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A Summer Day By The Sea

By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Topics: classic

The sun is set; and in his latest beams         Yon little cloud of ashen gray and gold,         Slowly upon the amber air unrolled,         The falling mantle of the Prophet seems.     From the dim headlands many a lighthouse gleams,         The street-lamps of the ocean; and behold,         O'erhead the banners of the night unfold;         The day hath passed into the land of dreams.     O summer day beside the joyous sea!         O summer day so wonderful and white,         So full of gladness and so full of pain!     Forever and forever shalt thou be         To some the gravestone of a dead delight,         To some the landmark of a new domain.

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About Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) was the most popular American poet of the 19th century. His narrative poems—including "Paul Revere's Ride," "Evangeline," and "The Song of Hiawatha"—made poetry accessible to a mass audience and shaped American cultural identity.

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