Who wrote the line about one parting lasting only a season and meeting again?

Who wrote the line about one parting lasting only a season and meeting again?

• A. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• B. Anne Bradstreet
• C. James Russell Lowell
• D. Herman Melville

Answer: (A)

The line expresses a comforting belief that parting is temporary and that lovers or friends will reunite. This hopeful, reassuring tone is a hallmark of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, whose poetry often centers on family, friendship, and enduring bonds, delivered with a gentle, consoling voice. The other writers here—Bradstreet with devotional Puritan themes, Lowell with civic and satirical concerns, Melville with darker, more philosophical explorations—don’t typically express that specific sense of a brief separation followed by a guaranteed reunion in their well-known lines. So the sentiment most closely matches Longfellow’s established voice and themes.

The line expresses a comforting belief that parting is temporary and that lovers or friends will reunite. This hopeful, reassuring tone is a hallmark of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, whose poetry often centers on family, friendship, and enduring bonds, delivered with a gentle, consoling voice. The other writers here—Bradstreet with devotional Puritan themes, Lowell with civic and satirical concerns, Melville with darker, more philosophical explorations—don’t typically express that specific sense of a brief separation followed by a guaranteed reunion in their well-known lines. So the sentiment most closely matches Longfellow’s established voice and themes.