Longfellow Poetry
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) wrote hundreds of poems. The most familiar refrain he created form the opening two lines of "The Arrow and the Song." Perhaps forgotten, and worthy of reminder, is the portion of this work about the song -- a tender thought about friendship.
I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, so swiftly it felw, 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.
