The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Evangeline, Song of Hiawatha, Courtship of Miles StandishHoughton, Mifflin, 1886 |
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Page 90
... wigwam , Fading and melting away and dissolving into the sunshine , Till she beheld him no more , though she followed far into the forest . Then , in those sweet , low tones , that seemed like a weird incantation , Told she the tale of ...
... wigwam , Fading and melting away and dissolving into the sunshine , Till she beheld him no more , though she followed far into the forest . Then , in those sweet , low tones , that seemed like a weird incantation , Told she the tale of ...
Page 93
... wigwam . There upon mats and skins they reposed , and on cakes of the maize - ear Feasted , and slaked their thirst from the water- gourd of the teacher . Soon was their story told ; and the priest with so- lemnity answered : " Not six ...
... wigwam . There upon mats and skins they reposed , and on cakes of the maize - ear Feasted , and slaked their thirst from the water- gourd of the teacher . Soon was their story told ; and the priest with so- lemnity answered : " Not six ...
Page 113
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
Page 127
... wigwam , I will put his smouldering fire out ! " And at night Kabibonokka To the lodge came wild and wailing , Heaped the snow in drifts about it , Shouted down into the smoke - flue , Shook the lodge - poles in his fury , Flapped the ...
... wigwam , I will put his smouldering fire out ! " And at night Kabibonokka To the lodge came wild and wailing , Heaped the snow in drifts about it , Shouted down into the smoke - flue , Shook the lodge - poles in his fury , Flapped the ...
Page 133
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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Acadian answered arrows Basil beauty beaver behold beneath Big-Sea-Water birch canoe birds breath Captain Chibiabos cornfields cried Dacotahs darkness deer deer-skin doorway Evangeline eyes face father fell forest Gabriel gazed Gitche Gitche Gumee Gleamed Grand-Pré grave guests hand heard heart heaven hexameter Hiawatha Homeward Iagoo Indian John Alden Kahgahgee Kenabeek Kwasind lake land Laughing Water leaped Line listened little Hiawatha lodge looked magic maiden maize Manito Mayflower meadow mighty Miles Standish Minneha Minnehaha Mondamin moon morning mountains Mudjekeewis Nahma night o'er old Nokomis Osseo passed Pau-Puk-Keewis pine-trees Plymouth poem prairie Priscilla river rose round rushes sailed Sang shadow shining shore shouted sigh silent singing slowly smile song Song of Hiawatha sorrow sound spake Spirit Star stood sturgeon sunshine sweet tresses unto village voice Wabasso waited wampum war-club warriors Wenonah West-Wind whispered wigwam wild wind wonder words yellow
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Page 106 - Dwells another race, with other customs and language. Only along the shore of the mournful and misty Atlantic Linger a few Acadian peasants, whose fathers from exile Wandered back to their native land to die in its bosom. In the fisherman's cot the wheel and the loom are still busy ; Maidens still wear their Norman caps and their kirtles of homespun, And by the evening fire repeat Evangeline's story, While from its rocky caverns the deep-voiced, neighboring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate...
Page 295 - Thus made answer and spake, or rather stammered than answered : "Such a message as that, I am sure I should mangle and mar it; If you would have it well done, — I am only repeating your maxim, — You must do it yourself, you must not leave it to others...
Page 134 - 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 hear thee!" Lulled him into slumber, singing, "Ewa-yea! my little owlet!
Page 19 - Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answers the wail of the forest. This is the forest primeval ; but where are the hearts that beneath it Leaped like the roe, when he hears in the woodland the voice of the huntsman...
Page 103 - And from her eyes and cheeks the light and bloom of the morning. Then there escaped from her lips a cry of such terrible anguish, That the dying heard it, and started up from their pillows.
Page 74 - Then from a neighboring thicket the mocking-bird, wildest of singers, Swinging aloft on a willow spray that hung o'er the water, Shook from his little throat such floods of delirious music, That the whole air and the woods and the waves seemed silent to listen. Plaintive at first were the tones and sad: then soaring to madness Seemed they to follow or guide the revel of frenzied Bacchantes. Single notes were then heard, in sorrowful, low lamentation ; Till, having gathered them all, he flung them...
Page 264 - I hear a rushing, Hear a roaring and a rushing, Hear the Falls of Minnehaha Calling to me from a distance !
Page 63 - Sometimes in churchyards strayed, and gazed on the crosses and tombstones, Sat by some nameless grave, and thought that perhaps in its bosom He was already at rest, and she longed to slumber beside him.
Page 192 - From the sky the moon looked at them, Filled the lodge with mystic splendors, Whispered to them, " O my children, Day is restless, night is quiet, Man imperious, woman feeble ; Half is mine, although I follow ; Rule by patience, Laughing Water ! " Thus it was they journeyed homeward ; Thus it was that Hiawatha To the lodge of old Nokomis Brought the moonlight, starlight, firelight, Brought the sunshine of his people, Minnehaha, Laughing Water, Handsomest of all the women In the land of the Dacotahs,...
Page 69 - Sailed on those gloomy and midnight streams, blew a blast on his bugle. Wild through the dark colonnades and corridors leafy the blast rang, Breaking the seal of silence, and giving tongues to the forest. Soundless above them the banners of moss just stirred to the music. Multitudinous echoes awoke and died in the distance, Over the watery floor, and beneath the reverberant branches...