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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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  • As he got into high school, a teacher noticed his writing talent and began schooling him in the ways of poets such as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, William Wordsworth and Edgar

    Dancetracks Digital: New Downloads 2010

  • "tracts" or pamphlets attacking the institution of slavery written by influential opinion leaders such as Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Harriett Beecher Stowe.

    BYU News 2010

  • Henry Stuart Wortley's 1862 albumen silver print on the Dark Skies wall, Ms. Lyden pulls out a paper and reads the first stanza of a Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem: "The day is done and the darkness / Falls from the wings of Night, / As a feather is wafted downward / From an eagle in his flight."

    Trained Toward the Heavens Arnie Cooper 2011

  • The name is a reference to the line in the 1861 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem, Paul Revere's Ride – "One, if by land, and two if by sea".

    Rush Limbaugh declares war over Sarah Palin and Margaret Thatcher 2011

  • So for those who live with me "between laughter and lamentation" as a dear preacher friend observed, I remind us of the words from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

    Rev. Ruth Hawley-Lowry: The Hopes And Fears Of All The Years (A Lament At Christmas) Rev. Ruth Hawley-Lowry 2011

  • In recent years, the Abbey has added controversial memorials to Gerard Manley Hopkins (a Catholic), Percy Bysshe Shelley (an atheist), and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (gasp! an American).

    John Lundberg: Ted Hughes Memorialized at Poets' Corner John Lundberg 2011

  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, the most popular American poet of the 19th century, shared the same sentiment when he wrote: "If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man's life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility."

    Rev. Charles Gibbs: Those Whose Stories We Have Not Heard Rev. Charles Gibbs 2011

  • Literary luminaries such as Mark Twain, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow and Henry James showered it with praise.

    The Novel That Changed America Fergus M. Bordewich 2011

  • In recent years, the Abbey has added controversial memorials to Gerard Manley Hopkins (a Catholic), Percy Bysshe Shelley (an atheist), and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (gasp! an American).

    John Lundberg: Ted Hughes Memorialized at Poets' Corner John Lundberg 2011

  • In recent years, the Abbey has added controversial memorials to Gerard Manley Hopkins (a Catholic), Percy Bysshe Shelley (an atheist), and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (gasp! an American).

    John Lundberg: Ted Hughes Memorialized at Poets' Corner John Lundberg 2011

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