Lonely Window

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A man walks in the snow carrying a lantern along a narrow street

Night after night, when the world was asleep, as the watchman repeated
Loud, through the gusty streets, that all was well in the city,
High at some lonely window he saw the light of her taper.

Artist

Name:: Foster, Myles Birket
Dates:: 1865-1899
Country:: UK

Illustration

Subject:: Buildings & Monuments
Technique:: Wood Engraving
Format:: Portrait (taller)
Source:: The Boston Public Library, the Internet Archive

Book

Title:: Poems (Longfellow)
Author:: Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Publisher:: Boston: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, 1852
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A man walks in the snow carrying a lantern along a narrow street flanked by tall houses with oriel windows.

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