On Christmas Day 1863, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow sat in his chair at his writing table and began a poem. “I heard the bells on Christmas Day / Their old, familiar carols play, / and wild and sweet / ...

(Parts of this column were first published as an editorial in the York Daily Record/Sunday News at Christmas in 2014) American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote to a friend in 1863: “I have been ...

This poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow may be familiar to you because English organist John Baptiste Calkin set it to music in 1872, calling the rendering, “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day.” What ...

It’s long been the favorite Christmas carol here. Though history remembers him more for “Hiawatha” and “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere,” the most poignant work from the masterful pen of Henry ...

American poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, on Christmas Day of 1863, wrote what has become a well-loved carol, “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day.” His words reflect on a world of injustice and pain ...

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On Christmas day, 1863, the American poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow sat at his desk in his home in Cambridge, Massachusetts and wrote the haunting poem that we know as “I Heard the Bells on ...

‘Then pealed the bells more loud and deep: / ‘God is not dead, nor doth He sleep,’” Henry Wadsworth Longfellow proclaims in the tremendous final verse of his 1865 Civil War poem “Christmas Bells.” We ...