Birds of Passage (Flight The First & Flight The Second)

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Title:     Birds of Passage (Flight The First & Flight The Second)
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Table of Content

FLIGHT THE FIRST
1. Birds of Passage
2. Prometheus, or the Poet's Forethought
3. Epimetheus, or the Poet's Afterthought
4. The Ladder of St. Augustine
5. The Phantom Ship
6. The Warden of the Cinque Ports
7. Haunted Houses
8. In the Churchyard at Cambridge
9. The Emperor's Bird's-Nest
10. The Two Angels
11. Daylight and Moonlight
12. The Jewish Cemetery at Newport
13. Oliver Basselin
14. Victor Galbraith
15. My Lost Youth
16. The Ropewalk
17. The Golden Mile-Stone
18. Catawba Wine
19. Santa Filomena
20. The Discoverer of the North Cape
21. Daybreak
22. The Fiftieth Birthday of Agassiz
23. Children
24. Sandalphon

FLIGHT THE SECOND
1. The Children's Hour
2. Enceladus
3. The Cumberland
4. Snow-Flakes
5. A Day of Sunshine
6. Something left Undone
7. Weariness

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Name: Lydia Goodman _____ [Date: 6/04/08]
Title: Retired sixth grade teacher
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Review/comment: We were recently visiting Mystic Seaport, the Museum of America and the Sea, in Mystic, CT. There were many students there on field trips. Some came running into the rope making building while we were reading some of the plaques that explained rope making in the past. They did not stay long enough to answer this question that the teacher had given them, "Who wrote a poem about rope making?" But they left me--a retired sixth grade teacher--determined to find the answer. Finally at the last plaque there was an excerpt from this beautiful poem by Longfellow. I loved what I read and had to look up and read the entire poem. It was especially meaningful having just seen in detail how the ropes were made. I'm left sad that the students were not patient enough or interested enough to spend some more time to learn about the past and to read from this beautiful poem. Hopefully, the teachers have shared it with them in the classroom. I am inspired to read more of the classics. I would highly recommend a trip to Mystic. There is much to see and much to do.