LONGFELLOW 



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LONG ISLAND 



i Grave Alice and 



laughing Allegra, 

 ||l And Edith with 

 ulUfijK golden hair 



Longfellow's Birthday 



SUGGESTIVE PROGRAMS 



The heights by great men reached and kept 

 Were not attained by sudden flight, 



But they while their companions slept 

 Were toiling upward in the night. 



Longfellow. 



I 



Song, Hemlock Tree Longfellow 



The Wreck of the Hesperus. .Longfellow 



Longfellow Katherine Lee Bates 



To H. W. L Lowell 



A Psalm of Life Longfellow 



Essay, The Boy Longfellow 



Longfellow William Winter 



The Poet and the Children Whittier 



The Village Blacksmith Longfellow 



Dramatization from Evangeline 



Longfellow Paul Hamilton Hayne 



The Luck of Edenhall Longfellow 



II 



Song, The Bridge Longfellow 



The Bell of Atri Longfellow 



Whose Shall the Welcome Be? *. 



Elizabeth Stuart Phelps 



Longfellow : H. C. Bunner 



Excelsior Longfellow 



Essay, The Friend of Children . 



In Memoriam Austin Dobson 



Longfellow Dead. .Paul Hamilton Hayne 

 The Old Clock on the Stairs. .Longfellow 

 Dramatization from Miles Standish 



The Skeleton in Armor Longfellow 



. Vale et Salve .Edith M. Thomas 



Longfellow's work is well suited to the begin- 

 ner in reading poetry. It is simple and easy 

 to read, but musical and full of thoughts that 

 appeal to any reader. The "Poet of the Com- 

 monplace" he has been called; and so, in a 

 sense, he was, for he lifted commonplace things 

 up into the realm of poetry, and brought to 

 notice beauties before unthought of. Because 

 they speak of home and of everyday work, 

 of universal experiences, some of his shorter 

 poems are probably more widely read, both 

 in Europe and in America, than those of any 

 other poet in the language. 



It is rather whole poems than scattered 

 sayings from Longfellow which have become 

 familiar the world over, but the following 

 quotations are among those which are so much 

 a part of the language that the person who 

 makes use of them scarcely stops to think who 

 wrote them first: 



Look, then, into thine heart, and write ! 



Lives of great men all remind us 

 We can make our lives sublime. 



Into each life some rain must fall, 

 Some days must be dark and dreary. 



This is the forest primeval. 



Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me- 

 nots of the angels. 



There are no birds in last year's nest. 

 Home-keeping hearts are happiest. 



Consult Higginson's Henry Wadsworth Long- 

 fellow ; Perry's The Centenary of Longfellow; 

 Trent's Longfellow and Other Essays, 



LONG ISLAND, a long, narrow strip of land, 

 a part of the state of New York, about 118 

 miles in length and varying in width from 

 twelve to twenty-three miles, extending east 

 from the mouth of the Hudson River. It is 

 connected with New York City, across East 

 River, by four suspension bridges (see BRIDGE, 

 subhead Suspension Bridges') and is separated 

 from Connecticut by Long Island Sound. The 

 transportation facilities are of the best. A 

 large portion of the island is under cultivation, 

 and extensive market gardening furnishes large 

 supplies of produce for New York and Brook- 

 lyn. Other portions of the island are compara- 

 tively wild. Brooklyn, now a part of the city 

 of New York, is the principal city, but the 

 island is famous for its great number of sum- 

 mer resorts and as the home of many thousands 

 of people whose business interests are on Man- 

 hattan Island, the original New York City. See 

 NEW YORK (City). 



