Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Longfellow, among the most popular American poets of the 19th century, also translated Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy for an American audience. He was a professor at Bowdoin College and Harvard College, and he published several collections of poetry, including Voices of the Night and Tales of a Wayside Inn.
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The Cumberland
A poem commemorating a mighty Union ship done in by the Virginia, a rebel “ironclad”
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AP Paul Revere’s Ride
The famous Revolutionary War poem that’s really about slavery
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The Cumberland
Longfellow's poetic tribute to a once mighty, now obsolete ship—done in by Confederate "ironclads"
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Michael Angelo: Part Third
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Michael Angelo: Part Second
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Michael Angelo
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The Bells of San Blas
A poem
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Decoration Day
A poem
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Mad River, in the White Mountains
A poem
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The Poets and His Songs
A poem
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Helen of Tyre
A poem
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The Burial of the Poet
A poem
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The Chamber Over the Gate
A poem
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The White Czar
A poem
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Another Rosary of Sonnets
Three poems
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Song
A poem
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The Leap of Roushan Beg
A poem
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Wapentake
A poem for Alfred Tennyson
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Castles in Spain
A poem
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A Ballad of the French Fleet
A poem
