This author memorialized his wife's death in a fireplace accident in his poem "The Cross of Snow.
This author memorialized his wife's death in a fireplace accident in his poem "The Cross of Snow." A long poem by this author, written in dactylic hexameter, follows Gabriel Lajeunesse's (lah-zhoo-NESS-ess) travails during the expulsion of the Acadians from Canada. In addition to Evangeline, this author wrote about the husband of Minnehaha (mini-HA-ha) and about a man instructed to "hang a lantern aloft in the belfry arch/Of the North Church tower as a signal light." For 10 points, name this writer of The Song of Hiawatha and "Paul Revere's Ride."
This author memorialized his wife's death in a fireplace accident in his poem "The Cross of Snow.
Henry Wadsworth {Longfellow}