Notes
1] "The collection of poems under this title was published in 1880. The volume bore on the title-page these lines from Horcae (lib. I., Carmen XXX., Ad Apollinem):--
Precor, integrâThe dedication is to his life-long friend, George Washington Greene, who himself dedicated his Life of Nathanael Greene to Mr. Longfellow in words which give a glowing picture of the aspirations of the two in the days of their young manhood." (Editor, p. 234.)
Cum mente, nec turpem senectam
Degere, nec citharâ carentem.
2] Hesperides: mythical garden of trees of golden apples, located in the utmost west of the world.
8] Atlantis: mythical island-civilization lost under the ocean waters and thought to be west of Gibraltar.
10] Orcades: Orkney islands, north of Scotland.
13] Ultima Thule: "farthest Thule," a place in northwest Greenland.
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Original text: The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, with Bibliographical and Critical Notes, Riverside Edition (Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin, 1890), III, 235-36. PS 2250 E90 Robarts Library.
First publication date:
1880
Publication date note: In Ultima Thule
RPO poem editor: Ian Lancashire
RP edition: RPO 1998.
Recent editing: 4:2002/4/6
Composition date:
1880
Rhyme: aabb