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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Issue February 2012

The Cumberland

A poem commemorating a mighty Union ship done in by the Virginia, a rebel “ironclad”… More »

Issue February 2012

Paul Revere’s Ride

The famous Revolutionary War poem that’s really about slavery… More »

The Cumberland

Longfellow's poetic tribute to a once mighty, now obsolete ship—done in by Confederate "ironclads"… More »

Killed at the Ford

HE is dead, the beautiful youth, The heart of honor, the tongue of truth,— He, the life and light of us all, Whose voice was blithe as a bugle call, Whom all eyes followed with one consent, The cheer of whose laugh, and whose pleasant word, Hushed all murmurs of discontent. Only last night, as we rode along Down the dark of the mountain gap, To visit the picket-guard at the ford, Little dreaming of any mishap, He was humming the words of some old…… More »

Paul Revere’s Ride

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 By land or sea from the town to-night, Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry-arch Of the North-Church-tower, as a signal-light, — One if by land, and two if by sea; And I on the opposite shore will…… More »

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