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 ! " Thus the youthful Hiawatha Said within himself and pondered, Much perplexed by various... Poems - Page 295by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1863Full view - About this book
| 1856 - 1432 pages
...the river, full of light and color, repose and action. Here is the account of his hero's wooing : " ' As unto the bow the cord is, . So unto the man is...feelings, Listless, longing, hoping, fearing, Dreaming still of Minnuhaha, Of the lovely Laughing Water, In the land of the Dacotahs. ' Wed a maiden of your... | |
| 1856 - 706 pages
...Poet, (in a lucid interval), beautifully and truthfully tells us. " A« nnto the bow the cord !», So unto the man Is woman, Though she bends him, she...him. yet she follows, Useless each without the other ' " Hiawatha wooes and wins Hinnehaha, the Laughing Water, and the daughter of the " ancient arrow-maker."... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 344 pages
...the battle, He divided with his people, Shared it equally among them. 127 X. HIAWATHA'S WOOING. 1 " As unto the bow the cord is, So unto the man is woman,...feelings, Listless, longing, hoping, fearing, Dreaming still of Minnehaha, Of the lovely Laughing Water, In the land of the Dacotahs. " Wed a maiden of your... | |
| 1855 - 902 pages
...grave is illumined with love and hope. MAN AND WO MAN As unto the bow the cord is, tio unto the mnn is woman, Though she bends him, she obeys him, Though...him, yet she follows, Useless each without the other. — SONO OP HIAWATHA. 70 Good Friday. [March, GOOD FRIDAY. FROM THE GERMAN — ST THE EDITOR. GRADUALLY... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1856 - 346 pages
...trophies of the battle, He divided with hi* people , Shared it equally among them. HIAWATHA'S WOOING. "As unto the bow the cord is, So unto the man is woman,...feelings, Listless, longing, hoping, fearing, Dreaming still of Minnehaha , Of the lovely Laughing Water, In the land of the Dacotahs. " Wed a maiden of your... | |
| 1856 - 602 pages
...form to thoughts which the Indian has scarcely realised. How graphic is this: — "As unto the how the cord is, So unto the man is woman ; Though she...him yet she follows, Useless each without the other! " How finely, too, the very profoundness of the forethought of the Indian Cadmus, who would teach his... | |
| 1857 - 280 pages
...recited in one-half the space of time required for the same number of pages of prose. HIAWATHA'S WOOING. "As unto the bow the cord is, So unto the man is woman,...feelings, Listless, longing, hoping, fearing, Dreaming still of Minnehaha, Of the lovely Laughing Water, In the land of the Dacotahs. / 88 THE ORATOR. Like... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - 1858 - 348 pages
...beautiful daughter, Minnehaha, or Laughing Water, Nokomis is hi mother, by whom he had been brought up.] " As unto the bow the cord is, So unto the man is woman...feelings, Listless, longing, hoping, fearing, Dreaming still of Minnehaha, Of the lovely Laughing Water, In the land of the Dacotahs. " Wed a maiden of your... | |
| William Prescott Smith - 1858 - 566 pages
...homes ? A house, uncheered by them, seems but a furnished sepulchre. We cannot live without them — " As unto the bow the cord is, So unto the man is woman...yet she follows ; Useless each, without the other." Night was now approaching, and the company left the grounds to return to the city. Here, as elsewhere,... | |
| Edward Duffield Neill - 1858 - 652 pages
...character. Their names are attached to the thriving counties of Ramsey, Rice, Sibley, and Steele. " As unto the bow, the cord is, So unto the man is the woman, Though she bends him, she obeys him, Though she draws him, yet she follows, Useless each... | |
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