Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    The Children's Own Longfellow
    The Children's Own Longfellow
    The Children's Own Longfellow
    Ebook106 pages1 hour

    The Children's Own Longfellow

    By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

    4.5/5

    ()

    Read preview
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArchive Classics
    Release dateSep 9, 1908
    The Children's Own Longfellow
    Author

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) was an American poet. Born in Portland, Maine, Longfellow excelled in reading and writing from a young age, becoming fluent in Latin as an adolescent and publishing his first poem at the age of thirteen. In 1822, Longfellow enrolled at Bowdoin College, where he formed a lifelong friendship with Nathaniel Hawthorne and published poems and stories in local magazines and newspapers. Graduating in 1825, Longfellow was offered a position at Bowdoin as a professor of modern languages before embarking on a journey throughout Europe. He returned home in 1829 to begin teaching and working as the college’s librarian. During this time, he began working as a translator of French, Italian, and Spanish textbooks, eventually publishing a translation of Jorge Manrique, a major Castilian poet of the fifteenth century. In 1836, after a period abroad and the death of his wife Mary, Longfellow accepted a professorship at Harvard, where he taught modern languages while writing the poems that would become Voices of the Night (1839), his debut collection. That same year, Longfellow published Hyperion: A Romance, a novel based partly on his travels and the loss of his wife. In 1843, following a prolonged courtship, Longfellow married Fanny Appleton, with whom he would have six children. That decade proved fortuitous for Longfellow’s life and career, which blossomed with the publication of Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie (1847), an epic poem that earned him a reputation as one of America’s leading writers and allowed him to develop the style that would flourish in The Song of Hiawatha (1855). But tragedy would find him once more. In 1861, an accident led to the death of Fanny and plunged Longfellow into a terrible depression. Although unable to write original poetry for several years after her passing, he began work on the first American translation of Dante’s Divine Comedy and increased his public support of abolitionism. Both steeped in tradition and immensely popular, Longfellow’s poetry continues to be read and revered around the world.

    Read more from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

    Related to The Children's Own Longfellow

    Related ebooks

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      The Coleridge Way

      Nov 5, 2021

      The Coleridge Way
      6 min read

    • Article

      Who Killed Taylor Swift?

      Aug 25, 2017

      Who Killed Taylor Swift?
      2 min read

    • Article

      New Chapters Unfolding

      Nov 22, 2022

      When first I saw the vast English house that would become my home, I was overawed. An elegant redbrick Victorian vicarage in Oxford, tucked away next to a lake, with a rambling garden and an ancient willow. We toured the property as part of my husban

      6 min read

    • Article

      The Little Mermaid

      Jan 1, 2020

      The Little Mermaid
      4 min read

    • Article

      Heroic Biography

      Nov 5, 2018

      Andrew Roberts, Churchill: Walking with Destiny, Viking, 1105 pages, $40/£35. ISBN 978–1101980996 Given his publisher’s claim that there have already been more than a thousand biographies of Churchill, not counting hundreds of specialist studies ran

      10 min read

    • Article

      A Northern Farm cradled in Pines

      Jun 23, 2022

      A Northern Farm cradled in Pines
      22 min read

    • Article

      In The Novel ‘Emily’s House,’ The Dickinsons’ Irish Maid Speaks Her Mind

      Oct 27, 2021

      Amy Belding Brown’s historic novel “Emily’s House” sheds light on Emily Dickinson and her family, through the observations of their Irish maid.

      3 min read

    • Article

      'The World Broke In Two': Four Writers, One Transformational Year

      Jul 25, 2017

      Using excerpts from letters and diaries, historian and critic Bill Goldstein follows writers Virginia Woolf, E. M. Forster, D. H. Lawrence and T. S. Eliot through the tumultuous literary year of 1922.

      3 min read

    • Article

      Sanctuary of Beauty

      Aug 10, 2021

      Sanctuary of Beauty
      1 min read

    • Article

      A Year in Reading: Jesse Paddock

      Dec 9, 2020

      I’d gotten what I’d wanted—a room full of books and time enough to read them—but at a cost. The post A Year in Reading: Jesse Paddock appeared first on The Millions.

