Wadsworth

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    Like a French poem is life; being only perfect in structure
    When with the masculine rhymes mingled the feminine are.
    —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)

    In the long, sleepless watches of the night,
    A gentle face—the face of one long dead—
    Looks at me from the wall,
    —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)

    I heard the trailing garments of the Night
    Sweep through her marble halls!
    I saw her sable skirts all fringed with light
    From the celestial walls!
    —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1809–1882)