Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Santa Filomena, in The Courtship of Miles Standish, and Other Poems (1858), p. 184
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A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good. Heroic womanhood.
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow on Florence Nightingale
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About Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (27 February 1807 – 24 March 1882) was an American poet and one of the five members of the group known as the Fireside Poets.
About Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (27 February 1807 – 24 March 1882) was an American poet and one of the five members of the group known as the Fireside Poets.
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