      6 min read

    • Article

      In Celtic Cross Country

      Oct 17, 2019

      In Celtic Cross Country
      6 min read

    • Article

      Man On A Mission

      Jun 18, 2021

      Man On A Mission
      5 min read

    • Article

      Ocean View

      Jul 7, 2022

      Ocean View
      3 min read

    • Article

      ‘Translation Is An Art’: Why Translators Are Battling For Recognition

      Jul 3, 2023

      They have often been overlooked in the artistic and literary process, but translators have long claimed they have the power to change everything. There are tales of myths being born, societies being forged and cities destroyed with just a slip of the

      3 min read

    • Article

      Madeleine L’Engle’s Early Short Stories Presage ‘A Wrinkle In Time’

      Apr 17, 2020

      A reviewer reflects on reading “The Moment of Tenderness,” a collection of short stories, and then returning to the 1963 novel she loved growing up.

      2 min read

    • Article

      Facts Of Life

      Mar 21, 2021

      Facts Of Life
      2 min read

    • Article

      Messiah

      Nov 24, 2021

      Messiah
      2 min read

    • Article

      Turning Back Time

      Jul 7, 2022

      Turning Back Time
      4 min read

    • Article

      “They Decided That God Must Be Leading Them To North America”

      Dec 27, 2019

      Launched in 1620, the Mayflower voyage – which carried the first English Puritans to North America – had a long gestation period in England. Stephen Tomkins’ new book explores the Protestant separatist movement that eventually culminated in the journ

      7 min read

    • Article

      Etched in Memory

      Nov 22, 2022

      Etched in Memory
      1 min read

    • Article

      Chesterton revisited DAN HITCHENS

      Aug 25, 2021

      Harbour Books £20 Invited to give a reading at the Catholic Poetry Society, G K Chesterton sat in miserable silence, unable to remember a single poem. ‘Will you recite The Donkey?’ someone asked. ‘Don’t know it,’ came the doleful reply. He brightened

      3 min read

    • Article

      A New Look at Frog and Toad

      May 5, 2023

      A New Look at Frog and Toad
      3 min read

    Reviews for The Children's Own Longfellow

    4.5/5

    3 ratings1 review

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 5/5
      What a thoughtful idea this book must have been. I don't know whether children in 1908 truly wanted to read most poetry, but I can remember loving "The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere" (and still do), and this book has many charmers. Here's the Publisher's Note:Longfellow has been fitly called the children's poet. Many of his poems have from their very first appearance been favorites with youthful readers, and for many thousands of children he is the poet best beloved. It has been, therefore, the hope of the publishers that this volume, containing eight of the most popular of these poems, illustrated in color by some of the best known American artists of the present day, will find a ready welcome at the hands of young folks and their parents.Contents:The Wreck of the HesperusThe Village BlacksmithEvangeline Part the FirstThe Song of Hiawatha Hiawatha's Sailing Hiawatha's FishingThe Building of the ShipThe Castle-BuilderPaul Revere's RideThe Building of the Long SerpentEvangeline is only there in a small slice (it's normally book length), and Hiawatha is just two pieces as well. I'm not familiar with a couple of these, but will be glad to make their acquaintance this evening.

    Book preview

    The Children's Own Longfellow - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

    Project Gutenberg's The Children's Own Longfellow, by Henry W. Longfellow #9 in our series by Henry W. Longfellow

    Copyright laws are changing all over the world. Be sure to check the copyright laws for your country before downloading or redistributing this or any other Project Gutenberg eBook.

    This header should be the first thing seen when viewing this Project Gutenberg file. Please do not remove it. Do not change or edit the header without written permission.

    Please read the legal small print, and other information about the eBook and Project Gutenberg at the bottom of this file. Included is important information about your specific rights and restrictions in how the file may be used. You can also find out about how to make a donation to Project Gutenberg, and how to get involved.

    **Welcome To The World of Free Plain Vanilla Electronic Texts**

    **eBooks Readable By Both Humans and By Computers, Since 1971**

    *****These eBooks Were Prepared By Thousands of Volunteers!*****

    Title: The Children's Own Longfellow

    Author: Henry W. Longfellow

    Release Date: October, 2005 [EBook #9080] [Yes, we are more than one year ahead of schedule] [This file was first posted on September 3, 2003]

    Edition: 10

    Language: English

    *** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE CHILDREN'S OWN LONGFELLOW ***

    Produced by Patricia Peters and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team.

