Henry W. Longfellow's 'The Wreck Of The Herspeus'

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“Our history contains songs, poems, and stories about ships and tragedy”, said Mrs.Nelson, our history teacher.
“Some of these”, she continued, “we’ll examine class.”
Henry W. Longfellow, famous American poet of the 1800s, wrote a poem about a ship that sank during a storm.
Name some other works by Longfellow.
The poem which was based on an actual event, is called “The Wreck of the Herspeus”, and it is one of Longfellow’s best-known poem.

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