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)
• Autumn (George Tootell)
• Beside the ungathered rice he lay (Samuel Coleridge-Taylor)
• Beware (John Liptrot Hatton)
• Beware! (Howard M. Dow)
• Beware! (John Ebenezer West)
• The Boy and the Brook (Charles Wakefield Cadman)
• Calm night (John Liptrot Hatton)
• Children (Thomas Willert Beale)
• Christmas Bells (Carlotta Ferrari)
• The Cross of snow (Tim Risher)
• The Curfew (George H. Knight)
• The Curfew (Harvey Bartlett Gaul)
• The curfew (Henry Thomas Smart)
• The curfew bell (Walter Cecil Macfarren)
• The curfew, Op.26, no.1 (Oliver Arthur King)
• Day-Break (James Cutler Dunn Parker)
• Daybreak (Alfred Robert Gaul)
• Daybreak (Clara Angela Macirone)
• Daybreak (Joseph Eaton Faning)
• Daybreak (Lucas Williams)
• The Evening Star (Vincent d'Indy)
• Footsteps of Angels (Clara Angela Macirone)
• Good night, beloved! (Edwin George Monk)
• Good-night! Good-night, Beloved! (Maria Lindsay Bliss)
• Goodnight (John Liptrot Hatton)
• Goodnight, goodnight beloved (Ciro Pinsuti)
• The happiest land (John Liptrot Hatton)
• Hark! Pretty Lark! (John George Callcott)
• The Hemlock Tree (Charles Wood)
• The hemlock tree (John Liptrot Hatton)
• The hemlock tree (Roland Rogers)
• The Hemlock Tree (Thomas Willert Beale)
• Hymn to the night (Henry Ernest Nichol)
• 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)
• I know a Maiden fair to see (Philip James)
• If thou art sleeping (John Liptrot Hatton)
• If thou art sleeping Maiden (Alfred Plumpton)
• If thou art sleeping, Maiden (Henry Ernest Nichol)
• It is not always May (John Francis Barnett)
• King Witlaf's drinking horn (John Liptrot Hatton)
• Loud he sang the Psalm of David (Samuel Coleridge-Taylor)
• My Lady sleeps (Ernest Edwin Mitchell)
• A Nameless Grave (Charles West)
• Night (William Michael Watson)
• O Lord that seest from yon starry height (Charles Wood)
• A psalm of life (Henry Thomas Smart)
• A Psalm of Life (John Kinross)
• The rainy day (Arthur Sullivan)
• The Rainy Day (William T. Giffe)
• Resignation (John George Callcott)
• The sea hath its pearls (Ciro Pinsuti)
• The sea hath its pearls (Paul Ambrose)
• She dwells by great Kenhawa’s side (Samuel Coleridge-Taylor)
• The silent land (Alfred Robert Gaul)
• The singers (Alexander Campbell Mackenzie)
• The Singers (Cuthbert Harris)
• Snow-flakes (Arthur Cottam)
• Snow-flakes (Richard Norris)
• Snowflakes (Frederick St. John Lacy)
• Song of the silent land (John Ebenezer West)
• Song of the silent land (Paul Ambrose)
• Spanish Serenade (Edward Elgar)
• Stars of the summer night (Berthold Tours)
• Stars of the summer night (Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari)
• 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 (James Stuart Vaughan)
• Stars of the summer night (John Liptrot Hatton)
• Stars of the summer night (Thomas Crampton)
• Stars of the summer night (William F. Sudds)
• The summer night (Thomas Dunhill)
• The Sun is bright (James Coward)
• Tell me not, in mournful numbers (Ciro Pinsuti)
• Three sonnets of Longfellow (Peter Bird)
• The Tide rises, the Tide falls (Adam Carse)
• The tide rises, the tide falls (Julius Engelbert Röntgen)
• Torquemada (Don Dilworth)
• Trust her not (William F. Sudds)
• Twilight (Henry Thomas Smart)
• The village blacksmith (George West Foster)
• The village blacksmith (John Liptrot Hatton)
• Wanderer's Night Song (Charles Wood)
• When winter winds are piercing chill (Charles P. Morrison)
• The wreck of the Hesperus (Henry Hiles)