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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

1807–1882

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) was an American poet and Harvard professor, and by far the most popular and widely read American poet of the 19th century, both at home and in Europe.

A leading figure among the ‘Fireside Poets’, he wrote narrative epics such as ‘The Song of Hiawatha’ and ‘Paul Revere’s Ride’ alongside shorter lyrics on nature, faith, and everyday life, in verse prized for its clarity and musicality.

Major Works (3)

  1. The Courtship of Miles Standish — Narrative poem, 1858
  2. Evangeline — Narrative poem, 1847
  3. The Song of Hiawatha — Epic poem, 1855

Poems (424)

  1. Prelude
  2. Hymn To The Night
  3. The Reaper And The Flowers
  4. The Light Of Stars
  5. Footsteps Of Angels
  6. Flowers
  7. The Beleaguered City
  8. Midnight Mass For The Dying Year
  9. An April Day
  10. Autumn (1)
  11. Woods In Winter
  12. At The Consecration Of Pulaski's Banner
  13. Sunrise On The Hills
  14. The Spirit Of Poetry
  15. Burial Of The Minnisink
  16. L'Envoi
  17. The Skeleton In Armor
  18. The Wreck Of The Hesperus
  19. The Village Blacksmith
  20. Endymion
  21. It Is Not Always May
  22. The Rainy Day
  23. God's-Acre
  24. To The River Charles
  25. Blind Bartimeus
  26. The Goblet Of Life
  27. Maidenhood
  28. Excelsior
  29. The Slave's Dream
  30. That Shall Not Be Taken Away
  31. The Slave In The Dismal Swamp
  32. The Slave Singing At Midnight
  33. The Witnesses
  34. The Quadroon Girl
  35. The Warning
  36. Carillon
  37. The Belfry Of Bruges
  38. A Gleam Of Sunshine
  39. The Arsenal At Springfield
  40. Nuremberg
  41. Rain In Summer
  42. To A Child
  43. The Occultation Of Orion
  44. The Bridge
  45. To The Driving Cloud
  46. The Day Is Done
  47. Afternoon In February
  48. To An Old Danish Song-Book
  49. Walter Von Der Vogelweid
  50. Inscription For An Antique Pitcher
  51. The Old Clock On The Stairs
  52. The Arrow And The Song
  53. Mezzo Cammin
  54. The Evening Star
  55. Autumn (2)
  56. Dante
  57. Curfew
  58. Dedication (1)
  59. The Building Of The Ship
  60. Seaweed
  61. Chrysaor
  62. The Secret Of The Sea
  63. Twilight
  64. Sir Humphrey Gilbert
  65. The Lighthouse
  66. Devereux Farm, Near Marblehead
  67. Resignation
  68. The Builders
  69. Sand Of The Desert In An Hour-Glass
  70. The Open Window
  71. King Witlaf's Drinking-Horn
  72. Gaspar Becerra
  73. Pegasus In Pound
  74. Tegnér's Drapa
  75. Sonnet
  76. The Singers
  77. Suspiria
  78. For My Brother's Ordination
  79. Birds Of Passage
  80. Or The Poet's Forethought
  81. Or The Poet's Afterthought
  82. The Phantom Ship
  83. The Warden Of The Cinque Ports
  84. Haunted Houses
  85. In The Churchyard At Cambridge
  86. The Emperor's Bird's-Nest
  87. The Two Angels
  88. Daylight And Moonlight
  89. The Jewish Cemetery At Newport
  90. Oliver Basselin
  91. Victor Galbraith
  92. My Lost Youth
  93. The Ropewalk
  94. The Golden Mile-Stone
  95. Catawba Wine
  96. Santa Filomena
  97. A Leaf From King Alfred's Orosius
  98. Daybreak
  99. May 28, 1857
  100. Children
  101. Sandalphon
  102. The Children's Hour
  103. Enceladus
  104. The Cumberland
  105. Snow-Flakes
  106. A Day Of Sunshine
  107. Something Left Undone
