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Jan 2, 2018 · 10 Greatest Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. by Satyananda Sarangi. Picking just 10 is a tricky equation when it concerns the works of a poet as prolific as Longfellow.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was one of the most popular and influential American poets of the nineteenth century. Longfellow (1807-82) is best-known for The Song of Hiawatha , and for growing a beard to hide the marks of a family tragedy , but he also wrote many other celebrated poems.
Now that fiction and cinema have all but replaced poetry as storytelling media, the narrative poems that accounted in large measure for Longfellow’s appeal to his contemporary readers are represented in anthologies by only a few short examples, such as “The Wreck of the Hesperus” and “Paul Revere’s Ride”—poems that make Longfellow ...
A Psalm of Life. By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. What The Heart Of The Young Man Said To The Psalmist. Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest!
Paul Revere’s Ride. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 1807 –. 1882. Listen, my children, and you shall hear. Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five: Hardly a man is now alive. Who remembers that famous day and year.
The Village Blacksmith. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 1807 –. 1882. Under a spreading chestnut-tree. The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands, And the muscles of his brawny arms.
The Children's Hour. 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 Wreck of the Hesperus. By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. It was the schooner Hesperus, That sailed the wintry sea; And the skipper had taken his little daughtèr, To bear him company. Blue were her eyes as the fairy-flax, Her cheeks like the dawn of day, And her bosom white as the hawthorn buds,
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator. His original works include the poems " Paul Revere's Ride ", " The Song of Hiawatha ", and " Evangeline ".
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