Evangeline and Other Poems Author:Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The major poems contained in this book are "Evangeline," "The Courtship of Miles Standish," and excerpts from "The Song of Hiawatha." Thirty-five of Longfellow's more popular short poems are included such as "The Wreck of the Hesperus," "Paul Revere's Ride," and "The Village Blacksmith."