Paul Revere’s Ride - Academy of American Poets
So through the night rode Paul Revere; And so through the night went his cry of alarm To every Middlesex village and farm,— A cry of defiance, and not of fear, A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door, And a word that shall echo forevermore! For, borne on the night-wind of the Past, Through all our history, to the last,
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 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 ...
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.
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 envelope with wax when her dress caught fire.
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 Holmes , James Russell Lowell , and William Cullen Bryant are the poets most commonly grouped together under this heading.
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 Longfellow distorted the actual incident and put far too much emphasis on Revere's individual role. But Longfellow was not interested in schomylarly precision; he wanted to ...
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 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 ...
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 eight children. His mother, Zilpah Wadsworth, was the daughter of a Revolutionary War hero.
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.
Poem [Lana Turner has collapsed!] - Academy of American Poets
It is 12:20 in New York a Friday three days after Bastille day, yes it is 1959 and I go get a shoeshine because I will get off the 4:19 in Easthampton at 7:15 and then go straight to dinner and I don't know the people who will feed me I walk up the muggy street beginning to sun and have a hamburger and a malted and buy an ugly NEW WORLD WRITING to see what the …