WorkHenry Wadsworth Longfellow

Driving Cloud

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)

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Documented 1845

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  • undatedTo Driving CloudDemonstrated

    “it is from one of the new poems, addressed to Driving Cloud, 'chief of the mighty Omahaws.' Wrapt in thy scarlet blanket I see thee stalk through the city's Narrow and populous streets”

    Papers on Literature and Art

    Substantial multi-line verbatim quotation from Longfellow's 'To Driving Cloud'.

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York1record
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
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Poems. By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow . . .

“Poems. By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow . . .”
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“Wrapt in thy scarlet blanket I see thee stalk through the city’s Narrow and populous streets, as once by the margin of rivers Stalked those birds unknown, that have left us only their foot-prints”

Fuller, Margaret. "Poems. By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow . . ." New-York Daily Tribune, 10 December 1845. · 10 December 1845