Longfellow from A to Z part 1 Trivia Quiz

Answer: Dove

"Annie of Tharaw" was also the name of a song put together by Simon Von Dach in 1635. The song was about a woman who was the exact opposite of the woman portrayed in the poem written by Longfellow in 1844. The poem can be found in Longfellow's poetry collection titled, "Translations".

Answer: Cornfields

"Blessing the Cornfields" was part thirteen of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, "The Song of Hiawatha". In this section, Hiawatha was asking his wife Minnehaha to bless the cornfields so they would be protected from mildew or insects. Longfellow began writing "The Song of Hiawatha" in 1854.

Answer: Eyelid

The poem was from Longfellow's poetry collection entitled, "Translations". The poem was also translated into French by Marguerite Clotilde and put to music by Edward Schaaf in 1902.

Answer: Sleep

Longfellow's poem was about a burial ground where the soldiers were finally at their rest. "Decoration Day" was part of the poetry anthology entitled "In the Harbor" published in 1882.

Answer: Two parts

Henry Wadsworth's famous poem was broken into two parts with each part having five subparts. "Evangeline" was the story of a young French woman searching for her lover Gabriel who died in his arms on the day she found him. Longfellow wrote "Evangeline" in 1845 and published the poem on November 1, 1847.

Answer: Upon her death

"Forsaken" was part of the "Translations" poetry collection. It was published in 1878.

Answer: Red Sea

"Leafless are the trees; their purple branches spread themselves abroad, like reefs of coral rising silent in the Red Sea of the winter sunset." The aforementioned quote is the first three lines of Longfellow's poem, "The Golden Milestone". Longfellow's poem can be found in the "Birds of Passage" poetry collection published in 1845.

Answer: Swabian

The Swabian was the first person to speak about his land being the happiest land. After that, the Saxon and the Bohemian spoke that their land was the happiest land. Only after the others brought up their happiest land, did the landlord's daughter speak out that heaven was indeed the happiest land.

Longfellow's poem was published in the "Translations" poetry collection. The poems in this anthology were all translated from German; in 1836 Longfellow spent a winter in that country.

Answer: Dust

Rumor had it that the woman written about "In the Churchyard at Cambridge" was Madame Vassel who was buried with one slave at her feet and one slave at her head just as the poem had said. "In the Churchyard at Cambridge" was in the "Birds of Passage" poetry anthology which was published in 1845.

Answer: Apollo

Jugurtha was the name of a Libyan king executed in 104 B.C. Jugurtha cried out to Apollo as he entered the dungeon where he stayed until his death. The poem "Jugurtha" was part of the "Ultima Thule" poetry collection published in 1880.

Answer: Mist and smoke

"King Christian" was written as the national song of Denmark. The poem was written in 1835 and became part of the "Translations" poetry collection. Longfellow was in Copenhagen when he first heard the song that later he had translated into this poem.

Answer: Summer

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow translated this Spanish poem into English in 1831. The poem was originally written by Fernando de Herrera.

Answer: Moods

"Moods" was part of the "Birds of Passage" poetry collection published in 1845.

Answer: False

"Noel" was originally written in French. Longfellow sent this poem along with a basket of wine to a group of friends at Christmas time in 1864. The poem was published in the "Flower-de-Luce" poetry collection published in 1867.

Answer: Forever, never

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote this poem on the word of a French missionary named Bridaine who wrote, 'This is a clock of which the pendulum says and repeats endlessly those two words only in the tombs' silence, -- Always, never! Never, always! And during these frightening changes, a condemned one cries out, `What time is it?' and the voice of another wretched one replies, `Eternity.'

The house mentioned in the poem was the Pluckett house lived in by Henry's
grandfather-in-law. The Longfellows lived there the summer of 1843, but he didn't write the poem until the winter of 1845. "The Old Clock on the Stairs" can be found in "The Belfry of Bruges" poetry collection published in 1845.