The Song of HiawathaTicknor and Fields, 1855 - 316 من الصفحات Describes in verse the boyhood of the legendary Iroquois Indian, Hiawatha. |
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الصفحة 37
... falls ! " said the people ; " From the sky a star is falling ! " There among the ferns and mosses , There among the prairie lilies , On the Muskoday , the meadow , In the moonlight and the starlight , Fair Nokomis bore a daughter . And ...
... falls ! " said the people ; " From the sky a star is falling ! " There among the ferns and mosses , There among the prairie lilies , On the Muskoday , the meadow , In the moonlight and the starlight , Fair Nokomis bore a daughter . And ...
الصفحة 62
... Falls of Minnehaha Flash and gleam among the oak - trees , Laugh and leap into the valley . There the ancient Arrow - maker Made his arrow - heads of sandstone , Arrow - heads of chalcedony , Arrow - heads of flint and jasper , Smoothed ...
... Falls of Minnehaha Flash and gleam among the oak - trees , Laugh and leap into the valley . There the ancient Arrow - maker Made his arrow - heads of sandstone , Arrow - heads of chalcedony , Arrow - heads of flint and jasper , Smoothed ...
الصفحة 63
... fall he named her , Minnehaha , Laughing Water . Was it then for heads of arrows , Arrow - heads of chalcedony , Arrow - heads of flint and jasper , That my Hiawatha halted In the land of the Dacotahs ? Was it not to see the maiden ...
... fall he named her , Minnehaha , Laughing Water . Was it then for heads of arrows , Arrow - heads of chalcedony , Arrow - heads of flint and jasper , That my Hiawatha halted In the land of the Dacotahs ? Was it not to see the maiden ...
الصفحة 73
... fall upon me , Where the sun may come and warm me ; Strip these garments , green and yellow , Strip this nodding plumage from me , Lay me in the earth , and make it Soft and loose and light above me . " Let no hand disturb my slumber ...
... fall upon me , Where the sun may come and warm me ; Strip these garments , green and yellow , Strip this nodding plumage from me , Lay me in the earth , and make it Soft and loose and light above me . " Let no hand disturb my slumber ...
الصفحة 74
... , Lest his fasting should be fatal . But he tasted not , and touched not , Only said to her , “ Nokomis , Wait until the sun is setting , Till the darkness falls around us , Till the heron , the Shuh - shuh - gah 74 THE SONG OF HIAWATHA .
... , Lest his fasting should be fatal . But he tasted not , and touched not , Only said to her , “ Nokomis , Wait until the sun is setting , Till the darkness falls around us , Till the heron , the Shuh - shuh - gah 74 THE SONG OF HIAWATHA .
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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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الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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 !
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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 !
الصفحة 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!
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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
الصفحة 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!