Longfellow -

From the first time that I read Longfellow, he has left an impression on me. The Village Blacksmith was his first poem that I read in my school text book and like it instantly. What attracts me to Longfellow is the simplicity of the flow of his thoughts. He does not consciously use 'big' words but somehow these 'big' words seem to fit into his poems comfortably. The ideas that he writes about are appealing to me somehow.
The last two stanzas of The Village Blacksmith are the best and that is what I can till date recite by-heart. It goes like this...
"Toiling,--rejoicing,--sorrowing,
Onward through life he goes;
Each morning sees some task begin,
Each evening sees it close
Something attempted, something done,
Has earned a night's repose.

Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend,
For the lesson thou hast taught!
Thus at the flaming forge of life
Our fortunes must be wrought;
Thus on its sounding anvil shaped
Each burning deed and thought."


Since then I have read many of his peoms and there is another that is also nice...which again i am reproducing because I simply feel so( I know most of you must have read this).... Today has been a session for reading peoms and so this impulse to post some of the good ones here for all of you nice people to read, appreciate and maybe get hooked to :-)

So here comes from ChutKutWorld, another of his classics... "The Arrow and The Song"

"I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.

I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For who has sight so keen and strong,
That it can follow the flight of song?

Long, long afterward, in an oak
I found the arrow, still unbroke;
And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend."


Now if you are already a fan of Longfellow then please do share your views here on ChutKut World. If you were not but are liking the above two peoms of his, then again write to me, so that I know that atleast I did something for 'the great poet'. And if you think this is crap and you wasted your time.... well.... your choice of blogs is really refined !! Congratulations !!!( Naaahhhh...!!! Simbbblllllyyyy joking yaar ) :-)