This author described a Viking who escapes to America with his blue-eyed lover before committing suicide in his early poem, "The Skeleton in Armor." A character described as "a wife, but not a mother," falls from the moon in another of this man's poems; her daughter, Wenonah, is seduced by the West-Wind. This man also described "A line of black that bends and floats / On t
This author described a Viking who escapes to America with his blue-eyed lover before committing suicide in his early poem, "The Skeleton in Armor." A character described as "a wife, but not a mother," falls from the moon in another of this man's poems; her daughter, Wenonah, is seduced by the West-Wind. This man also described "A line of black that bends and floats / On the rising tide like a bridge of boats," news of which is relayed to that poem's protagonist through lanterns in the North Church tower. For 10 points, name this American poet who wrote "Paul Revere's Ride" and The Song of Hiawatha.
This author described a Viking who escapes to America with his blue-eyed lover before committing suicide in his early poem, "The Skeleton in Armor."
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow