Priscilla Mullins and John Alden wed, symbolizing the continuity of life in a true pastoral image.Por Fireside Poems

The young Endymion sleeps Endymion’s sleep . . .Por Fireside Poems

The essence of each poet: Chaucer and ShakespearrePor Fireside Poems

A young man learns of the death of his beloved when he comes upon a strange ceremony.Por Fireside Poems

The poet recounts an apocryphal story of the Battle of the Little Bighorn and then asks "whose was theright and the wrong?"Por Fireside Poems

The poet asks our sympathy for a woman the world considers unworthy of sympathy.Por Fireside Poems

The poet fancies himself related to a willow tree and laments the negative influence of Puritanism on New England and American culturePor Fireside Poems

A writer finishing a book ike a family going to bed.Por Fireside Poems

A "beatiful youth" is killled by a sharpshooter's bullet in the Civil War. The bullet continues on to his hometown, where it takes another life.Por Fireside Poems

Longfellow remembers the burial of his friend Nathaniel HawthornePor Fireside Poems

What should we cheer?Por Fireside Poems

We shouldn't forget the modest flowers of April when the showier flowers of May come into bloom.Por Fireside Poems

The poet meditates in the darkness upon time and eternity.Por Fireside Poems

On the 19th of April, 1775, Pau Revere rides to alert his countrymen that British troops are moving from Boston to seize Patriot munitions at Concord, Massachussetts.Por Fireside Poems

The poet is grateful that he s able to dwell in modes of being other than his own.Por Fireside Poems

A poet contemplates the gulf between medieval Christianity and the modern world.Por Fireside Poems

An old buccaneer dreams of going to sea again.Por Fireside Poems

the poet anticipaes atime of world peace.Por Fireside Poems

To have any hope of happiness with a man, a woman from when she is a child must develop both a strong sense of self-confidence and a strong sense of self-worth.Por Fireside Poems

A faather is late coming home . . .Por Fireside Poems

A medieval minnesinger provdes for the care of the birds who taught himPor Fireside Poems

The importance and need of community seen in a snow-bound farm.Por Fireside Poems

Two portraits: one of the poet's learning disabled uncle and one of a young schoolteacher such as would go to the South after the Civil War to teach the sons and the daughters of the Freedmen.Por Fireside Poems

An early 19th-century New England family passes a snowbound evening telling stories.Por Fireside Poems

A memory of a snowstorm in rural Massachussetts.Por Fireside Poems

The artist Michael Angelo reflects on the demands and importance of art.Por Fireside Poems

A schooner sinks in a storm with the daughter of its captain tied to the mast for her safety.Por Fireside Poems

A poem challenges us to think both about poetry and about nature: is nature simpy a material fact that can be understood through scentific materialism, or are their apects of nature that are unknowable trhough the scientific world view?Por Fireside Poems

The first winter snowfall brings both sadness and peace to a faher grieving the death of an infant daughter.Por Fireside Poems

The trials and tribulations of a child on Christmas morning.Por Fireside Poems

A mother and daughter build a gingerbread house as Christmas approaches.Por Fireside Poems

December represented in all its facets: natural, pagan, and Christian. Syncretism as a characteristic of Christianity.Por Fireside Poems

The Norse god Balder, considered as a transition figure from Norse paganism to Christianity.Por Fireside Poems

Can sweetness transform bitterness?Por Fireside Poems

Our most familiar Thanksgiving Day poemPor Fireside Poems

A healing ceremony of the Ojibwa nation, shown to be effective in the treatment of grief.Por Fireside Poems

For Veteran's Day, the Band of Brother's speech from Henry V by William Shakespeare.Por Fireside Poems

Aremembrnce of thoughts of despair and suicide by on of America's best-loved poets.Por Fireside Poems

A slaughtered pig comes back from the dead to avenge himself on the butcher who slaughterered him. A scary poem for Halloween.Por Fireside Poems

A poem in Hoosier dialect celebrating autumn in the rural MidwestPor Fireside Poems

The first fatal encounter between the Massachusetts Pilgrims and the native Massachusetts people, a counterweight to the story of the first ThanksgivingPor Fireside Poems

The beauty of red maples in autumn is used by the poet to convey the beauty--and loss--of his beloved.Por Fireside Poems

Longfellow invents a legend of a Viking/Norse visit to North America before Coumbus.Por Fireside Poems

Poetry as an alternative to Monday Night Football and he general hurly-burly of the world, with a shout-out to The Last Duel.Por Fireside Poems

Wordsworth, Longfellow, and our modern estrangement from nature. The World Is Too Much With UsPor Fireside Poems

A classic moment from American literature, when the Puritan maiden Priscilla says to John Alden "Why don't you speak for yourself, John?" and thus seals forever America as a place of freedom for women, men, and love.Por Fireside Poems

Still let it ever be thy pride/To linger by the laborer’s sidePor Fireside Poems

A mid-day reverie of all the human activities done with ropes, both happy and sad, good and bad.Por Fireside Poems

A woman on here bridal night raises her hand to stab her sleeping husband.Por Fireside Poems

The poet finds strength gazing on the planet Mars in the night sky.Por Fireside Poems