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Hace 15 horas · Longfellow, Samuel. Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, with Extracts from His Journals and Correspondence. Boston, 1886. This was the first biography of Longfellow, written by his younger brother. Naturally, it is a very positive portrait of the celebrated poet; Samuel Longfellow avoids the complex and contradictory issues of his older brother ...
Hace 1 día · Few poems in American literature are as iconic as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s “Paul Revere’s Ride.” Published in 1861, during the tumultuous period of the Civil War, the poem captures the spirit of the American Revolution and the bravery of a single man who risked his life to warn his countrymen of impending danger.
Hace 4 días · The traveller hastens toward the town, And the tide rises, the tide falls. Darkness settles on roofs and walls, But the sea, the sea in the darkness calls; The little waves, with their soft, white hands, Efface the footprints in the sands, And the tide rises, the tide falls. The morning breaks; the steeds in their stalls.
I love the soft ruffling repetition and rhythm -- which of course echoes the tide, the surf and the sea. Vote. Reply. Award. 2M subscribers in the Poetry community. A place for sharing published poetry. For sharing orignal content, please visit r/OCPoetry.
Hace 5 días · The Wreck Of The Hesperus Poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. It was the schooner Hesperus. That sailed the wintry sea: And the skipper had taken his little daughter, 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. The ope in the month of May.
Hace 5 días · The day is done, and the darkness Falls from the wings of Night, As a feather is wafted downward From an eagle in his flight. I see the lights of the village.
Hace 5 días · A century later, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow turned the story into a best-selling ballad called "Lady Wentworth". It appeared in 1863 in his famous collection "Tales of Wayside Inn" with the equally romanticized ballad about Paul Revere’s famous ride. But there’s a second "Lady Wentworth".
