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For Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, that’s his very first published poem, “The Battle of Lovell’s Pond,” which recognizes fallen soldiers whose “names are engraven on honor’s bright crest.” ...
The Click dance group’s “Trembled to Walk On” takes its name from an 1841 poem about a real body in armor found buried in ...
My grandfather — who used to make me practice sitting still — has always been better at living in the present moment than I ...
A lot of us learned about the revolutionary sprint through Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s iconic poem that begins, “Listen, my children, and you shall hear, of the midnight ride of Paul Revere.” ...
With a strong, clear voice, Libby Bischof read the opening lines of the poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that solidified Paul Revere’s place in U.S. history. “Listen, my children ...
Each February in Brunswick, Longfellow Days creates events to honor the legacy of Maine poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ... New this year is an Ekphrastic Poetry Workshop by David Sloan.
Even in his later years, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow did not mind ... Today, only people of a certain age can recall the Longfellow poetry they memorized as schoolchildren, perhaps passages from ...
Members of this Class of 1825, Nathaniel Hawthorne and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow created some of the ... Through the poetic truths they expressed in poetry and prose, Longfellow and Hawthorne ...