Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
By: Jalyn
Early Childhood
Birthday: February 27, 1807
Born in Portland, ME
Deathdate: March 24, 1882
Died in Cambridge, MA
Parents
Father- Stephen Longfellow
Mother- Zilpah Wadsworth Longfellow
Growing Up
Marriage
Former Spouse- Mary Storer Potter (m. 1831-1835)
Died of a miscarriage
Spouse- Fanny Appleton Longfellow (m. 1843-1861)
Dress caught on fire
Children
Charles Appleton Longfellow (1884-1893)
Ernest Wadsworth Longfellow (1845-1921)
Alice Mary Longfellow (1850-1928)
Fanny Longfellow (not listed)
Edith Longfellow (not listed)
Anne Allegra Longfellow (not listed)
Other jobs
- Denied teaching job, first time
- Pay went up, took the job
Early School
- Portland Academy
- Bowdoin College
First published poem
Published in "Portland Gazette"
529 published poems
"The Psalm of Life"
Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.
Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
Dust thou art, to dust returnest,
Was not spoken of the soul.
Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way;
But to act, that each to-morrow
Find us farther than to-day.
Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave.
In the world’s broad field of battle,
In the bivouac of Life,
Be not like dumb, driven cattle!
Be a hero in the strife!
Trust no Future, howe’er pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Act,— act in the living Present!
Heart within, and God o’erhead!
Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time;
Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing o’er life’s solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.
Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait