The Poets and Poetry of Europe (1845) interfered with his writing,

she helped by reading aloud for him, copying out his poem drafts, and
handling much of his correspondence. Fanny is also credited with
directly inspiring two poems that emerged from their wedding trip—
“The Arsenal at Springfield,” the peace poem she requested, and “The
Old Clock on the Stairs“; both poems appeared in The Belfry of
Bruges and Other Poems (1845; copyright 1846). Most poems in the
book had appeared earlier in Graham’s Magazine, which had paid
both Longfellow and Bryant the unprecedented sum of $50 a poem,
and had reappeared in an illustrated edition of Longfellow’s poems
published earlier that year by Carey and Hart in Philadelphia. As the
title suggests, the collection included many poems influenced by his
1842 travels in northern Europe; among them were the title poem,
“Nuremberg,” “The Norman Baron,” “Walter Von Der Vogelweid,”
and several translations.