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Poems of Nathaniel Parker Willis, with a memoir of the author

Nathaniel Parker Willis · 1891 · Scanned text · Free in the US

70,858 words · about 4 h 58 min to read

Period artwork: Interior of the Bodleian Library, 1845
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Author
Nathaniel Parker Willis
Language
English
Published
1891
Length
70,858 words · about 4 h 58 min
Sections
47 reader sections
Text
Scanned text, read from page scans by OCR; may contain errors
Rights
Public domain in the United States

 

Contents (47)
  1. Front matter about 6 min
  2. Contents about 1 h 48 min
  3. II. Nature, that made the ivy-leaf and lily under 1 min
  4. III. The Lady Jane was daughter of an Earl under 1 min
  5. IV under 1 min
  6. V about 1 min
  7. VII under 1 min
  8. VIII. Pause while you read, Broadway demoiselle ! under 1 min
  9. IX. And yet the bloom upon the fruit is fair ! about 1 min
  10. XI. I know this does not work well, and that ours under 1 min
  11. XII. " Free-born Americans," they must have freedom ! about 1 min
  12. XIV under 1 min
  13. XV. And, with his honours not at all unsteady under 1 min
  14. XVI under 1 min
  15. XVII under 1 min
  16. XVIII. T do not mean to say that generally under 1 min
  17. XIX under 1 min
  18. XX under 1 min
  19. XXI under 1 min
  20. XXII under 1 min
  21. XXIII under 1 min
  22. XXIV under 1 min
  23. XXV. The door was open'd by a Spanish page under 1 min
  24. XXVI under 1 min
  25. XXVII. Beyond a gallery extended, cool under 1 min
  26. XXVIII. It was a small pavilion Kned with pink under 1 min
  27. XXIX under 1 min
  28. XXX under 1 min
  29. XXXI. Her person was dress'd very like her soul under 1 min
  30. XXXII. " My dear ! " the Countess said, (by this time she under 1 min
  31. XXXIII. ''Time has no business in one's house, my dear ! under 1 min
  32. XXXIV. I trust, love, eh 1 Hold there, thou virtuous pin !) under 1 min
  33. XXXV under 1 min
  34. XXXVI. " ^wt fame, dear Countess ! " At the word there flash'd under 1 min
  35. XXXVII under 1 min
  36. XXXVIII. '' Oh, poor the flattery to call it mine under 1 min
  37. XXXIX under 1 min
  38. XL. I need not state the ratiocination under 1 min
  39. XLI. " Well, Countess ! what shall be very premier pas ? under 1 min
  40. XLII under 1 min
  41. XLIII about 1 min
  42. XLV. '' The poet's on the look-out for a scene under 1 min
  43. XLVI under 1 min
  44. XLVII under 1 min
  45. XLVIII. " In his ideas, I mean. (I really am at a under 1 min
  46. XLIX about 15 min
  47. Canto II about 2 h 36 min

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Front matter

Longfellow's Poetical Works.

Author's Complete Copyright Edition. With Illustrations by Sir John Gilbert, R.A.

The Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier.

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