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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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Poem TitleFirst LinePublication NamePublication YearWhen the summer fields are mown,Birds of Passage (Flight the Third)1873The day is ending,The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems ...1845Sweet the memory is to meMasque of Pandora and Other Poems (Birds ...1875From the river's plashy bank,United States Literary Gazette1825Some poems immediately spring to mind, such as The Song of Hiawatha, but Longfellow was a prolific poet who wrote a great deal of great poems, not all of which are as well-known. Below, we pick – and discuss – ten of Longfellow’s greatest poems.
Poems such as “ Paul Revere’s Ride ,” Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie (1847), and “ A Psalm of Life ” were mainstays of primary and secondary school curricula, long remembered by generations of readers who studied them as children.
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!
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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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.
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