Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“Tell me not, in mournful numbers, life is but an empty dream.”
Poet · 1807 – 1882
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an American poet and educator, among the most popular poets of his century. He wrote Paul Revere's Ride, The Song of Hiawatha and Evangeline, and produced the first American translation of Dante's Divine Comedy.
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