The Courtship of Miles Standish and Other Poems
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
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Lake Huntington, New York, United States
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About This Item
215 pp. Quarter leather with gilt-lettered spine, marbled boards and endpapers. Leather scuffed at extremities, but still pleasant. Title page gives 1859 date, verso of TP, 1858. Ads probably removed for binding.
O my songs! whose winsome measures
Filled my heart with secret rapture!
Children of my golden leisures!
Must even your delights and pleasures
Fade and perish with the capture?
Fair they seemed, those songs sonorous,
When they came to me unbidden;
Voices single, and in chorus,
Like the wild birds singing o'er us
In the dark of branches hidden.
Disenchantment! Disillusion!
Must each noble aspiration
Come at last to this conclusion,
Jarring discord, wild confusion,
Lassitude, renunciation?
Not with steeper fall nor faster,
From the sun's serene dominions,
Not through brighter realms nor vaster,
In swift ruin and disaster,
Icarus fell with shattered pinions!
Sweet Pandora! dear Pandora!
Why did mighty Jove create thee
Coy as Thetis, fair as Flora,
Beautiful as young Aurora,
If to win thee is to hate thee?
--Epimetheus, or the Poet's Afterthought
O my songs! whose winsome measures
Filled my heart with secret rapture!
Children of my golden leisures!
Must even your delights and pleasures
Fade and perish with the capture?
Fair they seemed, those songs sonorous,
When they came to me unbidden;
Voices single, and in chorus,
Like the wild birds singing o'er us
In the dark of branches hidden.
Disenchantment! Disillusion!
Must each noble aspiration
Come at last to this conclusion,
Jarring discord, wild confusion,
Lassitude, renunciation?
Not with steeper fall nor faster,
From the sun's serene dominions,
Not through brighter realms nor vaster,
In swift ruin and disaster,
Icarus fell with shattered pinions!
Sweet Pandora! dear Pandora!
Why did mighty Jove create thee
Coy as Thetis, fair as Flora,
Beautiful as young Aurora,
If to win thee is to hate thee?
--Epimetheus, or the Poet's Afterthought
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- Bookseller
- Veery Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 104050
- Title
- The Courtship of Miles Standish and Other Poems
- Author
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Format/Binding
- Quarter leather with gilt-lettered spine, marbled boards and endpapers
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Ticknor and Fields
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1858
- Pages
- 215
- Size
- 7 x 4.5 inches
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Keywords
- Pilgrims, Arden, poetry
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
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