Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Life

Born: 17 February 1807

Died: 24 March 1882

Biography

American poet who achieved popularity in his lifetime and after. Known for works including Paul Revere's Ride, The Song of Hiawatha, and Evangeline. After the death of his second wife, he went through a period of difficulty writing poetry and focused instead on translation, including Dante's Divina Comedia.

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Settings of text by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• The arrow and the song (Walter Cecil Hay)
• As torrents in summer (Edward Elgar)
• Beware (John Liptrot Hatton)
• Calm night (John Liptrot Hatton)
• Christmas Bells (Carlotta Ferrari)
• The Cross of snow (Tim Risher)
• The curfew (Henry Thomas Smart)
• The curfew bell (Walter Cecil Macfarren)
• Footsteps of Angels (Clara Angela Macirone)
• Good night, beloved! (Edwin George Monk)
• Goodnight (John Liptrot Hatton)
• Goodnight, goodnight beloved (Ciro Pinsuti)
• The happiest land (John Liptrot Hatton)
• The Hemlock Tree (Charles Wood)
• The hemlock tree (John Liptrot Hatton)
• I heard the bells (Herbert Brewer)
• I heard the bells on Christmas day (John Baptiste Calkin)
• I heard the bells on Christmas Day (Leanne Daharja Veitch)
• I heard the bells on Christmas Day (Rod Mather)
• If thou art sleeping (John Liptrot Hatton)
• It is not always May (John Francis Barnett)
• King Witlaf's drinking horn (John Liptrot Hatton)
• A Nameless Grave (Charles West)
• O Lord that seest from yon starry height (Charles Wood)
• A psalm of life (Henry Thomas Smart)
• The rainy day (Arthur Sullivan)
• The sea hath its pearls (Ciro Pinsuti)
• The singers (Alexander Campbell Mackenzie)
• Snow-flakes (Richard Norris)
• Song of the silent land (Paul Ambrose)
• Stars of the summer night (Frederick N. Baxter)
• Stars of the summer night (Henry Thomas Smart)
• Stars of the summer night (Isaac Woodbury)
• Stars of the summer night (John Liptrot Hatton)
• Tell me not, in mournful numbers (Ciro Pinsuti)
• The Curfew (Harvey Bartlett Gaul)
• The curfew, Op.26, no.1 (Oliver Arthur King)
• The Sea hath its Pearls (Paul Ambrose)
• The summer night (Thomas Dunhill)
• The wreck of the Hesperus (Henry Hiles)
• Three sonnets of Longfellow (Peter Bird)
• Torquemada (Don Dilworth)
• The village blacksmith (John Liptrot Hatton)
• Wanderer's Night Song (Charles Wood)