| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882). Complete Poetical Works. 1893. | | | | In the Harbor | | Memories |
| | | OFT I remember those whom I have known | |
| In other days, to whom my heart was led | |
| As by a magnet, and who are not dead, | |
| But absent, and their memories overgrown | |
| With other thoughts and troubles of my own, | 5 |
| As graves with grasses are, and at their head | |
| The stone with moss and lichens so o’erspread, | |
| Nothing is legible but the name alone. | |
| And is it so with them? After long years, | |
| Do they remember me in the same way, | 10 |
| And is the memory pleasant as to me? | |
| I fear to ask; yet wherefore are my fears? | |
| Pleasures, like flowers, may wither and decay, | |
| And yet the root perennial may be. | | | | |
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