  108. Weariness
  109. Fata Morgana
  110. The Haunted Chamber
  111. The Meeting
  112. Vox Populi
  113. The Castle-Builder
  114. Changed
  115. The Challenge
  116. The Brook And The Wave
  117. Aftermath
  118. The Hanging Of The Crane
  119. Morituri Salutamus
  120. Three Friends Of Mine
  121. Chaucer
  122. Shakespeare
  123. Milton
  124. Keats
  125. The Galaxy
  126. The Sound Of The Sea
  127. A Summer Day By The Sea
  128. The Tides
  129. A Shadow
  130. A Nameless Grave
  131. Sleep
  132. The Old Bridge At Florence
  133. Il Ponte Vecchio Di Firenze
  134. Nature
  135. In The Churchyard At Tarrytown
  136. Eliot's Oak
  137. The Descent Of The Muses
  138. Venice
  139. The Poets
  140. Written On Revisiting Brunswick In The Summer Of 1875
  141. The Harvest Moon
  142. To The River Rhone
  143. To John Greenleaf Whittier
  144. The Two Rivers
  145. Boston
  146. Moods
  147. Woodstock Park
  148. A Photograph
  149. Holidays
  150. To Alfred Tennyson
  151. The Cross Of Snow
  152. Charles Sumner
  153. Travels By The Fireside
  154. Lake Of Como
  155. Terra Di Lavoro
  156. Amalfi
  157. Belisarius
  158. Songo River
  159. Keramos
  160. The Herons Of Elmwood
  161. A Dutch Picture
  162. Castles In Spain
  163. Vittoria Colonna
  164. The Revenge Of Rain-In-The-Face
  165. To The River Yvette
  166. The Emperor's Glove
  167. October, 1746
  168. The Leap Of Roushan Beg
  169. Haroun Al Raschid
  170. King Trisanku
  171. A Wraith In The Mist
  172. The Three Kings
  173. Song
  174. The White Czar
  175. Delia
  176. Dedication (2)
  177. Bayard Taylor
  178. The Chamber Over The Gate
  179. To The Children Of Cambridge
  180. Jugurtha
  181. The Iron Pen
  182. Robert Burns
  183. Helen Of Tyre
  184. Elegiac
  185. The Sifting Of Peter
  186. Maiden And Weathercock
  187. The Windmill
  188. The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls
  189. My Cathedral
  190. Richard Henry Dana
  191. Night
  192. The Poet And His Songs
  193. Becalmed
  194. January
  195. February
  196. March
  197. April
  198. May
  199. June
  200. July
  201. August
  202. September
  203. October
  204. November
  205. December
  206. Autumn Within
  207. The Four Lakes Of Madison
  208. Victor And Vanquished
  209. Moonlight
  210. [A Fragment.]
  211. Sundown
  212. Chimes
  213. Four By The Clock
  214. Auf Wiedersehen
  215. Elegiac Verse
  216. The City And The Sea
  217. Memories
  218. Hermes Trismegistus
  219. To The Avon
  220. President Garfield
  221. My Books
  222. In The White Mountains
  223. Possibilities
  224. Decoration Day
  225. A Fragment
  226. Inscription On The Shanklin Fountain
  227. The Bells Of San Blas
  228. Paul Revere's Ride
  229. The Fire of Driftwood
  230. A Psalm of Life
  231. To William E. Channing
  232. The Norman Baron
  233. The Ladder of St. Augustine
  234. The Wayside Inn: Prelude
  235. The Falcon of Ser Federigo
  236. The Legend of Rabbi Ben Levi
  237. King Robert of Sicily
  238. The Saga of King Olaf I: The Challenge of Thor
  239. The Saga of King Olaf II: King Olaf’s Return
  240. The Saga of King Olaf III: Thora of Rimol
  241. The Saga of King Olaf IV: Queen Sigrid the Haughty
  242. The Saga of King Olaf V: The Skerry of Shrieks
  243. The Saga of King Olaf VI: The Wraith of Odin
  244. The Saga of King Olaf VII: Iron-Beard
