Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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# Clue Answer As Given Value Round Category Air Date Show
"It was one by the village clock, when he galloped into Lexington. He saw the gilded weathercock swim in the moonlight" Longfellow $600 J IN THE WORDS OF THE POET 2025-05-30 #9345
American guy / "The Wreck of the Hesperus" / That's all you should need Longfellow $600 J HAIKU ABOUT THE POET 2023-11-06 #8966
Inspired by stories from his grandfather, his "Battle of Lovell's Pond" appeared in the Portland Gazette in 1820 when he was 13 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow FJ POETS 2022-11-01 #8732
"One, if by land, and two, if by sea; and I on the opposite shore will be" Longfellow $1,600 DJ QUOTH THE POET 2017-05-31 #7543
One of his "Tales of a Wayside Inn" begins, "Listen, my children, and you shall hear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere" (Henry Wadsworth) Longfellow $400 DJ POETS & POETRY 2013-01-01 #6512
"But mostly he watched with eager search the belfry-tower of the Old North Church" Longfellow $400 DJ QUOTH THE POET 2012-10-18 #6459
"There he sang of Hiawatha, sang the song of Hiawatha, sang his wondrous birth and being" (Henry Wadsworth) Longfellow $400 DJ POETRY, THY NAME IS HIM 2012-06-08 #6395
A familiar poem by him begins, "Under the spreading chestnut tree the village smithy stands" Longfellow $800 DJ AMERICAN POETRY 2009-06-24 #5723
Nokomis knows him:HWL Henry Wadsworth Longfellow $800 DJ POETS' MONOGRAMS 2009-04-08 #5668
"Homeward now went Hiawatha; pleasant was the landscape round him, pleasant was the air above him" Longfellow $400 DJ POETRY IN MOTION 2009-01-16 #5610
"One if by land, and two, if by sea; and I on the opposite shore will be" Longfellow $200 J NAME THAT POET 2007-04-11 #5208
"By the shores of Gitche Gumee, by the shining big-sea-water, stood the Wigwam of Nokomis" (Henry Wadsworth) Longfellow $600 J NAME THAT POET 2007-02-12 #5166
He finished writing "Evangeline" on his 40th birthday Longfellow $400 J POETS & POETRY 2007-01-23 #5152
In December 1839 he penned the line, "It was the schooner Hesperus that sailed the wintry sea" Longfellow $2,000 DJ POETIC LINES 2005-09-12 #4826
He was a descendant of John & Priscilla Alden, whose love story he told in an 1858 narrative poem (Henry Wadsworth) Longfellow DD $2,000 DJ AMERICAN POETS 2004-01-15 #4459
With 6 children, this poet was well-equipped to write "The Children's Hour" Henry Wadsworth Longfellow $300 J POETS & POETRY 1999-11-23 #3502
"Listen, my children, and you shall hear of the midnight ride of Paul Revere" Henry Wadsworth Longfellow $200 DJ NAME THE POET 1999-07-12 #3436
"The trees are white with dust" in this "Hiawatha" author's poem "The Jewish Cemetery at Newport" Henry Wadsworth Longfellow $200 DJ EGAD! MORE POET-TREE! 1999-07-09 #3435
His poem on teacher Parker Cleaveland is less well known than his "Paul Revere's Ride" Longfellow $100 J PEOPLE IN POETRY 1998-10-07 #3238
Before writing poems like "Hiawatha" he taught modern languages at Bowdoin College Henry Wadsworth Longfellow $200 DJ POETS & POETRY 1998-09-25 #3230
He wrote the poetic line "Then he climbed to the tower of the Old North Church" Henry Wadsworth Longfellow $400 DJ POET-POURRI 1998-05-12 #3167
In 1879 the children of Cambridge, Massachusetts gave him an armchair made of chestnut wood Longfellow FJ POETS 1996-09-03 #2757
His "Evangeline" was based in part on a story told to him by Nathaniel Hawthorne Longfellow $400 DJ POETS 1996-03-11 #2661
From 1835 to 1854, this "Evangeline" poet was a professor of modern languages at Harvard Henry Wadsworth Longfellow $600 DJ POETS & POETRY 1995-04-21 #2460
"Paul Revere's Ride" was the first poem in his "Tales of a Wayside Inn", published in 1863 Longfellow $200 DJ POETS 1995-01-03 #2382
This poet modeled his "Tales of a Wayside Inn" on Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" Henry Wadsworth Longfellow $800 DJ POETS 1994-12-15 #2369
An 1863 poem by this man includes the line "On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five" Longfellow FJ POETS 1994-02-22 #2187
After writing about "The Wreck of the Hesperus", he wrote "The Building of the Ship" Henry Wadsworth Longfellow DD $1,600 DJ POETS & POETRY 1993-11-29 #2126
This man who wrote "The Children's Hour" for his own daughters was "The Children's Poet" Longfellow $1,000 DJ POETS' NICKNAMES 1993-03-02 #1962
In 1973, this poet's Cambridge, Mass. home, Craigie House, was made a National Historic Site Henry Wadsworth Longfellow $800 DJ POETRY 1992-09-17 #1844
As a wedding gift, this poet's father-in-law gave him Craigie House in Cambridge, Massachusetts Henry Wadsworth Longfellow $800 DJ POETS 1991-11-07 #1654
His mother's maiden name was Zilpah Wadsworth, hence his middle name Longfellow $200 DJ POETS 1991-02-13 #1493
This author of "Evangeline" was the American honored in Poet's Corner in Westminster Abbey Longfellow $200 DJ POETS 1990-02-05 #1256
"By the shores of Gitche Gumee, by the shining big-sea-water, stood the wigwam of Nokomis" Longfellow $200 DJ NAME THAT POET 1989-06-20 #1122
In "Tales of a Wayside Inn", he wrote about "Ships that pass in the night" Henry Wadsworth Longfellow $400 DJ POETS 1989-01-20 #1015
His tragic 1841 ballad "The Wreck of the Hesperus" was inspired by an actual shipwreck Henry Wadsworth Longfellow $1,000 DJ POETRY 1989-01-05 #1004
He wrote "There was a little girl, she had a little curl" & "The Wreck of the Hesperus", too (Henry Wadsworth) Longfellow $800 DJ POETRY 1985-03-15 #135
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