What is the title of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow poem that starts with words shades night were falling fast?
The poem you're thinking of is
"The Rainy Day" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Here are the opening lines:
> The day is cold, and dark, and dreary;
> It rains, and the wind is never weary;
> The shades of night are falling fast,
> As though the day were near its last.