    THE CHILDREN'S OWN LONGFELLOW

    Illustrated

    1908

    Publishers' Note

    Longfellow has been fitly called the children's poet. Many of his poems have from their very first appearance been favorites with youthful readers, and for many thousands of children he is the poet best beloved. It has been, therefore, the hope of the publishers that this volume, containing eight of the most popular of these poems, illustrated in color by some of the best known American artists of the present day, will find a ready welcome at the hands of young folks and their parents.

    CONTENTS

    THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS

    THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH

      EVANGELINE

        Part the First

      THE SONG OF HIAWATHA:

        Hiawatha's Sailing

        Hiawatha's Fishing

    THE BUILDING OF THE SHIP

    THE CASTLE-BUILDER

    PAUL REVERE'S RIDE

    THE BUILDING OF THE LONG SERPENT

    ILLUSTRATIONS

      THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS S.M. Arthurs

        He wrapped her warm in his seaman's coat

          Against the stinging blast

      THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH Howard Smith

        And children coming home from school

          Look in at the open door

      EVANGELINE

        Homeward serenely she walked with God's benediction upon her.

        When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music

      HIAWATHA'S FISHING

        And he dropped his line of cedar

          Through the clear, transparent water

      THE BUILDING OF THE SHIP C. W. Ashley

        The sun shone on her golden hair,

          And her cheek was glowing fresh and fair

      THE CASTLE-BUILDER Olive Rush

        A castle-builder, with his wooden blocks,

          And towers that touch imaginary skies

      PAUL REVERE'S RIDE Howard Smith

        A voice in the darkness, a knock at the door

      THE BUILDING OF THE LONG SERPENT

        "Men shall hear of Thorberg Skafting

          For a hundred year!"

    [Illustration: THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS S.M. Arthurs

        He wrapped her warm in his seaman's coat

          Against the stinging blast ]

    THE WRECK OF THE HESPERUS

    It was the schooner Hesperus,

      That sailed the wintry sea;

    And the skipper had taken his little daughter,

      To bear him company.

    Blue were her eyes as the fairy-flax,

      Her cheeks like the dawn of day,

    And her bosom white as the hawthorn buds,

      That ope in the month of May.

    The skipper he stood beside the helm,

      His pipe was in his mouth,

    And he watched how the veering flaw did blow

      The smoke now West, now South.

    Then up and spake an old Sailor,

      Had sailed to the Spanish Main,

    "I pray thee, put into yonder port,

      For I fear a hurricane.

    "Last night, the moon had a golden ring,

      And to-night no moon we see!"

    The skipper, he blew a whiff from his pipe,

      And a scornful laugh laughed he.

    Colder and louder blew the wind,

      A gale from the Northeast,

    The snow fell hissing in the brine,

      And the billows frothed like yeast.

    Down came the storm, and smote amain

      The vessel in its strength;

    She shuddered and paused, like a frighted steed,

      Then leaped her cable's length.

    "Come hither! come hither! my little daughter,

      And do not tremble so;

    For I can weather the roughest gale

      That ever wind did blow."

    He wrapped her warm in his seaman's coat

      Against the stinging blast;

    He cut a rope from a broken spar,

      And bound her to the mast.

    "O father! I hear the church-bells ring,

      Oh say, what may it be?"

    'T is a fog-bell on a rock-bound coast!—

      And he steered for the open sea.

    "O father! I hear the sound of guns,

      Oh say, what may it be?"

    "Some ship in distress, that cannot live

      In such an angry sea!"

    "O father! I see a gleaming light,

      Oh say, what may it be?"

    But the father answered never a word,

      A frozen corpse was he.

    Lashed to the helm, all stiff and stark,

      With his face turned to the skies,

    The lantern gleamed through the gleaming snow

      On his fixed and glassy eyes.

    Then the maiden clasped her hands and prayed

      That saved she might be;

    And she thought

    Enjoying the preview?
    Page 1 of 1