greykit.poetry — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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1861
[henry-wadsworth-longfellow]
Paul Revere’s Ride
One if by land, and two if by sea — the signal lanterns in the North Church tower, the muffled oars across the Charles, and the midnight gallop through Medford, Lexington and Concord that woke the countryside.
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1840
[henry-wadsworth-longfellow]
The Village Blacksmith
Under a spreading chestnut-tree, a man who owes not any man — the ringing bellows, the children coming home from school, the daughter's voice in the village choir, and a life read back as a lesson wrought at the sounding forge.
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1840
[henry-wadsworth-longfellow]
The Wreck of the Hesperus
A skipper who laughs at the old sailor's warning takes his little daughter into the hurricane, lashes her to the mast, and is found with her frozen on the breakers of Norman's Woe.
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1838
[henry-wadsworth-longfellow]
A Psalm of Life
Life is real, life is earnest — a refusal of the dream of numbers and the grave as goal, urging footprints on the sands of time and a heart for any fate: still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.