 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...  The Song of Hiawatha - Page 39by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 316 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1856 - 542 pages
...Big-Sea-Water, Stood the wigwam of Nokomis, Daughter of the Moon, Nokoiuis. Dark behind it rose the forest, Rose the black and gloomy pine-trees, Rose the firs with...water, Beat the clear and sunny water, Beat the shining Big- Sea- Water.' — P. 21. and in the description of the strong man (the Indian Samson it might seem)... | |
 | Christianity - 1856 - 538 pages
...Gumee, 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; Beat the clear and sunny water, Bright before it beat the water, Beat the shining Big-Sea-Water.'—P.... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Indians of North America - 1861 - 324 pages
...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...it beat the water, Beat the clear and sunny water, THE SONG OF HIAWATHA. Beat the shining Big-Sea-Water. There the wrinkled, old Nokomis Nursed the little... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1863 - 484 pages
...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...wrinkled, old Nokomis Nursed the little Hiawatha, Rorked him in his linden cradle, Bedded soft in moss and rushes, Safely bound with reindeer sinews... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1863 - 492 pages
...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...sunny water, Beat the shining Big-Sea-Water. There the wrmkled, old Nokomis Nursed the little Hiawatha, Rocked him in his linden cradle, Bedded soft in moss... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1864 - 512 pages
...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...the shining Big-Sea-Water. There the wrinkled, old Nokorais Nursed the little Hiawatha, Rocked him in his linden cradle, Bedded soft in moss and rushes,... | |
 | Robert Barnwell Roosevelt - Fishes - 1865 - 310 pages
...every landscape, stretched away as far as the eye could reach. " 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 weather, Beat the clear and sunny water, Beat the shining Big-Sea-Water." Such a day is admirably adapted... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1866 - 710 pages
...Daughter of the Moon, Nokomis. Dark behind it rose the forest, Rose the black and gloomy pine-trees, Eose the firs with cones upon them; Bright before it beat...clear and sunny water, Beat the shining Big-Sea-Water. Kursed the little Hiawatha, Rooked him in his linden cradle, Bedded soft in moss and rushes, Safely... | |
 | John Townsend Trowbridge, Lucy Larcom, Gail Hamilton - Children's literature - 1868 - 810 pages
...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...and sunny water, Beat the shining Big-Sea-Water." YES ! that 's all very true. I have been there, and I know ; and I could n't have described it any... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1872 - 730 pages
...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...the shining Big-Sea-Water. There the wrinkled, old Nokomia Nursed the little Hiawatha, Rocked him in his linden cradle, Bedded soft in moss and rushes,... | |
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