On February 27, 1807, Henry
Wadsworth Longfellow was born in Portland, Maine. He taught modern languages at Bowdoin College in Maine and
at Harvard University in Massachusetts. His many famous poems included “Psalm
of Life,” “Excelsior,” “The Song of Hiawatha,” “The Wreck of the Hesperus,”
“Tales of a Wayside Inn,” and “Evangeline.” A friend of the Transcendentalists
of the Concord-Cambridge area, Longfellow was the most famous American poet of
his time, at home and abroad, and was especially loved in England, where he
received honorary degrees from both Oxford and Cambridge. His house in Cambridge, once a center
of the intellectual life in the Boston area, is now maintained by the National
Park Service, which gives historical tours and hosts cultural events.
Longfellow died on March 24, 1882.
WEEKLY INSPIRATION:
"Cherish your
doubts, for doubt is the attendant of truth. Doubt is the key to the door of
knowledge; it is the servant of discovery. A belief which may not be questioned
binds us to error, for there is incompleteness and imperfection in every
belief. Doubt is the touchstone of truth; it is an acid which eats away the
false. Let no one fear for the truth, that doubt may consume it; for doubt is
the testing of belief. The truth stands boldly and unafraid; it is not shaken
by the testing."
- Robert T. Weston
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