night is calmest,</div> +<div class="verse i0">Sang he from the Hebrew Psalmist,</div> +<div class="verse i0">In a voice so sweet and clear</div> +<div class="verse i0">That I could not choose but hear,<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_22" id="Page_22">[Pg 22]</a></span></div> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<div class="verse i0">Songs of triumph, and ascriptions,</div> +<div class="verse i0">Such as reached the swart Egyptians,</div> +<div class="verse i0">When upon the Red Sea coast</div> +<div class="verse i0">Perished Pharaoh and his host.</div> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<div class="verse i0">And the voice of his devotion</div> +<div class="verse i0">Filled my soul with strange emotion;</div> +<div class="verse i0">For its tones by turns were glad,</div> +<div class="verse i0">Sweetly solemn, wildly sad.</div> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<div class="verse i0">Paul and Silas, in their prison,</div> +<div class="verse i0">Sang of Christ, the Lord arisen,</div> +<div class="verse i0">And an earthquake's arm of might</div> +<div class="verse i0">Broke their dungeon-gates at night.</div> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<div class="verse i0">But, alas! what holy angel</div> +<div class="verse i0">Brings the Slave this glad evangel?</div> +<div class="verse i0">And what earthquake's arm of might</div> +<div class="verse i0">Breaks his dungeon-gates at night?</div> +</div></div></div> +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_23" id="Page_23">[Pg 23]</a></span></p> + + +<h2>THE WITNESSES.</h2> + +<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> +<div class="verse i0">In Ocean's wide domains,</div> +<div class="verse i2">Half buried in the sands,</div> +<div class="verse i0">Lie skeletons in chains,</div> +<div class="verse i2">With shackled feet and hands.</div> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<div class="verse i0">Beyond the fall of dews,</div> +<div class="verse i2">Deeper than plummet lies,</div> +<div class="verse i0">Float ships, with all their crews,</div> +<div class="verse i2">No more to sink or rise.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_24" id="Page_24">[Pg 24]</a></span></div> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<div class="verse i0">There the black Slave-ship swims,</div> +<div class="verse i2">Freighted with human forms,</div> +<div class="verse i0">Whose fettered, fleshless limbs</div> +<div class="verse i2">Are not the sport of storms.</div> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<div class="verse i0">These are the bones of Slaves;</div> +<div class="verse i2">They gleam from the abyss;</div> +<div class="verse i0">They cry, from yawning waves,</div> +<div class="verse i2">"We are the Witnesses!"</div> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<div class="verse i0">Within Earth's wide domains</div> +<div class="verse i2">Are markets for men's lives;</div> +<div class="verse i0">Their necks are galled with chains,</div> +<div class="verse i2">Their wrists are cramped with gyves.</div> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<div class="verse i0">Dead bodies, that the kite</div> +<div class="verse i2">In deserts makes its prey;</div> +<div class="verse i0">Murders, that with affright</div> +<div class="verse i2">Scare schoolboys from their play!<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_25" id="Page_25">[Pg 25]</a></span></div> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<div class="verse i0">All evil thoughts and deeds;</div> +<div class="verse i2">Anger, and lust, and pride;</div> +<div class="verse i0">The foulest, rankest weeds,</div> +<div class="verse i2">That choke Life's groaning tide!</div> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<div class="verse i0">These are the woes of Slaves;</div> +<div class="verse i2">They glare from the abyss;</div> +<div class="verse i0">They cry, from unknown graves,</div> +<div class="verse i2">"We are the Witnesses!"</div> +</div></div></div> +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_26" id="Page_26">[Pg 26]</a></span></p> + + +<h2>THE QUADROON GIRL.