Poetry

The Wreck of the Hesperus

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth, 1807-1882; Andrew, George T., 1842- [Engraver]; Barnes, Hiram P. (Hiram Putnam), 1857-1920 [Illustrator]; Buhler, Augustus W. (Augustus Waldeck), 1853-1920 [Illustrator]; Garrett, Edmund H. (Edmund Henry), 1853-1929 [Illustrator]; Halsall, William Formby, 1841-1919 [Illustrator]; Lewis, Arthur James, 1825?-1901 [Illustrator]; Pierce, H. Winthrop (Herman Winthrop), 1850- [Illustrator]; Taylor, William Ladd, 1854-1926 [Illustrator]; Woodward, J. D. [Illustrator]· 1 chapters· 890 words

"Norman's Woe" is the picturesque name of a rocky headland, reef, and islet on the coast of Massachusetts, between Gloucester and Magnolia. The special disaster in which the name originated had long been lost from memory when the poet Longfellow chose the spot as a background...