Contrasted Songs
BY
MARIAN LONGFELLOW
BOSTON RICHARD G. BADGER The Gorham Press 1905
Copyright 1904 by Marian Longfellow
All Rights Reserved
Printed at THE GORHAM PRESS Boston, U. S. A.
In Perpetual and Loving Remembrance of M. P. F. Who Has Gone Before, and of E. T. L. Who Still Walks with Me, These Songs are dedicated by The Author
PREFACE
In presenting to the public the within collection, some of which were published originally under the nom-de-plume of "Miriam Lester," I have had to go into the highways and byways to gather the children who had strayed into various paths.
Some have been easily found in books of which they were a part, and I desire to thank the editors of "The Library of Religious Poetry," the family of the late Charles Henshaw Dana, of Worcester, Mass., the Boston "Herald," and others for permission to use such.
The task of gathering the children who made their debut within the columns of the Boston "Transcript," the Eastport "Sentinel," the Washington "Post," the "Saturday Gazette" (Boston), and other journals, has been no light task, and some are still straying beyond my ken.
Among these "Contrasted Songs" I trust that the reader will find something to which the heart may respond.
Faithfully yours, Marian Longfellow. Washington, D. C.
SONGS OF THE SEA
11
A SONG OF THE SEA
12
THE SPIRIT OF THE WATER
13
WITH THE TIDE
14
GRAND MANAN
(1881)
15
LEEWARD
SONGS OF THE FIELDS AND WOODS
19
A SONG IN THE EVENING
21
MEADOW BLOOM
22
A SONG OF THE AUTUMN
23
THE IRIS
25
LIEBESLIEDER
26
27
LIEBESLIED
I LONGING
29
II ON THE SEA
(The Answer)
30
THE RED ROSE
THE MAIDEN AND THE BOAT
32
MY SHIP
33
AN OLD SONG
34
TO MISS H., WEARING A ROSE
(May 13, 1890)
35
THE CLOUD
36
SEHNSUCHT!
38
SELECTION
39
LEGENDARY SONGS
40
41
THE MANSION THAT ENDURED
(This legend, in prose, I found in a French collection, and have believed it would be acceptable rendered into verse. M. L.)
THE CHIMES
48
FRANCIS COSTER'S STORY
(I came across this legend, in prose, some time ago, to which was prefixed this note: "The following exquisite story was written by Anthony of Sienna, and translated from the Dominican records by Francis Coster, a famous preacher of the sixteenth century. Mr. Gould, author of Mysteries of the Middle Ages, has succeeded in rendering it into current English."
In rendering the story into verse, I have kept to the text as closely as possible. M. L.)
51
SONGS ON THE HEIGHTS
52
53
THE OLD CEMETERY
54
LINES ON IMMORTALITY
A DREAM
56
ON EMPYREAN HEIGHTS
(Read at Hardman Hall, New York City, before the International League of Press Clubs, June 3, 1897.)
59
SONGS OF REMEMBRANCE
60
61
A LITTLE WHILE
(March 14, 1889.)
62
REVERIE
64
HEIMWEH
65
GRAND MANAN
(1886)
66
MADELEINE
(1891)
67
WHERE THE SHADOWS PLAY
68
A VALENTINE
69
THE MARTINS
NEVER AGAIN
72
HADST THOU DENIED
73
WHY SHOULD I REMEMBER IF YOU FORGET?
74
TO H. N. T.
(Jan. 28, 1885.)
75
SONGS OF CONSOLATION
76
77
AND THEY SHALL RISE AGAIN
78
MINE ONWARD PATH
79
AFTER MANY DAYS
80
SOME DAY
81
LAKE WINNEPESEOGEE
(TWILIGHT)
82
JESUS OF NAZARETH PASSETH BY
83
NEARER MY REST
SO MANY YEARS
SORROW
UNKNOWN
87
SONGS OF PATRIOTISM
88
89
OUR BIRTHRIGHT
LEXINGTON
(April 19, 1775.)
O LAND OF OUR BIRTH
OUR FLAG
(Dedicated to the Children of America)
94
THE NATIONAL FLOWER
(The Golden Rod)
95
IN MEMORIAM
96
97
ROLL MUFFLED DRUMS
(Arlington, May 30, 1902.)
98
THE DEAD MUSICIAN
(Julius Eichberg)
100
THE NATION WEEPS
In Memoriam
(Wm. McKinley, Sept. 14, 1901.)
IN MEMORIAM
(Charles Henshaw Dana.)
—Celia Thaxter.
102
IN MEMORIAM
(M. J. E., Obitt, June 19, 1874.)
103
CONSOLATION
(Into Light. Dec. 4, 1903, 4:50 A. M.)
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