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Paul Revere's Ride by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1861) is an American narrative poem recounting the midnight warning ride before the Battles of Lexington and Concord in 1775.
The Village Blacksmith by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1840) is an American poem celebrating an honest laborer as a moral exemplar of strength, duty, and perseverance.
A Psalm of Life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1838) is an American poem rejecting pessimism and urging earnest, purposeful living as a response to life's brevity.
The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1855) is a narrative poem based on Ojibwe legends depicting a Native American hero's life in trochaic tetrameter.
Evangeline by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1847) is a narrative poem following an Acadian woman's lifelong search for her betrothed after the British deportation of 1755.
