Bent Northrop Memorial Library

The famous narrative poem recreating Paul Revere's midnight ride in 1775 to warn the people of the Boston countryside that the British were coming.

"The Riverside Press Cambridge."Engraved t.p. vignette: Craigie-Longfellow House, Cambridge.Originally published: The complete poetical works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The Cambridge edition of the poets / edited by H. E. Scudder. Boston ; New York : Houghton, Mifflin and Co., [c1893]."The present edition...is based upon the Riverside [1886]. It contains the entire text as published in the six volumes of verse.... A biographical sketch introduces...

The famous narrative poem recreating Paul Revere's midnight ride in 1775 to warn the people of the Boston countryside that the British were coming.

An illustrated selection of twenty-seven complete or excerpted poems by the renowned nineteenth-century New England poet. Also includes information about his life.

Describes in verse the boyhood of the legendary Iroquois Indian, Hiawatha.