  245. The Saga of King Olaf VIII: Gudrun
  246. The Saga of King Olaf IX: Thangbrand the Priest
  247. The Saga of King Olaf X: Raud the Strong
  248. The Saga of King Olaf XI: Bishop Sigurd at Salten Fiord
  249. The Saga of King Olaf XII: King Olaf’s Christmas
  250. The Saga of King Olaf XIII: The Building of the Long Serpent
  251. The Saga of King Olaf XIV: The Crew of the Long Serpent
  252. The Saga of King Olaf XV: A Little Bird in the Air
  253. The Saga of King Olaf XVI: Queen Thyri and the Angelica Stalks
  254. The Saga of King Olaf XVII: King Svend of the Forked Beard
  255. The Saga of King Olaf XVIII: King Olaf and Earl Sigvald
  256. The Saga of King Olaf XIX: King Olaf’s War-Horns
  257. The Saga of King Olaf XX: Einar Tamberskelver
  258. The Saga of King Olaf XXI: King Olaf’s Death-drink
  259. The Saga of King Olaf XXII: The Nun of Nidaros
  260. Torquemada
  261. The Birds of Killingworth
  262. The Wayside Inn: Prelude (Part Second)
  263. The Bell of Atri
  264. Kambalu
  265. The Cobbler of Hagenau
  266. The Ballad of Carmilhan
  267. Lady Wentworth
  268. The Legend Beautiful
  269. The Baron of St. Castine
  270. The Wayside Inn: Prelude (Part Third)
  271. Azrael
  272. Charlemagne
  273. Emma and Eginhard
  274. Elizabeth
  275. The Monk of Casal-Maggiore
  276. Scanderbeg
  277. The Mother's Ghost
  278. The Rhyme of Sir Christopher
  279. Flower-de-Luce
  280. Palingenesis
  281. The Bridge of Cloud
  282. Hawthorne
  283. Christmas Bells
  284. The Wind over the Chimney
  285. The Bells of Lynn
  286. Killed at the Ford
  287. Giotto's Tower
  288. To-morrow
  289. Divina Commedia
  290. Noël
  291. St. John's, Cambridge
  292. The Broken Oar
  293. The Sermon of St. Francis
  294. Old St. David's at Radnor
  295. Loss and Gain
  296. “Neglected record of a mind neglected”
  297. “O Faithful, indefatigable tides”
  298. “Soft through the silent air”
  299. “So from the bosom of darkness”
  300. The War-Token
  301. The Expedition to Wessagusset
  302. Prologue (from John Endicott)
  303. Prologue (from Giles Corey of the Salem Farms)
  304. The Battle of Lovell's Pond
  305. The Embarkation
  306. The Republic
  307. The Wayside Inn: Interlude after The Landlord’s Tale (Part First)
  308. The Wayside Inn: Interlude after The Student’s Tale (Part First)
  309. The Wayside Inn: Interlude after The Spanish Jew’s Tale (Part First)
  310. The Wayside Inn: Interlude after The Sicilian’s Tale (Part First)
  311. The Wayside Inn: Interlude after The Musician’s Tale (Part First)
  312. The Wayside Inn: Interlude after The Theologian’s Tale (Part First)
  313. The Wayside Inn: Finale (Part First)
  314. The Wayside Inn: Interlude after The Sicilian’s Tale (Part Second)
  315. The Wayside Inn: Interlude after The Spanish Jew’s Tale (Part Second)
  316. The Wayside Inn: Interlude after The Student’s Tale (Part Second)
  317. The Wayside Inn: Interlude after The Musician’s Tale (Part Second)
  318. The Wayside Inn: Interlude after The Poet’s Tale (Part Second)
  319. The Wayside Inn: Interlude after The Theologian’s Tale (Part Second)
  320. The Wayside Inn: Finale (Part Second)
  321. The Wayside Inn: Interlude after The Spanish Jew’s Tale (Part Third)
  322. The Wayside Inn: Interlude after The Poet’s Tale (Part Third)
