Longfellow Serenade's title is a reference.
== Writing ===== Style ===Much of Longfellow's work is categorized as lyric poetry, but he experimented with many forms, including hexameter and free verse
 kindles, softens, cheers [and] calms the wildest woe and stays the bitterest tears!"The rapidity with which American readers embraced Longfellow was unparalleled in publishing history in the United States; by 1874, he was earning $3,000 per poem

