{"date":"February 27","id":"02-27","intro":["“Tell me not in mournful numbers, life is but an empty dream . . .” “Stars of the summer night! Far in yon azure deeps—” So begin poems that have charmed and cheered thousands."],"minutes":16,"readings":[{"author":"Henry Wadsworth Longfellow","end":1280,"start":1264,"volume":42,"work":"Poems"}],"slug":"february-27","status":"proofread","title":"Poet Apostle of Good Cheer","url":"/harvard-classics/february-27/","words":3108}