That scene appears in his New England Tragedies after two tales of Puritans and witchcraft, John Endicott and Giles Corey.  
He penned a dramatic poem about a sick knight who can only be cured by a maiden sacrificing her life for him, "The Golden Legend."  That poem is collected with a retelling of Christ's life called the Divine Tragedy, which forms his Christus trilogy, along with another duo of poems that ends with a scene of St. John wandering the face on the earth.  That scene appears in his New England Tragedies after two tales of Puritans and witchcraft, John Endicott and Giles Corey.  One of his poems considers "These Hebrews in their graves" in the title locale, and another focuses on the grandson of Nokomis.  FTP, name this American poet of "The Jewish Cemetery at Newport" and The Song of Hiawatha.
He penned a dramatic poem about a sick knight who can only be cured by a maiden sacrificing her life for him, "The Golden Legend."  
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow