The Beleaguered City, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I have read, in some old, marvellous tale,
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I have read, in some old, marvellous tale,
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In the market-place of Bruges stands the belfry...
At Atri in Abruzzo, a small town
Of ancient R...
I stood on the bridge at midnight,
As the clo...
"Build me straight, O worthy Master!
Staunch...
On sunny slope and beechen swell,
The shadowe...
Robert of Sicily, brother of Pope Urbane
And ...
Maiden! With the meek, brown eyes,
In whose ...
Listen, my children, and you shall hear
Of ...
Southward with fleet of ice
Sailed the corsair...
Beside the ungathered rice he lay,
His sickle...
There is a quiet spirit in these woods,
That ...
Dear child! How radiant on thy mother's knee,
...
Gloomy and dark art thou, O chief of the might...
Westward the pillars slender
Of Hercules it la...
Far out beyond the furrowed seas they lie,
Th...
The blind bare world cries for the living Sprin...
So long the rain-clouds saddening lay
Across t...
Blow, winds of March, and bring the brighteni...
Buffeted by the world's unequal strife,
And h...
… And bright inside this space, though ...
Enchanting scenes o'er Afric's mystic land
Sin...
Long journeying over Afric's waste,
Fair, fl...
Here in my Northern home I love to muse,
Fair...
It is eight o'clock of night, and the pallid f...