</h2> + +<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> +<div class="verse i0">The Slaver in the broad lagoon</div> +<div class="verse i2">Lay moored with idle sail;</div> +<div class="verse i0">He waited for the rising moon,</div> +<div class="verse i2">And for the evening gale.</div> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<div class="verse i0">Under the shore his boat was tied,</div> +<div class="verse i2">And all her listless crew</div> +<div class="verse i0">Watched the gray alligator slide</div> +<div class="verse i2">Into the still bayou.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_27" id="Page_27">[Pg 27]</a></span></div> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<div class="verse i0">Odors of orange-flowers, and spice.</div> +<div class="verse i2">Reached them from time to time,</div> +<div class="verse i0">Like airs that breathe from Paradise</div> +<div class="verse i2">Upon a world of crime.</div> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<div class="verse i0">The Planter, under his roof of thatch,</div> +<div class="verse i2">Smoked thoughtfully and slow;</div> +<div class="verse i0">The Slaver's thumb was on the latch,</div> +<div class="verse i2">He seemed in haste to go.</div> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<div class="verse i0">He said, "My ship at anchor rides</div> +<div class="verse i2">In yonder broad lagoon;</div> +<div class="verse i0">I only wait the evening tides,</div> +<div class="verse i2">And the rising of the moon."</div> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<div class="verse i0">Before them, with her face upraised,</div> +<div class="verse i2">In timid attitude,</div> +<div class="verse i0">Like one half curious, half amazed,</div> +<div class="verse i2">A Quadroon maiden stood.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_28" id="Page_28">[Pg 28]</a></span></div> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<div class="verse i0">Her eyes were, like a falcon's, gray,</div> +<div class="verse i2">Her arms and neck were bare;</div> +<div class="verse i0">No garment she wore save a kirtle gay,</div> +<div class="verse i2">And her own long, raven hair.</div> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<div class="verse i0">And on her lips there played a smile</div> +<div class="verse i2">As holy, meek, and faint,</div> +<div class="verse i0">As lights in some cathedral aisle</div> +<div class="verse i2">The features of a saint.</div> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<div class="verse i0">"The soil is barren,—the farm is old;"</div> +<div class="verse i2">The thoughtful Planter said;</div> +<div class="verse i0">Then looked upon the Slaver's gold,</div> +<div class="verse i2">And then upon the maid.</div> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<div class="verse i0">His heart within him was at strife</div> +<div class="verse i2">With such accursed gains;</div> +<div class="verse i0">For he knew whose passions gave her life,</div> +<div class="verse i2">Whose blood ran in her veins.<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_29" id="Page_29">[Pg 29]</a></span></div> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<div class="verse i0">But the voice of nature was too weak;</div> +<div class="verse i2">He took the glittering gold!</div> +<div class="verse i0">Then pale as death grew the maiden's cheek,</div> +<div class="verse i2">Her hands as icy cold.</div> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<div class="verse i0">The Slaver led her from the door,</div> +<div class="verse i2">He led her by the hand,</div> +<div class="verse i0">To be his slave and paramour</div> +<div class="verse i2">In a strange and distant land!</div> +</div></div></div> + +<hr class="chap" /> + +<p><span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_30" id="Page_30">[Pg 30]</a></span></p> + + +<h2>THE WARNING.