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Poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow


The Arrow and the Song


I shot an arrow into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.

I breathed a song into the air,
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For who has sight so keen and strong
That it can follow the flight of song?

Long, long afterward, in an oak
I found the arrow, still unbroke;
And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.

"The Arrow and the Song," by Longfellow (1807-82), is placed first in this volume out of respect to a little girl of six years who used to love to recite it to me. She knew many poems, but this was her favourite.



Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Poem Theme: Friendship

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's other poems:
  1. A Ballad of the French Fleet
  2. Autumnal Nightfall
  3. Birds of Passage
  4. Walter von der Vogelweide
  5. Curfew


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