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Dec 21, 2014 · Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was alarmed when informed by the army surgeon that his son’s wound “was very serious” and that “paralysis might ensue.” Three surgeons gave a more favorable report that evening, suggesting a recovery that would require him to be “long in healing,” at least six months.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow lived in one of two houses for most of his life: the Wadsworth-Longfellow House on Congress Street in Portland, Maine, where he grew up; and Craigie House, the 1759 colonial mansion in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he lived from 1837 until his death in 1882. Both houses reflect the family's ties to the American ...
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Některá data mohou pocházet z datové položky. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ( 27. února 1807, Portland, Maine, USA – 24. března 1882, Cambridge, Massachusetts) byl americký básník, mezi jehož díla patří Paul Revere's Ride, A Psalm of Life, The Song of Hiawatha a Evangeline. Je také autorem prvního ...
By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Between the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day's occupations, That is known as the Children's Hour. I hear in the chamber above me. The patter of little feet, The sound of a door that is opened, And voices soft and sweet.
A Family Setting. In 1784 Adjutant General Peleg Wadsworth, maternal grandfather of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, purchased a lot of roughly one-and-one-half acres in Portland. Narrow but deep, it ran from Back Street (now Congress) north one-half mile to Back Cove. Three generations of the family lived in the house and kept a garden.
Henry was the son of Stephen Longfellow and Zilpah Wadsworth Longfellow. He was born February 27, 1807, in Portland, Maine. Portland was a seaport, and this gave its citizens a breadth of view lacking in the more insular New England towns. The variety of people and the activity of the harbors stirred the mind of the boy and gave him a curiosity ...
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