Tuesday, March 30, 2010

In The Harbour: Possibilities Comments

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Where are the Poets, unto whom belong
The Olympian heights; whose singing shafts were sent
Straight to the mark, and not from bows half bent,
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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MDINDY 19 June 2020

I came across this poem after reading an NYTimes review of a new book on Longfellow, which prompted me to reread some of his poems in an American poetry anthology that I have. This one struck me because it seems to prophecy Whitman, almost to a T. Anyone?

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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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