Poetry Resources
Portland Press Herald
Tales of a Wayside Inn (1863)
Prelude: One Autumn night in Sudbury town.
Click here for Prelude in PDF. In Word format.

The Landlord's Tale
Click for Landlord's Tale in PDF. In Word Format.

Tales of Wayside Inn (1863 -1873)
Click for complete Tales in PDF. In Word Format.
     
Portland Press Herald
     
  Hiawatha
Hiawatha (1855)
Complete epic poem. Click here for Hiawatha in PDF. In Word format.
     
  Courship of Miles Standish
The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858)
Complete epic poem. Click here for Miles Standish in PDF. In Word format.
     
  Dante's Inferno
The Divine Comedy (1865 - 1867)
Canticle I: Inferno. Click here for Canticle I in PDF. In Word format.
Canticle III: Paradiso. Click here for Cantile III in PDF. In Word format.
Digital Dante: This website offers "an online, multimedia Dante-related academic resource"
Click for home page. Click for translation versions.
     
  Digital Dante
Digital Dante: This website offers "an online, multimedia Dante-related academic resource."
Click for home page. Click for translation versions.
     
  to a child
Selected Lyric Poems
"Belfry of Bruges" Click for poem in PDF. In Word format.
"The Building of the Ship" Click for poem in PDF. In Word format.
"A Psalm of Life" Click for poem in PDF. In Word format.
"To a Child" Click for poem in PDF. In Word format.
"The Village Blacksmith" Click for poem in PDF. In Word format.

For other lyric poems, see the Maine Historical Society Poems Database.
     
   
Image Credits: All images courtesy of The National Park Service, Longfellow National Historic Site
     
  NEA Big Read
The Longfellow Big Read at Longfellow's Wayside Inn is funded by the National Endowment for the Arts in partnership with Arts Midwest.

For more information on The Big Read, visit www.neabigread.org.

The 2010 Longfellow Big Read is made possible through the generous support of the National Endowment for the Arts and the Sudbury Foundation.