Cover of Cross of Snow

Cross of Snow

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Chapter 1 of 23 The Cross of Snow - Read by ALP

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Running time
28 min
Language
English
Readers
Algy Pug, Bill Mosley, Bruce Kachuk, Craig Franklin, Darrell Nobles and 18 others

Chapters

About this recording

LibriVox volunteers bring you 23 recordings of The Cross of Snow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

This was the Weekly Poetry project for January 1, 2023.

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Longfellow wrote this poem in 1879, 18 years after the death of his wife, Frances Appleton, in 1861. He never fully recovered from her death.

- Summary by David Lawrence