</h2> + +<div class="poetry-container"><div class="poetry"><div class="stanza"> +<div class="verse i0">Beware! The Israelite of old, who tore</div> +<div class="verse i2">The lion in his path,—when, poor and blind,</div> +<div class="verse i0">He saw the blessed light of heaven no more,</div> +<div class="verse i2">Shorn of his noble strength and forced to grind</div> +<div class="verse i0">In prison, and at last led forth to be</div> +<div class="verse i0">A pander to Philistine revelry,—</div> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<div class="verse i0">Upon the pillars of the temple laid</div> +<div class="verse i2">His desperate hands, and in its overthrow</div> +<div class="verse i0">Destroyed himself, and with him those who made</div> +<div class="verse i2">A cruel mockery of his sightless woe;</div> +<div class="verse i0">The poor, blind Slave, the scoff and jest of all,</div> +<div class="verse i0">Expired, and thousands perished in the fall!<span class="pagenum"><a name="Page_31" id="Page_31">[Pg 31]</a></span></div> +</div><div class="stanza"> +<div class="verse i0">There is a poor, blind Samson in this land,</div> +<div class="verse i2">Shorn of his strength, and bound in bonds of steel,</div> +<div class="verse i0">Who may, in some grim revel, raise his hand,</div> +<div class="verse i2">And shake the pillars of this Commonweal,</div> +<div class="verse i0">Till the vast Temple of our liberties</div> +<div class="verse i0">A shapeless mass of wreck and rubbish lies.</div> +</div></div></div> + + +<p class="center space-above space-below">END.</p> + +<div class="works"> + + +<h2>WORKS</h2> + +<p><big>PUBLISHED BY JOHN OWEN,</big><br /> +CAMBRIDGE.</p> + +<hr class="tiny"/> + +<p>I.</p> + +<p class="spacious">VOICES OF THE NIGHT.</p> + +<p class="st">BY</p> + +<p class="st">HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW.</p> + +<p class="st">6th Edition. 16mo. Boards.</p> + +<hr class="tiny" /> + +<p>II.</p> + +<p class="spacious">THE SAME.</p> + +<p class="st">Royal 8vo. Fine paper. Boards.</p> + +<hr class="tiny" /> + +<p>III.</p> + +<p class="spacious">BALLADS AND OTHER POEMS.</p> + +<p class="st">BY</p> + +<p class="st">HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW,</p> + +<p class="st">AUTHOR OF "VOICES OF THE NIGHT," "HYPERION," ETC.</p> + +<p class="st">4th Edition. 16mo. Boards.</p> + +<hr class="tiny" /> + +<p>IV.</p> + +<p class="spacious">THE SAME.</p> + +<p class="st">Royal 8vo. Fine paper. Boards.</p> +</div> + + + + +<div class="works"> +<p>V.</p> + +<p class="spacious"><small>THE</small><br /> +HISTORY<br /> +<small>OF</small><br /> +HARVARD UNIVERSITY.</p> + +<p class="st sc space-above">By JOSIAH QUINCY, LL. D.,<br /> +<small>PRESIDENT OF THE UNIVERSITY.</small></p> + +<p class="st">2 Vols. Royal 8vo. Cloth. 21 Engravings.</p> + +<hr class="tiny" /> +<p>VI.</p> + +<p class="spacious">AN INQUIRY<br /> +<small><small>INTO THE</small></small><br /> +<small>FOUNDATION, EVIDENCES, AND TRUTHS</small><br /> +<small><small>OF</small></small><br /> +RELIGION.</p> + +<p class="st sc space-above">By HENRY WARE, D. D.,<br /> +<small>LATE HOLLIS PROFESSOR OF DIVINITY IN HARVARD COLLEGE.</small></p> + +<p class="st">2 Vols. 12mo. Cloth.</p> + +</div> + +<div class="works"> + +<p>VII.</p> + +<p class="spacious">THE CLOUDS OF ARISTOPHANES.<br /> +<small>WITH NOTES.</small></p> + +<p class="st sc space-above">By C. C. FELTON,<br /> +<small><small>ELIOT PROFESSOR OF GREEK LITERATURE IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY.</small></small></p> + +<p class="st">12mo. Cloth.</p> + +<hr class="tiny" /> + +<p>VIII.</p> + +<p class="st">PROF. LIEBIG'S REPORT ON ORGANIC CHEMISTRY.</p> + +<p class="st"><small>PART I. AGRICULTURAL CHEMISTRY.</small></p> + +<p class="spacious">CHEMISTRY<br /> +<span class="xst">IN ITS</span><br /> +<small>APPLICATION TO AGRICULTURE AND PHYSIOLOGY.</small></p> + +<p class="xst sc">BY</p> + +<p class="st sc">JUSTUS LIEBIG, M.D., Ph.D., F.R.S., M.R.I.A.,<br /> +<small>PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF GIESSEN, ETC.</small></p> + +<p class="st space-above">EDITED FROM THE MANUSCRIPT OF THE AUTHOR,<br /> +<span class="sc">By LYON PLAYFAIR, Ph.D.</span><br /> +<small>WITH VERY NUMEROUS ADDITIONS, AND A NEW CHAPTER ON SOILS.</small></p> + +<p class="xst space-above">THIRD AMERICAN, FROM THE SECOND ENGLISH EDITION,<br /> +<big>WITH NOTES AND APPENDIX,</big></p> + +<p class="st sc spacious">By JOHN W. WEBSTER, M.D.,</p> +<p class="st">ERVING PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY.