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Title: The International library of famous literature, selections from the world's great writers, ancient, mediaeval, and modern with biographical and explanatory notes and critical essays by many eminent writers
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Garnett, Richard, 1835-1906 Vallée, Léon, 1850-1919 Brandl, Alois, 1855-1940 Mitchell, Donald Grant, 1822-1908
Subjects: Literature
Publisher: London : The Standard
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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83G he became professorof modern languages and literature at Harvard, and held the chair for eighteenyears. He died at his home in Cambridge, Mass., March 24, 1882. His chiefvolumes of poetry are: Voices of the Night (1839), Ballads, SpanishStudent, Evangeline, The Golden Legend, The Song of Hiawatha, The Courtship of Miles Standish, Tales of a Wayside Inn. He also wrotein prose : Outre-Mer, and the novels Hyperion and Kavanagh.) Speak ! speak ! thou fearful guestWho, with thy hollow breastStill in rude armor drest, Comest to daunt me!Wrapt not in Eastern balms,But with thy fleshless palmsStretched, as if asking alms, Why dost thou haunt me ? Then, from those cavernous eyesPale flashes seemed to rise.As when the Northern skies Gleam in December;And, like the waters flowUnder Decembers snow,Came a dull voice of woe From the hearts chamber. I was a Viking old!My deeds, though manifold,No Skald in song has told,No Saga taught thee!Take heed, that in thy verseThou dost tlie tale rehearse,
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