“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and oftentimes we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
About Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
27 February 1807–24 March 1882
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born on 27 February 1807 in Portland, Maine, then a bustling coastal town in Massachusetts, and died on 24 March 1882 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. During his lifetime he became, by a considerable margin, the most famous American poet of the nineteenth century. His verses were memorized…