Book is [i] + xxi + 689 pp. A 1-volume reprint of The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1886, vols. 1-6 of the Riverside edition of The Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow [14 vols.]), without its interior illustrations, but adding Scudder's "Biographical Sketch" (xiii-xxi). With this 1893 publication, the entirety of Longfellow's poetry (including "Beowulf's Expedition to Heort"), other than his translation of Dante, became available in a single volume of manageable size.

"Beowulf's Expedition to Heort" begins:

Thus then, much care-worn,
The son of Healfden
Sorrowed evermore,
Nor might the prudent hero
His woes avert.
The war was too hard,
Too loath and longsome,
That on the people came,
Dire wrath and grim,
Of night-woes the worst.
This from home heard
Higelac's Thane,
Good among the Goths,
Grendel's deeds. (618-19)

And ends:

["]Now would I fain
Your origin know,
Ere ye forth
As false spies
Into the Land of the Danes
Farther fare.
Now, ye dwellers afar-off!
Ye sailors of the sea!
Listen to my
One-fold thought.
Quickest is best
To make known
Whence your coming may be." (619-20)

Not in Fry, MO1, GR, or MO2.

BAM.