The hanging of the crane, by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. With illustrations.

The Hanging of the Crane is an 1874 narrative poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882), here in a Michigan Historical Reprint Series facsimile. The poem celebrates the stages of a marriage and family life around the hearth, in the warm domestic vein of America’s most popular nineteenth-century poet. The underlying text is long in the public domain. Free PDF download available on BDeBooks.