  323. The Wayside Inn: Interlude after The Student’s Tale (Part Third)
  324. The Wayside Inn: Interlude after The Theologian’s Tale (Part Third)
  325. The Wayside Inn: Interlude after The Sicilian’s Tale (Part Third)
  326. The Wayside Inn: Interlude after The Spanish Jew’s Second Tale (Part Third)
  327. The Wayside Inn: Interlude after The Musician’s Tale (Part Third)
  328. The Wayside Inn: Finale (Part Third)
  329. Translations: Prelude
  330. Coplas de Manrique
  331. The Good Shepherd
  332. Translations: To-Morrow
  333. The Native Land
  334. The Image of God
  335. The Brook
  336. Rio Verde, Rio Verde
  337. Don Nuno, Count of Lara
  338. The Peasant Leaves His Plough Afield
  339. Vida de San Millan
  340. San Miguel, the Convent
  341. Song: She is a maid of artless grace
  342. Santa Teresa's Book-Mark
  343. Eyes So Tristful, Eyes So Tristful
  344. Some Day, Some Day
  345. Come, O Death, So Silent Flying
  346. Glove of Black in White Hand Bare
  347. Frithiof's Saga: Frithiof's Homestead
  348. Frithiof's Saga: A Sledge-Ride on the Ice
  349. Frithiof's Saga: Frithiof's Temptation
  350. Frithiof's Saga: Frithiof's Farewell
  351. The Children of the Lord's Supper
  352. King Christian
  353. The Elected Knight
  354. Childhood
  355. The Happiest Land
  356. The Wave
  357. The Dead
  358. The Bird and the Ship
  359. Whither?
  360. Beware!
  361. Song of the Bell
  362. The Castle by the Sea
  363. The Black Knight
  364. Song of the Silent Land
  365. The Luck of Edenhall
  366. The Two Locks of Hair
  367. The Hemlock Tree
  368. Annie of Tharaw
  369. The Statue Over the Cathedral Door
  370. The Legend of the Crossbill
  371. The Sea Hath Its Pearls
  372. Poetic Aphorisms: Money
  373. Poetic Aphorisms: The Best Medicines
  374. Poetic Aphorisms: Sin
  375. Poetic Aphorisms: Poverty and Blindness
  376. Poetic Aphorisms: Law of Life
  377. Poetic Aphorisms: Creeds
  378. Poetic Aphorisms: The Restless Heart
  379. Poetic Aphorisms: Christian Love
  380. Poetic Aphorisms: Art and Tact
  381. Poetic Aphorisms: Retribution
  382. Poetic Aphorisms: Truth
  383. Poetic Aphorisms: Rhymes
  384. Silent Love
  385. Blessed Are the Dead
  386. Remorse
  387. Forsaken
  388. Allah
  389. The Grave
  390. Beowulf's Expedition to Heort
  391. The Soul's Complaint Against the Body
  392. Song: Hark! hark!
  393. Song: And whither goest thou, gentle sigh
  394. The Return of Spring
  395. Spring
  396. The Child Asleep
  397. Death of Archbishop Turpin
  398. The Blind Girl of Castel Cuille
  399. A Christmas Carol
  400. Consolation
  401. To Cardinal Richelieu
  402. The Angel and the Child
  403. On the Terrace of the Aigalades
  404. To My Brooklet
  405. Barréges
  406. Will Ever the Dear Days Come Back Again?
  407. At La Chaudeau
  408. A Quiet Life
  409. The Wine of Jurançon
  410. Friar Lubin
  411. Rondel
  412. My Secret
  413. To Italy
  414. Michael Angelo: The Artist
  415. Michael Angelo: Fire
  416. Michael Angelo: Youth and Age
  417. Michael Angelo: Old Age
  418. Michael Angelo: To Vittoria Colonna (1)
  419. Michael Angelo: To Vittoria Colonna (2)
  420. Michael Angelo: Dante
  421. Michael Angelo: Canzone
  422. The Nature of Love
  423. Song: If thou art sleeping, maiden
  424. Christus: The Golden Legend: Evening Song

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