Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Selected Works
The Slave in the Dismal Swamp
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The author gives an account of a runaway slave who escapes his master’s beatings.
The author gives an account of a runaway slave who escapes his master’s beatings.
Mrs. Fox teaches Tommy how to hunt by using a woodchuck.
The author admires the ocean from Florida's Coast.
A list and description of possible exercises that can be used to catch the attention of your students at the beginning of the school day.
"A bee that was searching for sweets one day"
While in the presence of death, the characters of the story are confronted by a strange entity.
A bear and a fox have different views of the bear’s attitude towards what he eats.
A child trudges up to bed.
The poet reflects on the world at noon, while laying back and dozing.
Tommy Stubbins tells about his life in Puddleby-on-the-Marsh and his three friends, Joe, Matthew Mugg, and Luke.
A short story about a caterpillar’s transformation into a butterfly.
A man and woman wish for a child. One winter they decide to create a snow child, and are shocked to see their creation miraculously come to life. They treat the child, Snowflake, as their own and shower her with love and affection. Unfortunately the arrival of spring brings changes that cause unhappiness.
FROM dark abodes to fair etherial light
Du Bois explains and presents the Sorrow Songs of the olden days.
"Good hunting!—aye, good hunting,"
So bashful when I spied her
She died, — this was the way she died;
A child observes the many sites that adorn the Indian River.
The author gives the reader some insight to into the purpose of his book.
The author admires the nature along the banks of the Oklawaha River.
Shadow did exactly as Whitefoot had feared. He lost the trail of Jumper and found Whitefoot’s tunnels under the snow. When he loses the direct trail, he hunts through the tunnels and finds Whitefoot’s nest where he calmly waits for his return.
The Florida Landscape changes as sunrise moves to sunset.