Best Longfellow Poems
Below are the all-time best Longfellow poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of longfellow poems written by PoetrySoup members
The Poets I Hope To Meet In Heaven - a Tribute To Chan Hurst 1979-2014A few poems written by Chan Hurst, (Just That Archaic Poet)
I hope that we can find some comfort in them at this sad time.
"A Rational...
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Categories:
longfellow, dedication, farewell, friend, miss
Form:
Rhyme
Because I Live“Not enjoyment, and not sorrow;
Is our destined end or way;
But to act, that each to-morrow
Find us farther than today.”
A...
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Categories:
longfellow, life,
Form:
Rhyme
High Bred RealitySoul progress
back field in motion
The guff
Chose, chose, live grow leave! GO!
Leapt from heaven's gold
Jump...
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Categories:
longfellow, childhood, faith, family, father,
Form:
Verse
Little Ol' MeI wish I could write
like those others before me,
Byron and Shelley and old Edgar Poe
Flowery phrases
Thy love unforgetting,
chasing a raven as ink tends to flow
Follow...
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Categories:
longfellow, poems, poetess, poetry, poets,
Form:
Rhyme
Mother's Bookmark'sMy thoughts they roil like waters dark
in the abyss of blackest night,
with memories of mother’s bookmark,
of Longfellow read by lamp light.
She called, in...
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Categories:
longfellow, absence, loss, love, mother
Form:
Ode
Dear Treasure Chest“The heart hath its own memory, like the mind, and in
It are enshrined the precious keepsakes, into which is
Wrought the giver’s loving thought.” Henry Wadsworth...
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Categories:
longfellow, memory,
Form:
Sonnet
Call Your MotherCall Your Mother
Pick up the phone...
do it now.
If you can.
Later if you must,
I trust that you,
know the difference.
She never put you...
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Categories:
longfellow, abuse, confidence, earth, encouraging,
Form:
Free verse
Harvey Denning 1909-1923Harvey Denning
1909 – 1923
“I saw the universe a thousand times.”
I saw the face of God
Spread out across the sky
Like a million cities on fire.
Like Troy...
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Categories:
longfellow, death, universe,
Form:
Epitaph
The ContestThe Contest
I would like to enter,
and sometimes I do.
Occasionally I even win,
to my surprise.
How cool!
The true rule,
to every fool,
or pirate...
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Categories:
longfellow, america, friendship, hero, homework,
Form:
Narrative
Writing's a DragThe Drag of Writing
A smidgeon of silly,
a scintilla of sad,
a wee gong of rhyming wit,
a sentence to start me
a participle dangling
a lead to bring me...
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Categories:
longfellow, writing,
Form:
Rhyme
Sunset SpiritSunset Spirit
Close your eyes,
and stop thinking.
Take a moment...
breathe.
God is already beside you.
He has always been there.
It is you,
that must slow...
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Categories:
longfellow, angel, death, grief, heaven,
Form:
Free verse
FearFear
It is a very small demon.
It is a tiny monster,
that never stops chewing on;
anything it can get.
It is the one that hides,...
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Categories:
longfellow, angel, bible, creation, inspiration,
Form:
Free verse
ButterflyButterfly
Butterfly sweet,
lovely wings of gossamer gold.
Stretch your tips to the stars,
as that is the reality of freedom.
Glide for hours above the...
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Categories:
longfellow, butterfly, cancer, confusion, daughter,
Form:
Free verse
Wet MoonSagan grins from a Pale Blue Dot
As LCROSS finds water in Cabeus.
Is Su Shih's bright moon finally told --
Echoed by Dickinson's moon of gold?
Did Armstrong...
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Categories:
longfellow, moon, poetry, science, science
Form:
Quatrain
AndAnd
Goat heads, cockleburs, and cow pies.
These are the things
we live with, in the country.
Some you step on,
some travel in your clothes,...
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Categories:
longfellow, adventure, christian, creation, garden,
Form:
Free verse