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 ...

And wild and sweet the words repeat, of peace on earth, goodwill to men. As we navigate this frantic season, and as we shake collective heads at collected headlines, I’d like to pause a moment and ...

‘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 ...

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” ...

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 ...

“’Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse.” These words come from the first two lines of immensely popular poem “A Visit from St.

One of the most well-known American poets, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, penned the words to the familiar Christmas carol, “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day,” which was adapted from his 1864 poem, ...

(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 ...