The Song of HiawathaW. Kent, 1860 - 224 páginas |
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... hearts are fresh and simple , Who have faith in God and Nature , Who believe , that in all ages Every human heart is human , That in even savage bosoms There are longings , yearnings , strivings For the good INTRODUCTION . 7.
... hearts are fresh and simple , Who have faith in God and Nature , Who believe , that in all ages Every human heart is human , That in even savage bosoms There are longings , yearnings , strivings For the good INTRODUCTION . 7.
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... , Written with little skill of song - craft , Homely phrases , but each letter Full of hope and yet of heart - break , Full of all the tender pathos Of the Here and the Hereafter ; Stay and read 8 THE SONG OF HIAWATHA .
... , Written with little skill of song - craft , Homely phrases , but each letter Full of hope and yet of heart - break , Full of all the tender pathos Of the Here and the Hereafter ; Stay and read 8 THE SONG OF HIAWATHA .
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... hearts the feuds of ages , The hereditary hatred , The ancestral thirst of vengeance . Gitche Manito , the mighty , The creator of the nations , Looked upon them with compassion , With paternal love and pity ; Looked upon their wrath ...
... hearts the feuds of ages , The hereditary hatred , The ancestral thirst of vengeance . Gitche Manito , the mighty , The creator of the nations , Looked upon them with compassion , With paternal love and pity ; Looked upon their wrath ...
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... heart was sad within him , For he was alone in heaven . But one morning , gazing earthward , While the village still was sleeping , And the fog lay on the river , Like a ghost , that goes at sunrise , He beheld a maiden walking All ...
... heart was sad within him , For he was alone in heaven . But one morning , gazing earthward , While the village still was sleeping , And the fog lay on the river , Like a ghost , that goes at sunrise , He beheld a maiden walking All ...
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... heart one sorrow had he . 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 ...
... heart one sorrow had he . 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 ...
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answered arrows beauty beaver behold beneath Big-Sea-Water birch canoe birds bison blue-bird Bowl branches breath Chibiabos corn-fields cried Dacotahs Dance darkness deer deer-skin doorway eyes feathers fen-lands fiery fish forest garments gayly Gitche Gumee Gitche Manito gleaming 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 meadow Megissogwon mighty Minnehaha Mondamin Moon morning mountains Mudjekeewis Nahma o'er oak-tree old Nokomis Onaway Osseo Oweenee painted Pau-Puk-Keewis pine-trees pleasant plumage prairie Ravens red deer river rose round rushes sailing Sang sea-gulls serpents shadows Shawondasee shining shining land 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 wild wind wonder yellow Yenadizze
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Página 8 - Ye whose hearts are fresh and simple, Who have faith in God and Nature, Who believe, that in all ages Every human heart is human, That in even savage bosoms There are longings, yearnings, strivings For the good they comprehend not, That the feeble hands and helpless, Groping blindly in the darkness, Touch God's right hand in that darkness And are lifted up and strengthened...
Página 3 - Should you ask me whence these stories, Whence these legends and traditions, With the odors of the forest, With the dew and damp of meadows, With the curling smoke of wigwams, With the rushing of great rivers, With their frequent repetitions, And their wild reverberations As of thunder in the mountains, I should answer, I should tell you : From the forests and the prairies; From the great lakes of the Northland, From the land of the Ojibways...
Página 45 - Hiawatha!" But he heeded not, nor heard them, For his thoughts were with the red deer; On their tracks his eyes were fastened, Leading downward to the river, To the ford across the river, And as one in slumber walked he. Hidden in the...
Página 40 - Ewa-yea ! my little owlet ! Who is this, that lights the wigwam ? With his great eyes lights the wigwam ? Ewa-yea ! my little owlet ! " Many things Nokomis taught him Of the stars that shine in heaven ; Showed him Ishkoodah, the comet, Ishkoodah, with fiery tresses ; Showed the Death-Dance of the spirits, Warriors with their plumes and...
Página 90 - Birch-tree! Growing by the rushing river, Tall and stately in the valley ! I a light canoe will build me, Build a swift Cheemaun for sailing, That shall float upon the river, Like a yellow leaf in Autumn, Like a yellow water-lily!
Página 88 - Growing by the rushing river, Tall and stately in the valley ! I a light canoe will build me, Build a swift Cheemaun for sailing, That shall float upon the river, Like a yellow leaf in Autumn, Like a yellow water-lily ! " Lay aside your cloak, O Birch-Tree ! Lay aside your white-skin wrapper, For the Summer-time is coming, fe.
Página 91 - And the tree with all its branches Rustled in the breeze of morning, Saying, with a sigh of patience, "Take my cloak, O Hiawatha!
Página 79 - And still later, when the Autumn Changed the long, green leaves to yellow, And the soft and juicy kernels Grew like wampum hard and yellow, Then the ripened ears he gathered, Stripped the withered husks from off them, As he once had stripped the wrestler, Gave the first Feast of Mondamin, And made known unto the people This new gift of the Great Spirit.
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 91 - Down the trunk, from top to bottom, Sheer he cleft the bark asunder, With a wooden wedge he raised it, Stripped it from the trunk -unbroken. "Give me of your boughs, O Cedar! Of your strong and pliant branches, My canoe to make more steady, Make more strong and firm beneath me!