- Okay, by heart, mind you, here is the poem: The Children’s Hour by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
- Between the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day’s occupations, That is known as the Children’s Hour.
- Longfellow's poem "The Children's Hour" shows the love between a father and his children.
- About a year after this poem was written, in 1861, Longfellow’s second wife and the children’s mother, Fanny, was putting locks of her children’s hair into an...
- Her play hours were stolen from a mother’s chores that a child did — hours of gold and green and cobalt blue, snatched, sequestered, coveted and caressed.
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "The Children's Hour" is a heartwarming and evocative poem that captures the magic and innocence of childhood.
- A pause within the day to breathe flowers is called the Children's Hour.
- Between the dark and the daylight, When the night is beginning to lower, Comes a pause in the day’s occupations, That is known as the Children’s Hour.
- Eugene Field was an American journalist and writer known as the “poet of childhood” because he published many poems for and about children.