The over life-size white marble bust of the poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was unveiled in Poets' Corner Westminster Abbey in 1884, on a pillar near to the tomb of Geoffrey Chaucer. It is by the ...

Each bearing his burden of sorrow, Have crossed the bridge since then." — Excerpt from "The Bridge" by Henry Wadsworth ...

The most famous person in this family was 19th-century poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, who grew up in the home. Along with its esteemed namesake, the home is also important to Portland and U.S ...

For Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, as one war rages without, another rages within. For the next two years, Christmases come and go. Henry writes, “How inexpressibly sad are all the holidays.