Hello and welcome back to The Daily Poem. I'm David Kern.

Before we get started, I just want to say thank you for being patient with me this weekend.

As many of you know, North Carolina, where we are situated here at the SRC Institute and the Close Reeds Podcast Network is right in line,

or I guess was right in line for Hurricane Florence. So we were being cautious with our

comings and goings over the last few days. So I appreciate your patience as you waited for this

first episode of this week. Today's poem is by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, one of the most famous and successful poets

of his time, and a poet who was quite popular during his life.

Longfellow is known for several book-length poems, including Evangeline. Also a long poem called Hiawatha.

He's known for the courtship of Miles Standish and other poems. But many of you probably know him for

one of two things, either the short poem, Paul Revere's Ride, which was written around the time

of the beginning of the Civil War and was a call for steadfastness as the war was beginning. And then you also might know him for his production,

his translation of Dante's Divine Comedy. He was the first, he produced the first American

translation of the Divine Comedy. About the time he died in 1882, he was the most famous poet in America.

His birthday, his 75th birthday was actually celebrated all across the country.

So unlike many poets, such as Emily Dickinson and Keats, for example, to name just to name

his two, he actually reached a pretty high level of fame and success during his life, to the extent that he was able to largely live off of his writing the last couple of decades.

The poem that I'm going to read today is called The Tide Rises and the Tide Falls, and it felt somehow appropriate.

It was on the schedule anyway for this week

but it feels appropriate to read this sort of poem when living in the well in the wake i suppose

of a hurricane whose waters are still receding so with that in mind here is the tide rises

the tide falls by henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

The tide rises, the tide falls, the twilight darkens, the curly you calls.

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