Classic and Contemporary Poetry
LONGFELLOW, by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And his old age made beautiful with song' Last Line: A stainless fount, -- the truest hippocrene. Alternate Author Name(s): Dobson, Austin Subject(s): Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth (1807-1882) | ||||||||
(Born at Portland, Maine, U.S.A., February 27th, 1807.) 'AND his old age made beautiful with song.' These were thy words of Chaucer who, grown old, Like thee, those wand'ring 'Wayside' tales retold, Which all men hearken to, when hours are long. But thou hadst added to the rest a throng From Western Worlds; and Northern Runes unroll'd; And sought in Gestes and Fables manifold Thy 'Birds of Passage,' fleet of wing and strong. Bard of the bygone days when we were young! Be this thy praise, that never flower'd among Thy 'Garden of Romance' aught base or mean; And still, through all the changes of the year, Thy stream of verse came welling pure and clear, A stainless fount, -- the truest Hippocrene. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW; IN MEMORIAM by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON THE SHADES OF NIGHT by ALFRED EDWARD HOUSMAN TO HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW; ON HIS BIRTHDAY, 27 FEB. 1867 by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL LONGFELLOW by JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY THE VILLAGE MUNITIONS CO., INC.; FORMERLY THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH by FRANKLIN PIERCE ADAMS TAKE YOUR CHOICE: AS LONGFELLOW WROTE IT by BERTON BRALEY LONGFELLOW by CHRISTOPHER PEARSE CRANCH IN MEMORIAM by MIRIAM DEL BANCO IN MEMORIAM: LONGFELLOW DEAD by PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE A FANCY FROM FONTENELLE by HENRY AUSTIN DOBSON |
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