Book excerpt: A Keramos and Other Poems is a collection of poems (originally published in 1878) from Longfellow plus his translations of Virgil, Ovid, and others, including seven sonnets and one canzone by Michelangelo. Included among the poems in this collection are "The Leap of the Roushan Beg",the famous "Haroun Al Raschid" and the sequence "Birds of Passage." "Art is the child of nature," wrote the American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow in his Keramos and Other Poems.