Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Apr 17, 2024 | theimaginativeconservative.org | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Listen, my children, and you shall hearOf the midnight ride of Paul Revere,On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five:Hardly a man is now aliveWho remembers that famous day and year.

Feb 27, 2024 | theatlantic.com | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Whene’er a noble deed is wrought Whene’er is spoken a noble thought Our hearts, in glad surprise, To higher levels rise. The tidal wave of deeper souls Into our inmost being rolls, And lifts us unawares Out of all meaner cares.

Feb 27, 2024 | poemsancientandmodern.substack.com | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow |Sally Thomas

Today is the birthday of the nineteenth-century American Fireside Poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) — so famous in his lifetime that schoolchildren all over the expanding country celebrated this day as a kind of civic feast. It’s hard for us, maybe, to imagine the extent to which a single literary figure could command the imagination of an entire culture. But Longfellow’s reach was enormous. People recited his verse in their parlors of an evening, or at town socials.

Dec 18, 2023 | bilibili.com | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

BY HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW《生命颂歌》：亨利·沃兹渥斯·朗费罗创作的一首诗歌，表达了对生命的热爱和积极向上的人生态度。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!    And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest,    Was not spoken of the soul.

Dec 14, 2023 | roanoke.com | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

I heard the bells on Christmas day; their old familiar carols playAnd wild and sweet the words repeat, of peace on earth, goodwill to men. As we navigate this frantic season, and as we shake collective heads at collected headlines, I’d like to pause a moment and tell an old Christmas story; one which inspired a popular carol about the triumph of hope. The poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow had every reason to despair in 1863. The nation was divided by Civil War.