Ocupation: Poet
Life: February 27, 1807 - March 24, 1882
Birthday: February 27
Death: March 24
I have a passion for ballad. . . . They are the gypsy children of song, born under green hedgerows in the leafy lanes and bypaths of literature,--in the genial Summertime.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
topic: Song, Children, Passion, Hedgerows
