The Song of HiawathaDescribes in verse the boyhood of the legendary Iroquois Indian, Hiawatha. |
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... had stolen the Belt of Wampum From the neck of Mishe - Mokwa , From the Great Bear of the mountains , From the terror of the nations , As he lay asleep and cumbrous On the summit of the mountains , Like a rock THE FOUR WINDS.
... had stolen the Belt of Wampum From the neck of Mishe - Mokwa , From the Great Bear of the mountains , From the terror of the nations , As he lay asleep and cumbrous On the summit of the mountains , Like a rock THE FOUR WINDS.
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. On the summit of the mountains , Like a rock with mosses on it , Spotted brown and gray with mosses . Silently he stole upon him , Till the red nails of the monster Almost touched him , almost scared him ...
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. On the summit of the mountains , Like a rock with mosses on it , Spotted brown and gray with mosses . Silently he stole upon him , Till the red nails of the monster Almost touched him , almost scared him ...
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... rocks asunder , He could grind them into powder . He had moccasons enchanted , Magic moccasons of deer - skin ; When he bound them round his ankles , When upon his feet he tied them , At each stride a mile he measured ! Much he ...
... rocks asunder , He could grind them into powder . He had moccasons enchanted , Magic moccasons of deer - skin ; When he bound them round his ankles , When upon his feet he tied them , At each stride a mile he measured ! Much he ...
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... rock yonder , Nothing but the fatal Wawbeek ! " And he looked at Hiawatha With a wise look and benignant , With a countenance paternal , Looked with pride upon the beauty Of his tall and graceful figure , Saying , " O my Hiawatha ! Is ...
... rock yonder , Nothing but the fatal Wawbeek ! " And he looked at Hiawatha With a wise look and benignant , With a countenance paternal , Looked with pride upon the beauty Of his tall and graceful figure , Saying , " O my Hiawatha ! Is ...
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... rock , On the fatal Wawbeek laid it , With his mittens , Minjekahwun , Rent the jutting crag asunder , Smote and crushed it into fragments , Hurled them madly at his father , The remorseful Mudjekeewis , For his heart was hot within him ...
... rock , On the fatal Wawbeek laid it , With his mittens , Minjekahwun , Rent the jutting crag asunder , Smote and crushed it into fragments , Hurled them madly at his father , The remorseful Mudjekeewis , For his heart was hot within him ...
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50 cents answered arrows beauty beaver behold beneath Big-Sea-Water birch canoe birds bison branches Chibiabos Cloth corn-fields cried Dacotahs Dance darkness daughter deer deer-skin doorway eyes feathers fen-lands fiery fish forest garments gayly Gitche Gumee Gitche Manito guests hand Heard heart heaven heron Homeward hunter Iagoo Indian Kabibonokka Kahgahgee Kenabeek Kwasind lake Lake Superior land Laughing Water leaped Listen little Hiawatha lodge looked magic Magicians maiden maize Manito meadow Megissogwon mighty Minnehaha Mondamin Moon mountains Mudjekeewis Nahma night o'er old Nokomis Osseo Oweenee painted Pau-Puk-Keewis pine-trees pleasant POEMS prairie Price 50 Price 75 cents Ravens red deer river rose round rushes sailing Sang sea-gulls serpents shadows Shawondasee shining shouted Shuh-shuh-gah sighing silence singing Song of Hiawatha spake Spirit Star stood sturgeon sunset sunshine tree-tops tresses tribes village Wabasso Wabun wampum war-club warriors Wenonah West-Wind westward whispered wigwam wind yellow Yenadizze
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Page 127 - As unto the bow the cord is, So unto the man is woman, Though she bends him, she obeys him, Though she draws him, yet she follows, Useless each without the other...
Page 41 - Running straight across the heavens, Crowded with the ghosts, the shadows. At the door on summer evenings Sat the little Hiawatha ; Heard the whispering of the pine-trees, Heard the lapping of the water, Sounds of music, words of wonder ; " Minne-wawa ! " said the pine-trees, " Mudway-aushka !
Page 39 - By the shores of Gitche Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, Stood the wigwam of Nokomis, Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis. Dark behind it rose the forest, Rose the black and gloomy pine-trees, Rose the firs with cones upon them; Bright before it beat the water, Beat the clear and sunny water, Beat the shining Big-Sea-Water.
Page 45 - Go, my son, into the forest, Where the red deer herd together, Kill for us a famous roebuck, Kill for us a deer with antlers ! " Forth into the forest straightway All alone walked Hiawatha Proudly, with his bow and arrows ; And the birds sang round him, o'er him, " Do not shoot us, Hiawatha !
Page 40 - Big-Sea-Water. There the wrinkled , old Nokomis Nursed the little Hiawatha, Rocked him in his linden cradle , Bedded soft in moss and rushes , Safely bound with reindeer sinews ; Stilled his fretful wail by saying, " Hush ! the Naked Bear will get thee ! " Lulled him into slumber, singing, "Ewa-yea! my little owlet!
Page 8 - Ye, who sometimes, in your rambles Through the green lanes of the country, Where the tangled barberry-bushes Hang their tufts of crimson berries Over stone walls gray with mosses, Pause by some neglected graveyard, For a while to muse, and ponder...
Page 17 - If his warnings pass unheeded, You will fade away and perish ! " Bathe now in the stream before you, Wash the war-paint from your faces, Wash the blood-stains from your fingers, Bury your war-clubs and your weapons, Break the red stone from this quarry, Mould and make it into PeacePipes, Take the reeds that grow beside you, Deck them with your brightest feathers, Smoke the calumet 'together, And as brothers live henceforward...
Page 44 - How the beavers built their lodges, Where the squirrels hid their acorns, How the reindeer ran so swiftly, Why the rabbit was so timid, Talked with them whene'er he met them, Called them
Page 263 - O the famine and the fever ! O the wasting of the famine ! O the blasting of the fever ! O the wailing of the children ! O the anguish of the women ! All the earth was sick and famished ; Hungry was the air around them, Hungry was the sky above them, And the hungry stars in heaven Like the eyes of wolves glared at them!