1-158-882 - Ann Ronan Picture Library/Heritage-Images

Longfellow's house, c1880. Cover of sheet music of setting of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem The Old House by the Lindens (The Open Door) set to music by John Blockley, showing a man holding his child's hand and looking at the home of his childhood. Longfellow (1807-1882), American poet born in Portland, Maine, is popularly remembered today for his poem Paul Revere's Ride (1863) and his long narrative poems 'The Song of Hiawatha and The Courtship of Miles Standish (1858).