Of all of Longfellow's beloved poems, none is so personal, so sunny, or so touching as this affectionate love letter to his three daughters, 'grave Alice, and laughing Allegra, and Edith with the golden hair'.

 

There are 32 pages in this book. This book was published 2007 by David R. Godine Publisher Inc .

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) was the most famous American poet of his time. Best known for long narrative works and the classic "Paul Revere's Ride," he was a modern languages professor at Bowdoin College and Harvard College, as well as the first American to translate Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy .