He used dactylic hexameter in a poem that sees the titular maiden search for her lover Gabriel; that poem begins by saying that "This is the forest primeval."  
One of his poems describes a "land beyond the sea" "Where amid her mulberry-trees / Sits Amalfi in the heat, / Bathing ever her white feet."  He wrote of objects that are the voice of the church and the voice of the past in a poem that asked what they said "to ships that southward pass / From the harbor of Matzatlan?" in "The Bells of San Blas."  In a sonnet to his dead wife, Frances, he describes a memorial for her displayed in the ravines of a "mountain in the distant West," "The (*) Cross of Snow". He used dactylic hexameter in a poem that sees the titular maiden search for her lover Gabriel; that poem begins by saying that "This is the forest primeval."  He wrote of the grandson of Nokomi whose wigwam sits by the shores of Gitche Gumee in his most famous work.  For 10 points, name this American Fireside poet of "Evangeline" and "The Song of Hiawatha."
One of his poems describes a "land beyond the sea" "Where amid her mulberry-trees / Sits Amalfi in the heat, / Bathing ever her white feet."  
Henry Wadsworth {Longfellow}