M A R C H 1 8 7 9 ![]() THE CHAMBER OVER THE GATEby Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | |||||||||||||
In Poetry Pages: "Recollecting Longfellow" A selection of poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow originally published in The Atlantic Monthly. Also by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Santa Filomena (1857) The Children's Hour (1860) Paul Revere's Ride (1861) Canto XXIII, from Three Cantos of Dante's Paradiso (1864) On Translating the Divina Commedia (1864; 1866) Vox Populi (1871) The Leap of Roushan Beg (1878) More poetry from The Atlantic Monthly. |
Is it so far from thee Thou canst no longer see In the Chamber over the Gate That old man desolate, Weeping, and wailing sore For his son, who is no more? O Absalom, my son!
Is it so long ago
There is no far nor near,
From the ages that are past
Somewhere at every hour
He goes forth from the door,
That 't is a common grief
The Atlantic Monthly; March 1879; "The Chamber Over the Gate," by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ; Volume 43, No. 3; pages 368-369. |
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