Poetical Works: Evangeline, The song of Hiawatha and The courtship of Miles StandishHoughton, Mifflin, 1904 |
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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 descending doorway Evangeline eyes face father fell forest Frederic Remington Gabriel garments gazed Gitche Gitche Gumee Gleamed Grand-Pré guests hand heard heart heaven hexameters Hiawatha Homeward Iagoo Indian John Alden Kenabeek Kwasind lake land Laughing Water leaped Line listened little Hiawatha lodge looked magic maiden maize Manito meadow mighty Miles Standish 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 smoke snow song SONG OF HIAWATHA sorrow sound spake Spirit Star stood sturgeon sunshine sweet tresses village voice Wabasso waited wampum war-club warriors Wenonah West-Wind whispered wigwam wind women wonder words yellow
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Seite 266 - NEVER stoops the soaring vulture On his quarry in the desert, On the sick or wounded bison, But another vulture, watching From his high aerial look-out, Sees the downward plunge, and follows; And a third pursues the second, Coming from the invisible ether, First a speck, and then a vulture, Till the air is dark with pinions.
Seite 22 - Fairer was she when, on Sunday morn, while the bell from its turret Sprinkled with holy sounds the air, as the priest with his hyssop Sprinkles the congregation, and scatters blessings upon them...
Seite 146 - Up the oak-tree, close beside him, Sprang the squirrel, Adjidaumo, In and out among the branches, Coughed and chattered from the oak-tree, Laughed, and said between his laughing, "Do not shoot me, Hiawatha!" And the rabbit from his pathway Leaped aside, and at a distance Sat erect upon his haunches, Half in fear and half in frolic, Saying to the little hunter, "Do not shoot me, Hiawatha!
Seite 172 - Long they lived in peace together, Spake with naked hearts together, Pondering much and much contriving How the tribes of men might prosper.
Seite 275 - Wrapped in furs and armed for hunting, With his mighty bow of ash-tree, With his quiver full of arrows, With his mittens, Minjekahwun, Into the vast and vacant forest On his snow-shoes strode he forward.
Seite 195 - Gravely then said old Nokomis : " Bring not here an idle maiden, Bring not here a useless woman, Hands unskilful, feet unwilling ; Bring a wife with nimble fingers, Heart and hand that move together, Feet that run on willing errands! " Smiling answered Hiawatha: " In the land of the Dacotahs Lives the Arrow-maker's daughter, Minnehaha, Laughing Water, Handsomest of all the women. I will bring her to your wigwam, She shall run upon your errands, Be your starlight, moonlight, firelight, Be the sunlight...
Seite 286 - I beheld the westward marches Of the unknown, crowded nations. All the land was full of people, Restless, struggling, toiling, striving, Speaking many tongues, yet feeling But one heart-beat in their bosoms. In the woodlands rang their axes, Smoked their towns in all the valleys, Over all the lakes and rivers Rushed their great canoes of thunder.
Seite 144 - Saw the moon rise from the water Rippling, rounding from the water, Saw the flecks and shadows on it, Whispered, "What is that, Nokomis ?" And the good Nokomis answered : " Once a warrior, very angry, Seized his grandmother, and threw her Up into the sky at midnight ; Right against the moon he threw her ; 'T is her body that you see there." Saw the rainbow in the heaven, In the eastern sky, the rainbow, Whispered,
Seite 145 - ... Where they hid themselves in Winter, Talked with them whene'er he met them, Called them " Hiawatha's Chickens." Of all beasts he learned the language, Learned their names and all their secrets, 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
Seite 320 - Till at length she exclaimed, interrupting the ominous silence : "If the great Captain of Plymouth is so very eager to wed me. Why does he not come himself, and take the trouble to woo me? "° If I am not worth the wooing, I surely am not worth the winning!