AMERICAN ROMANTIC POETS AMERICAN ROMANTIC POETS ARTS AMERICAN CULTURE INTRODUCTION AMERICAN ROMANTIC WRITERS SUCH AS EMILY DICKINSON AND HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW VALUED IMAGINATION NATURE AND INDIVIDUAL FEELINGS OVER LOGIC AND REASON IN THE FOLLOWING POEMS DICKINSON AND LONGFELLOW EXPLORE THE LONGINGS OF THE HEART HEART WE WILL FORGET HIM BY EMILY DICKINSON HEART WE WILL FORGET HIM YOU AND I TONIGHT YOU MAY FORGET THE WARMTH HE GAVE I WILL FORGET THE LIGHT WHEN YOU HAVE DONE PRAY TELL ME THAT I MAY STRAIGHT BEGIN HASTE LEST WHILE YOU'RE LAGGING I REMEMBER HIM LEST FOR FEAR THAT THE CROSS OF SNOW BY HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW IN THE LONG SLEEPLESS WATCHES OF THE NIGHT A GENTLE FACE THE FACE OF ONE LONG DEAD LOOKS AT ME FROM THE WALL WHERE ROUND ITS HEAD THE NIGHT LAMP CASTS A HALO OF PALE LIGHT HERE IN THIS ROOM SHE DIED AND SOUL MORE WHITE NEVER THROUGH MARTYRDOM OF FIRE WAS LED TO ITS REPOSE NOR CAN IN BOOKS BE READ THE LEGEND OF A LIFE MORE BENEDIGHT THERE IS A MOUNTAIN IN THE DISTANT WEST THAT SUN DEFYING IN ITS DEEP RAVINES DISPLAYS A CROSS OF SNOW UPON ITS SIDE SUCH IS THE CROSS THAT I WEAR UPON MY BREAST THESE EIGHTEEN YEARS THROUGH ALL MY CHANGING SCENES AND SEASONS CHANGELESS SINCE THE DAY SHE DIED MARTYRDOM TORMENT REPOSE REST BENEDIGHT BLESSED RAVINES VALLEYS FROM HEART WE WILL FORGET HIM FROM THE POEMS OF EMILY DICKINSON EDITED BY RALPH W FRANKLIN COPYRIGHT 1951 1955 1979 1998 BY THE PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE PUBLISHED BY THE BELKNAP PRESS OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS CAMBRIDGE MA REPRINTED BY PERMISSION OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS AND THE TRUSTEES OF AMHERST COLLEGE THE CROSS OF SNOW FROM THE COMPLETE WORKS OF HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW 1886
