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

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

The essence of each poet: Chaucer and ShakespearreAv Fireside Poems

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

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

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

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

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

Longfellow remembers the burial of his friend Nathaniel HawthorneAv Fireside Poems

What should we cheer?Av Fireside Poems

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

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

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

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

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

the poet anticipaes atime of world peace.Av 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.Av Fireside Poems

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Can sweetness transform bitterness?Av Fireside Poems

Our most familiar Thanksgiving Day poemAv Fireside Poems

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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