Great men and famous women - a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 7 (1894) (14783168315)

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Title: Great men and famous women : a series of pen and pencil sketches of the lives of more than 200 of the most prominent personages in history Volume 7
Year: 1894 (1890s)
Authors: Horne, Charles F. (Charles Francis), 1870-1942
Subjects: Biography
Publisher: New York : Selmar Hess
Contributing Library: Kelly - University of Toronto



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HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW 179 He said that the poem I Stood on the Bridge at Midnight was written inthe lonely hours of his widowerhood, when he used to visit Boston evenings andreturn over the bridge of the Charles. The bridge grew still as the night wore on,and the procession of the day became thin. There was a furnace at Brighton atthat time, and the reflection of the red fire fell across the dark river. The bridgeover the Charles is nearly the same now as then; it has been somewhat recon-structed, but the wooden piers are there; the drifting seaweed, the odor of thebrine, and the processions of care-encumbered men vanishing into the night.An English nobleman who is a literary critic has pronounced this poem the mostsympathetic in the language. Its popularity probably is due to the night sceneand the spirit of self-renunciafion. It is one of the most beautiful songs of theage as set to music by two English composers. We never tire of the messageof sympathy. Excelsior, which has be