. Home school of American literature: . if within the distant Aidenn,It shall clasp a sainted maiden, whom the angels name Lenore;Clasp a rare and radiant maiden, whom the angels name Lenore! Quoth the raven, Nevermore ! Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend ! I shrieked, upstarting,—Get thee back into the tempest and the nights Plutonian shore!Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken !Leave my loneliness unbroken !—quit the bust above my door!Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door ! Quoth the raven, Nevermore ! And the raven, neve
. Home school of American literature: . if within the distant Aidenn,It shall clasp a sainted maiden, whom the angels name Lenore;Clasp a rare and radiant maiden, whom the angels name Lenore! Quoth the raven, Nevermore ! Be that word our sign of parting, bird or fiend ! I shrieked, upstarting,—Get thee back into the tempest and the nights Plutonian shore!Leave no black plume as a token of that lie thy soul hath spoken !Leave my loneliness unbroken !—quit the bust above my door!Take thy beak from out my heart, and take thy form from off my door ! Quoth the raven, Nevermore ! And the raven, never flitting, still is sitting, still issitting On the pallid bust of Pallas, just above my chamber-door ; And his eyes have all the seeming of a demons thatis dreaming. And the lamp-Hght oer him streaming throws hisshadow on the floor; And my soul from out that shadow that lies floatingon the floor Shall be lifted—nevermore ! ^11^- HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW. THE POET OF THE PEOPLE. ^He who sung to one clear harp in divers N an old square wooden house upon the edge of the sea the mostfamous and most widely read of all American poets was born inPortland, Maine, February 7th, 1807. In his personality, his wide range of themes, his learning and hiswonderful power of telling stories in song, Henry WadsworthLongfellow stood in his day and still stands easily in front of allother poets who have enriched American literature. Admitting that he was notrugged and elemental like Bryant and did not possess the latters feelings forthe colossal features of wild scenery, that he was not profoundly thoughtfuland transcendental like Emerson, that he was not so earnestly and passionatelysympathetic as Whittier, nevertheless he was our first artist in poetry. Bryant,Emerson and Whittier commanded but a few stops of the grand instrumentupon which they played; Longfellow understood perfectly all its also say that he had not the high ideality or dramatic power ofTen
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