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.
The author admires the ocean from Florida's Coast.
"A bee that was searching for sweets one day"
An altered look about the hills;
The author remembers his childhood in the orange groves.
While in the presence of death, the characters of the story are confronted by a strange entity.
A child trudges up to bed.
A child contemplates the sun.
In a small and lonely cabin out of noisy traffic’s way,
The poet reflects on the world at noon, while laying back and dozing.
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.
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.
Whitefoot becomes sad and uninterested in the things he once loved, but he can’t figure out why.
FROM dark abodes to fair etherial light
Du Bois explains and presents the Sorrow Songs of the olden days.
So bashful when I spied her
She died, — this was the way she died;
The story of a gnat that was able to overcome a lion despite his small size. However, as the gnat gloats about his victory he is beaten by a spider’s web.
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.