"The Building of the Ship" and "Excelsior" are perhaps the best known of his shorter poems.
Longfellow died at Cambridge in 1882.
THE POEM.
"Evangeline" is considered Longfellow's masterpiece among his longer poems.

It is said to have been the author's favorite.

It has a universal popularity, having been translated into many languages.
E.C.Stedman styles it the "Flower of American Idyls." "Evangeline" is a Narrative poem, since it tells a story.

Some of the world's greatest poems have been of this kind, notably the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey" of Homer, and the "Aeneid," of Virgil.

It may be also classified as an Idyl, which is a simple, pastoral poem of no great length.
Poetry has been defined as "impassioned expression in verse or metrical form." All modern English poetry has metre, and much of it rhyme.