郎费罗 (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) 生于1807年2月27日
　

听，孩子们，你们会听到，
保罗．里维尔夜半骑马来。

 「保罗．里维尔骑马来」 (Paul Revere’s Ride) 这首诗发表于1863年的「路边客栈的故事」 (Tales of a Wayside Inn) 一书中。保罗．里维尔是一个爱国志士，他快马奔驰在麻州的来欣顿与康科两个小镇之间，警告人们英军即将来袭。郎费罗的诗在欧洲也很受欢迎。在他死后 (1882年) ，他成为唯一一位在英国西敏寺 (Westminster Abbey) 的「诗人隅」中 (Poet's Corner) 留名的美国人。

当郎费罗在哈佛大学任教时，他的第一任妻子已经去世，所以他和第二任妻子芬妮．爱波顿 (Fanny Appleton) ，还有六个小孩一起

住在麻州的剑桥。有一天，当他独自在家时，突然有件事情激发了他的灵感，于是他写了一首有关他小孩的诗。


Listen, my children, and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere

"Paul Revere's Ride" was published in Tales of a Wayside Inn in 1863. Paul Revere was the patriot who rode on horseback through the Massachusetts towns of Lexington and Concord warning of the upcoming British attack. Longfellow's poems were also popular in Europe. After he died in 1882, he became the only American commemorated in the Poet's Corner in England's Westminster Abbey.

While Longfellow was a professor at Harvard University, he lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his second wife, Fanny Appleton, (his first wife died) and his six children. One day, while he was at home, something happened that inspired him to write a poem about his children.

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