The book The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was written by author Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882 Here you can read free online of The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow a good or bad book?
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Vague, phantasmal, and unreal To our thought he seems, Walking in a world ideal, In a land of dreams. Was he one, or many, merging Name and fame in one, Like a stream, to which, converging Many streamlets run?Till, with gathered power proceeding, Ampler sweep it takes, Downward the sweet waters leading From unnumbered lakes. By the Nile I see him wandering, Pausing now and then, On the mystic union pondering Between gods and men;Half believing, wholly feeling, With supreme delight, How the gods..., themselves concealing, Lift men to their height. Or in Thebes, the hundred-gated, In the thoroughfareBreathing, as if consecrated, A diviner air;And amid discordant noises, In the jostling throng, Hearing far, celestial voices Of Olympian song. Who shall call his dreams fallacious? Who has searched or soughtAll the unexplored and spacious Universe of thought?Who, in his own skill confiding, Shall with rule and lineMark the border-land dividing Human and divine? Trismegistus! three times greatest!
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