. Seven great American poets. rigi-nally perfect power. Now and then gleams of light and stretchesof lovely landscape shine out, but for the most part his mastrrywas over dismal, superstitious, and waste places. In imagina-tion, as in action, his was an evil genius; and in its realms ofrevery he dwelt alone. Except the wife who idolized him, andthe mother who cared for him, no one touched his heart in theyears of his manhood, and at no time was love so strong in himas to rule his life. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW 1807-1 KHli lie the sweetest of all and childlike was he,liiavi
. Seven great American poets. rigi-nally perfect power. Now and then gleams of light and stretchesof lovely landscape shine out, but for the most part his mastrrywas over dismal, superstitious, and waste places. In imagina-tion, as in action, his was an evil genius; and in its realms ofrevery he dwelt alone. Except the wife who idolized him, andthe mother who cared for him, no one touched his heart in theyears of his manhood, and at no time was love so strong in himas to rule his life. HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW 1807-1 KHli lie the sweetest of all and childlike was he,liiavi as man is, suft as wouian,riiant as a wand of willow,Slattly as a deer with antlers. All the many sounds nf natureBorrowed sweetness from his sinijliis ;All the hearts of men were softenedBy the pathos of his music ;For he sang of peace and freedom,Sauu of beauty, love, and longing ;Saug of death, and life uudylugIn the land of the his gentleness they loved himAnd the magic of liis siugnig. The Sony of HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Come, read to me some poem, Some simple and heartfelt lay,Tliat shall soothe this restless feeling, And banish the thonglits of ilay. Not from the grand old masters. Not from the bards suljlinie,Whose distant footsteiis crho Through the eorridors of time. Read from some humbler poet. Whose songs gush from his heart, As showers from the clouds of tears from the eyelids start. TItc Day Is Done. Hknuv Wadswouth Lf)NGFELLOW was born in Portrland, Maine, February 27,1807, in a great, square houseby the sea. From his fathers side, he was a descend-ant of a New England family whose founder, WilliamLongfellow, came from England in the latter part ofthe seventeenth century, and settled at Newbury, Massa-chusetts. His mother, Zilpah Wadsworth, was adaughter of General Wadsworth of Revolutionary fame,whose ancestors dated back to the landing of the ^lay-flower. From both sides, therefore, Longfellow was 151 152 HENEY WADSWOETH L
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