By Charles McGrath CROSS OF SNOW A Life of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow By Nicholas ... sentiments in that sentimental poem “The Children’s Hour” weren’t just a put-on.

Five children giggle with delight ... fighting to live—fighting to want to live. For Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, as one war rages without, another rages within. For the next two years ...

For Paul Revere's Ride: The Landlord's Tale by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Charles Santore assumes the perspective of the narrator's ""friend."" For ""Listen, my children, and you shall hear/ Of ...

From 1822 to 1825, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow attended Bowdoin College ... for it was open only one hour a day, and only one book could be taken out every three weeks. Henry was glad he had brought ...

In generations past, what child did not memorize “Listen, my children, and you shall hear/Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere” and other stirring lines from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ...

It is titled The Hanging of the Crane by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882 ... But as the years passed and the children left home, the leaves would be taken out and the table shrunk until ...

The most famous person in this family was 19th-century poet Henry ... Children 5 and younger can enter for free. The garden, which is free to access, is open during Wadsworth-Longfellow House ...

For Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, that’s his very first published poem, “The Battle of Lovell’s Pond,” which recognizes fallen soldiers whose “names are engraven on honor’s bright crest.” ...