Franklin Library: HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW: POEMS: TALE OF ARCADIE: EVANGELINE

Description: Franklin Library leather edition of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Poems," a Limited edition, Illustrated by David Frampton, one of the 100 MASTERPIECES OF AMERICAN LITERATURE series, published in 1984. Bound in brown leather, the book has matching French moire silk end leaves, acid free-paper, Symth-sewn binding, a satin book marker, hubbed spine, gold gilding on three edges---in Near FINE condition. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who lived from 1807-1882, was born in Portland, Maine, educated at Bowdoin College, and a longtime professor at Harvard. This volume includes his EVAGELINE: A TALE OF ARCADIE, THE SONG OF HIAWATHA, THE COURTSHIP OF MILES STANDISH, THE BUILDING OF THE SHIP and FROM MY ARM CHAIR. Favorite poems include: "Paul Revere's Ride," that begins, "Listen my children and you shall hear/ Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere. . ." and "The Arsenal at Springfield," "The Wreck of the Hesperus," "John Alden," "The Sailing of the Mayflower," "Priscilla," "The Village Blacksmith" that begins, "Under a spreading chestnut-tree/The village smithy stands;/ The smith, a mighty man is he,/ With large and sinewy hands;/ And the muscles of his brawny arms/ Are strong as iron bands, . . / Toiling,---rejoicing--sorrowing,/ Onward through life he goes;/ Each morning sees some task begin,/Each evening sees it close;/ Something attempted, something done,/ Has earned a night's repose." 345 pages. I offer Combined shipping.

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