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from Polson High School <a href="http://www.flatheadreservation.org/index.php/phs"> Michael L. Umphrey website</a> <h2 class="title">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poetry An American Master</h2> By Michael L Umphrey Longfellow deserves no less than to be remembered as the native bard who gave mythic dimension to the country’s historical imagination, a national poet of epic sweep and solemn feeling who came along right at the moment when the emerging nation had the most need for one. The forest primeval, the village smithy under the spreading chestnut tree, the midnight ride of Paul Revere, the Indian princeling Hiawatha in his birch canoe—such were the iconic images Longfellow forged out of the American collective consciousness in volume after lionized volume. The enduring artistry of his ceremonious and at times overly starchy verse can be debated, but not the potency of its ennobling sentiments or the resounding strains it struck from what Lincoln famously invoked as “the mystic chords of memory.” <align=right>David Barber</align> These links are to versions of the poems with notes provided by the Department of English at the University of Toronto <a href="http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/1317.html" title="The Arrow and the Song">The Arrow and the Song</a> <a href="http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/1318.html" title="The Arsenal at Springfield">The Arsenal at Springfield</a> <a href="http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/1321.html" title="The Children's Hour">The Children’s Hour</a> <a href="http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/1322.html" title="The Cross of Snow">The Cross of Snow</a> <a href="http://www.flatheadreservation.org/index.php/phs/printer/day_done/" title="The Day is Done">The Day is Done</a> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excelsior_(Longfellow)" title="background">background</a> <a href="http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/1326.html" title="The Fire of Drift-wood">The Fire of Drift-wood</a> <a href="http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/1331.html" title="The Landlord's Tale. Paul Revere's Ride">The Landlord’s Tale. Paul Revere’s Ride</a> <a href="http://www.americanpoems.com/poets/longfellow/thevillage.shtml" title="The Village Blacksmith">The Village Blacksmith</a> <a href="http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/1335.html" title="My Lost Youth">My Lost Youth</a> <a href="http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/1336.html" title="Nature">Nature</a> <a href="http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/1339.html" title="A Psalm of Life">A Psalm of Life</a> <a href="http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/1345.html" title="There was a little girl">There was a little girl</a> <a href="http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/1346.html" title="The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls">The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls</a> <a href="http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/1348.html" title="The Witnesses">The Witnesses</a> <a href="The Wreck of the Hesperus" title="The Wreck of the Hesperus">The Wreck of the Hesperus</a> <a href="http://www.flatheadreservation.org/index.php/phs/printer/longfellow/" title="A printer-friendly version of all 15 poems in one text">A printer-friendly version of all 15 poems in one text</a> <a href="http://www.flatheadreservation.org/index.php/phs/henry_wadsworth_longfellows_poetry/">Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poetry</a> sent from Michael L. Umphrey's website