The Song of HiawathaTicknor and Fields, 1855 - 316 páginas Describes in verse the boyhood of the legendary Iroquois Indian, Hiawatha. |
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... once an idea of what the reader of German has got in this transla- tion . Longfellow and Freiligrath are altogether kindred spirits , and each , if he had to chose him- self his translator in the other's language , would entirely have ...
... once an idea of what the reader of German has got in this transla- tion . Longfellow and Freiligrath are altogether kindred spirits , and each , if he had to chose him- self his translator in the other's language , would entirely have ...
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... Once the fierce Kabibonokka Issued from his lodge of snow - drifts , From his home among the icebergs , And his hair , with snow besprinkled , Streamed behind him like a river , Like a black and wintry river , As he howled and hurried ...
... Once the fierce Kabibonokka Issued from his lodge of snow - drifts , From his home among the icebergs , And his hair , with snow besprinkled , Streamed behind him like a river , Like a black and wintry river , As he howled and hurried ...
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... Once , as he was gazing northward , Far away upon a prairie He beheld a maiden standing , Saw a tall and slender maiden All alone upon a prairie ; Brightest green were all her garments , And her hair 32 THE SONG OF HIAWATHA .
... Once , as he was gazing northward , Far away upon a prairie He beheld a maiden standing , Saw a tall and slender maiden All alone upon a prairie ; Brightest green were all her garments , And her hair 32 THE SONG OF HIAWATHA .
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... Once a warrior , very angry , Seized his grandmother , and threw her Up into the sky at midnight ; Right against the moon he threw her ; ' Tis her body that you see there . " Saw the rainbow in the heaven , In the eastern sky , the ...
... Once a warrior , very angry , Seized his grandmother , and threw her Up into the sky at midnight ; Right against the moon he threw her ; ' Tis her body that you see there . " Saw the rainbow in the heaven , In the eastern sky , the ...
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... once his pace he slackened , Only once he paused or halted , Paused to purchase HIAWATHA AND MUDJEKEEWIS . 61.
... once his pace he slackened , Only once he paused or halted , Paused to purchase HIAWATHA AND MUDJEKEEWIS . 61.
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Términos y frases comunes
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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Página 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...
Página 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 !
Página 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.
Página 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 !
Página 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!
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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
Página 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!