Paul Revere's Ride. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. LISTEN, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five; Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year. He said to his friend, ‘If the British march Of the place and the hour, and the secret dread The children's hour and other poems; Paul Revere's ride and other poems Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882 The Children's hour and other poems:Paul Revere's ride and other poems / 1807-1882. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Abstract. Mode of access: Internet Topics: Readers., American poetry. Publisher: Boston:Houghton Get this from a library! The children's hour and other poems Paul Revere's ride and other poems. [Henry Wadsworth Longfellow] "The Children's Hour" is a poem American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, "The Children's Hour" became one of the poems most frequently taught in American schools. In 1924, In Other Media "The Children's Hour" was set Charles Ives and published as number 74 in his 114 Songs collection. He also devotes several stanzas to Old North itself as the important location of the signal lanterns, which is historically accurate. Along with the number of riders and Paul Revere’s location for the signal lanterns, Longfellow changed a number of other details about the night of April 18, 1775 in his poem Paul Revere’s … His idealistic poetry struck a chord with a young country sharply divided over slavery. Poems such as the narrative Evangeline and “Paul Revere’s Ride” made Longfellow the most popular 19th-century American poet. See More This Poet About the Author:.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in 1807 in Portland, Maine, and he became a professor of modern languages at Harvard. His most famous narrative poems include "The Song of Hiawatha, Paul Revere's Ride", "The Village Blacksmith," "The Wreck of the Hesperus. Find The Children's Hour and Other Poems Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth at Biblio. Uncommonly good collectible and rare books from uncommonly good booksellers. This copy of The Children's Hour And Other Poems; Paul Revere's Ride And Other Poems offered for sale Ergodebooks for $8.55 "Paul Revere's Ride," the best known of the "Tales of a Wayside Inn"(1863), is also intensely national. Then, there is a handful of intensely personal, melancholy poems that deal in very successful ways with those themes not commonly thought of as Longfellow's: sorrow, death, frustration, the pathetic drift of humanity's existence.
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