Paul Revere’s Ride - Academy of American Poets
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 …
paul revere - Academy of American Poets
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 …
Haunted Houses by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Poems
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.
American History Poetry - Academy of American Poets
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 …
A Brief Guide to the Fireside Poets - Academy of American Poets
May 11, 2004 · (Most schoolchildren can recite a line or two from “Paul Revere’s Ride” or The Song of Hiawatha.) Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , John Greenleaf Whittier , Oliver Wendell …
Picturing America - Academy of American Poets
Apr 15, 2004 · American poets have always engaged with the ever-changing landscape of their fellow artists. Collected here is a sample of that rich dialogue in which poetry has tweaked, …
Song by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Poems - Academy of …
This poem is in the public domain. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine—then still part of Massachusetts—on February 27, 1807, the second son in a family of …
The Village Blacksmith by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Poems
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.
About Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Academy of American Poets
With the country moving toward civil war, he wrote “Paul Revere’s Ride,” a call for courage in the coming conflict. A few months after the war began in 1861, Frances Longfellow was sealing an …
Poems of the American Revolution - Academy of American Poets
Jul 2, 2008 · In an essay on Longfellow's famous poem "Paul Revere's Ride," the poet and critic Dana Gioia writes: "From the poem's first publication, historians have complained that …