Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems Characters

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems Character List

Paul Revere

The character of "Paul Revere's Ride", warned every village and farm of Middlesex of approaching British march.

Evangeline Bellefontaine

Evangeline is a character from the same named poem.

The village smith

"The Village Blacksmith" is a poem dedicated to a hardworking village smith who earns his bread honestly and has no need to hide his eyes because he owes no man.

The Bird

The Bird is a personified character from the poem "The Bird and the Ship". The ship offers the bird to travel on its tail but the bird refuses as it is not comparable to flying with her own wings.

Mother from "The Child Asleep"

"The Child Asleep" is told by a mother looking down on her sleeping baby and sighing for the child's father who is not there.

Emperor Charles of Spain

From the poem "The Emperor's Bird's-Nest", the emperor and his army are on a front fighting against the French. Soldiers discover a swallow's nest in the emperor's tent and he forbids anyone to touch it or disturb the tent even after they are gone.

A dreamer of dreams

The speaker of the poem from the poem "The Bells of San Blas" calls himself a dreamer of dreams and laments about the bells of San Blas who are to him more than a name.

The angler

The speaker of the poem "The Angler's Dream" is an angler who is describing the beauty of nature that surrounds him.

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