On Christmas Day 1863, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow sat in his chair at his writing table and began a poem. “I heard the bells on Christmas Day / Their old, familiar carols play, / and wild and sweet / ...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) was an intensely public poet and an intensely private man. His own griefs, and they were considerable, barely make an appearance in all the large body of his ...

One of the best known American poets, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, of the Class of 1825, contributed to the wealth of carols sung each holiday season when he wrote “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day” ...

‘Then pealed the bells more loud and deep: / ‘God is not dead, nor doth He sleep,’” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow proclaims in the tremendous final verse of his 1865 Civil War poem “Christmas Bells.” We ...

Dear Readers: Wishing you and your loved ones a very Merry Christmas. “Christmas Bells” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1863 I heard the bells on Christmas Day Their old, familiar carols play, And wild ...

(Parts of this column were first published as an editorial in the York Daily Record/Sunday News at Christmas in 2014) American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote to a friend in 1863: “I have been ...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow famously penned such well-known poems as “Paul Revere’s Ride” and “The Song of Hiawatha.” He also wrote, with less fanfare, a poem on Christmas Day 1863, the words of which ...