</p> + +<p class="st">12mo. Cloth.</p> + +</div> + +<div class="works"> + +<p>IX.</p> + +<p class="st">PART II. ANIMAL CHEMISTRY.</p> + +<p class="spacious">ANIMAL CHEMISTRY,<br /> +<span class="xst">OR ORGANIC CHEMISTRY IN ITS</span><br /> +<small>APPLICATION TO PHYSIOLOGY AND PATHOLOGY.</small></p> + +<p class="xst">BY</p> + +<p class="st sc">JUSTUS LIEBIG, M.D., Ph.D., F.R.S, M.R.I.A.,<br /> +<small>PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF GIESSEN, ETC.</small></p> + +<p class="st space-above"><small>EDITED FROM THE AUTHOR'S MANUSCRIPT,</small><br /> +<span class="smcap">By WILLIAM GREGORY, M.D., F.R.S.E., M.R.I.A.,</span><br /> +<small>PROFESSOR OF MEDICINE AND CHEMISTRY IN THE UNIVERSITY AND KING'S +COLLEGE, ABERDEEN.</small></p> + +<p class="st space-above"><small>WITH ADDITIONS, NOTES, AND CORRECTIONS,</small><br /> +<span class="smcap">By Dr. GREGORY,</span><br /> +<small>AND OTHERS</small><br /> +<span class="smcap spacious">By JOHN W. WEBSTER, M.D.,</span><br /> +<small>ERVING PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY.</small></p> + +<p class="st">12mo. Cloth.</p> + +<hr class="tiny" /> + +<p>X.</p> + +<p class="spacious">A NARRATIVE OF VOYAGESL<br /> +<span class="xst">AND</span><br /> +<small>COMMERCIAL ENTERPRISES.</small></p> + +<p class="st sc">By RICHARD J. CLEVELAND.</p> + +<p class="st">2 Vols. 12mo. Cloth.</p> + +</div> + +<div class="works"> + +<p>XI.</p> + +<p class="spacious">LECTURES ON MODERN HISTORY,<br /> +<span class="xst">FROM</span><br /> +<span class="st">THE IRRUPTION OF THE NORTHERN NATIONS</span><br /> +<span class="xst">TO THE</span><br /> +<span class="st">CLOSE OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION.</span></p> + +<p class="st sc space-above"><span class="spacious">By WILLIAM SMYTH,</span><br /> +<span class="st">PROFESSOR OF MODERN HISTORY IN THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE.</span></p> + +<p class="st space-above"><small>FROM THE SECOND LONDON EDITION,</small><br /> +WITH A PREFACE, LIST OF BOOKS ON AMERICAN HISTORY, &c.,</p> + +<p class="st"><span class="sc"><span class="spacious">By JARED SPARKS, LL. D.,</span></span><br /> +<small>PROFESSOR OF ANCIENT AND MODERN HISTORY IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY.</small></p> + +<p class="st">2 Vols. 8vo. Cloth.</p> + +<hr class="tiny" /> + +<p>XII.</p> + +<p class="spacious">HENRY OF OFTERDINGEN:</p> + +<p class="xst">A ROMANCE.<br /> +FROM THE GERMAN OF<br /> +<big>NOVALIS (<span class="smcap">FRIEDRICH von HARDENBERG</span>).</big></p> + +<p class="st">12mo. Cloth.</p> + +</div> + +<div class="works"> + +<h2>WORKS IN PRESS.</h2> + + +<p>I.</p> + +<p class="spacious">A TREATISE ON MINERALOGY,</p> + +<p class="st">ON THE BASIS OF THOMSON'S OUTLINES,<br /> +<small>WITH NUMEROUS ADDITIONS;</small></p> + +<p class="xst">COMPRISING<br /> +THE DESCRIPTION OF ALL THE NEW AMERICAN AND FOREIGN MINERALS, THEIR +LOCALITIES, &c.</p> + +<p class="xst">DESIGNED AS A TEXT-BOOK FOR STUDENTS, TRAVELLERS, AND PERSONS +ATTENDING LECTURES ON THE SCIENCE.</p> + +<p class="st space-above"><span class="smcap spacious">By JOHN W. WEBSTER, M.D.,</span><br /> +<small>ERVING PROFESSOR OF CHEMISTRY AND MINERALOGY IN HARVARD UNIVERSITY.</small></p> + +<p class="st">8vo.</p> + +<hr class="tiny" /> + +<p>II.</p> + +<p><small><span class="spacious">THE EVIDENCES</span></small><br /> +<span class="xst">OF THE</span><br /> +<big><span class="spacious">GENUINENESS OF THE GOSPELS.</span></big></p> + +<p class="st sc space-above spacious">By ANDREWS NORTON.</p> + +<p class="st">Vols. II. & III.<br /> +<small>BEING THE COMPLETION OF THE WORK.</small></p> + +<p class="st">8vo.</p> + +</div> + +<div class="works"> + +<p>III.</p> + +<p class="spacious">THE SPANISH STUDENT.</p> + +<p class="st">A DRAMA: IN THREE ACTS.</p> + +<p class="xst space-above">BY</p> + +<p class="st">HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW,<br /> +<span class="xst">AUTHOR OF "VOICES OF THE NIGHT," "HYPERION," ETC.</span></p> + +<p class="st">l6mo.</p> +</div> + +<hr class="full" /> + +<div>*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 44398 ***</div> +</body> +</html> |