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"I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day" is a Christmas carol based on the 1863 poem "Christmas Bells" by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. [1] The song tells of the narrator hearing Christmas bells during the American Civil War , but despairing that "hate is strong and mocks the song of peace on earth, good will to men".
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American poet and educator. His original works include the poems "Paul Revere's Ride", "The Song of Hiawatha", and "Evangeline". He was the first American to completely translate Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy and was one of the fireside poets from New England.
Title page illustration for an 1864 edition of Tales of a Wayside Inn. Tales of a Wayside Inn is a collection of poems by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.The book, published in 1863, depicts a group of people at the Wayside Inn in Sudbury, Massachusetts, as each tells a story in the form of a poem.
A picture of Marian Longfellow as a child, circa 1851, in the collection of the Maine Historical Society. Sheet music for Longfellow's "The Eagle and the Dove a Call to Arms", a song she wrote during World War I, in the collection of the Library of Congress. Works by Marian Longfellow O'Donoghue at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
King George and Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother (as she was later nicknamed) were crowned on May 12, 1937, another reassuring move for the monarchy as the date originally chosen for Edward's ...
Pages in category "Poetry by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow" The following 17 pages are in this category, out of 17 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Another loss. Diana Maxwell, Lady Farnham, died on December 29 at age 90, ending her 34-year run as Queen Elizabeth II‘s lady-in-waiting. Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip’s Seven-Decade Love ...
In 1923, First Lady Grace Coolidge gave the District of Columbia Public Schools her blessing to place a Christmas tree on the White House's South Lawn, as per the National Park Service. This ...