Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) was an intensely public poet and an intensely private man. His own griefs, and they were considerable, barely make an appearance in all the large body of his ...

On Christmas Day 1863, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow sat in his chair at his writing table and began a poem. “I heard the bells on Christmas Day / Their old, familiar carols play, / and wild and sweet / ...

‘Then pealed the bells more loud and deep: / ‘God is not dead, nor doth He sleep,’” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow proclaims in the tremendous final verse of his 1865 Civil War poem “Christmas Bells.” We ...

Their old, familiar carols play, And wild and sweet The words repeat Of peace on earth, good-will to men! And thought how, as the day had come, The belfries of all Christendom Had rolled along The ...

‘GOD IS NOT DEAD.’ ‘I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day’ by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, music by J.L. Hatton. The pencil annotation of the date appears to be by H.W.L. Dana, the poet’s grandson, who ...

FARGO — For more than 200 years, people have been enjoying the melodic rhyming and nostalgic memories associated with Clement C. Moore's poem "Twas the Night Before Christmas." For almost half of that ...