A Summer Day by the Sea

Name: Birds of Passage: Flight The Third - A Summer Day by the Sea
Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The sun is set; and in his latest beams
Yon little cloud of ashen gray and gold,
Slowly upon the amber air unrolled,
The falling mantle of the Prophet seems.
From the dim headlands many a lighthouse gleams,
The street-lamps of the ocean; and behold,
O’erhead the banners of the night unfold;
The day hath passed into the land of dreams.
O summer day beside the joyous sea!
O summer day so wonderful and white,
So full of gladness and so full of pain!
Forever and forever shalt thou be
To some the gravestone of a dead delight,
To some the landmark of a new domain.

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Chicago: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "A Summer Day by the Sea," Birds of Passage: Flight The Third, ed. Callaway, Morgan, Jr., 1962- in The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (New York: George E. Wood, 1850), Original Sources, accessed July 15, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=4VB4R8G42D6CJBG.

MLA: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. "A Summer Day by the Sea." Birds of Passage: Flight The Third, edited by Callaway, Morgan, Jr., 1962-, in The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, New York, George E. Wood, 1850, Original Sources. 15 Jul. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=4VB4R8G42D6CJBG.

Harvard: Longfellow, HW, 'A Summer Day by the Sea' in Birds of Passage: Flight The Third, ed. . cited in 1850, The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, George E. Wood, New York. Original Sources, retrieved 15 July 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=4VB4R8G42D6CJBG.