Cover of The Children's Hour — a father in his lamplit study as three small girls creep down the stair

The Lantern-Light Classics · bedtime poems, newly illustrated

The Children's Hour

A Bedtime Poem for Fathers and Daughters

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Longfellow’s evening ambush, written for his own three daughters — the pause between the dark and the daylight, small feet on the stair, and a father taken by storm in his own castle. One evening in the study, from dusk to firelight.

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