"The Children's Hour" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (poetry)

The poet was very tender and loving to his five children - there were two boys as well- and had a life-long relationship with them.

You might never have heard the word "lower" pronounced in this way before. It's sometimes spelled "lour" and it means getting darker. "Lowering skies" is a more common.

Banditti are bandits.

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[Ahavati1]

A man is no more beautiful as when vulnerable in the presence of love, and humbled in the presence of youth.

Wonderful.

[thissong4you]

I learned this poem "by heart" as a very young girl in the 1950's. I have always loved the images it evokes, perhaps, in part, because I was one of three daughters, who, when we were quite little, were always "plotting and planning together" to take our father by surprise, "climbing o'er the arms and back of (his) chair, to "almost devour (him) with kisses" and giggles and laughter. Sweet memories. Thank you.

[evelutionofone]

Sweetness! yet at end a true bittersweet...



[pylgrym]

Of course, i was ruined as a kid by the Don Martin illustrations of this piece in "MAD" Magazine; now in my 61st year, father of nine, grandfather of six, I am wholly new to this marvelous work...