Evangeline

Evangeline, A Tale of Acadie is a long poem. It was written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. It was published in 1847. The poem is about a girl named Evangeline. She searches for her lost love Gabriel. Longfellow got the idea for the poem from his friend Nathaniel Hawthorne. He modelled the poem on the Greek and Roman classics. Evangeline is one of Longfellow's most popular works.

 Story 
Evangeline is a girl of Acadie, a place in Canada. She is engaged to Gabriel. They are separated when the British deport the Acadians from Acadie in the Great Upheaval. She searches for him across America. This takes many years. Sometimes she is close to him without knowing he is near. Finally she settles in Philadelphia. She grows old. She works as a Sister of Mercy among the poor. She tends the dying during an epidemic. She finds Gabriel among the sick. He dies in her arms.

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 Other websites 

1850 edition of Evangeline at Google Book Search
Longfellow-Evangeline State Park  in Louisiana
Grand-Pré National Historic Site of Canada
Audio excerpt read by Layne Longfellow; music by Michael Hoppé 

Category:19th-century American poems
Category:Poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Category:1840s poems