Talks about authors and their work . ^ heart goes back to wander among the dreams of the days that were I find m) lost youth the strange and beautiful songThe groves are repeating it still,A boys will is the winds willAnd the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts. 82 TALKS ABOUT AUTHORS. Henry Longfellow became one of the greatpoets of the world while still a young , Hiawatha, and many other poemshave been translated into other languages. Hetraveled in Europe, and wrote both prose and. CRAIGIE HOUSE. poetry about the scenes in other lands. He wasmade Profe
Talks about authors and their work . ^ heart goes back to wander among the dreams of the days that were I find m) lost youth the strange and beautiful songThe groves are repeating it still,A boys will is the winds willAnd the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts. 82 TALKS ABOUT AUTHORS. Henry Longfellow became one of the greatpoets of the world while still a young , Hiawatha, and many other poemshave been translated into other languages. Hetraveled in Europe, and wrote both prose and. CRAIGIE HOUSE. poetry about the scenes in other lands. He wasmade Professor of Modern Languages in Har-vard College, after serving as Professor in hisown college. All the honors he received madehim happy, but never selfish or love for children is shown in his poems TALKS ABOUT AUTHORS. S3 and told of in many ways by his friends. Inone of his poems called Children, he writes: Come to me, O ye children! And whisper in my earWhat the birds and the winds are singing, In your sunny atmosphere. For what are all our contrivings. And the wisdom of our compared with your caresses And the gladness of your looks. Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said:For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead. The Childrens Hour is a beautiful poemwritten about his own little girls—Alice, Allegraand Edith—but he meant it for all children: I have you fast in my fortress, And will not let you put you down in the dungeon, In the round tower o
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