“Paul Revere's Ride”

Cultural  

1. A poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, celebrating the ride made on horseback by Paul Revere to warn the American rebels of approaching British troops. It begins with these lines: “Listen, my children, and you shall hear / Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere.”

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Example Sentences

That line never appeared in “Paul Revere’s Ride,” of course.

From The Wall Street Journal

The event has been immortalized in the line “One if by land, and two if by sea” in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s 1860 poem “Paul Revere’s Ride.”

From Seattle Times

Imari K. Paris Jeffries, the executive director of Embrace Boston, said that he hopes when people visit Boston eager to learn about the Boston Tea Party and Paul Revere’s ride in 1775, they’ll also get a taste of the city’s diverse history as well.

From New York Times

The event was immortalized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s 1860 poem “Paul Revere’s Ride.”

From Seattle Times

The Red Sox have been scheduled to play at home on that day, a holiday in Massachusetts and Maine that celebrates Paul Revere’s ride and the battles of Lexington and Concord in 1775, every year since 1959.

From Seattle Times