The Poetical Works, Volumen2Houghton Mifflin, 1886 |
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Acadian aloft answered arrows beauty beaver behold beneath Big-Sea-Water birch canoe bosom breath Captain Chibiabos cornfields cried Dacotahs Dance darkness deer doorway Evangeline eyes face father fell floating forest Gabriel gazed Gitche Gitche Gumee gleamed Grand-Pré guests hand hear heard heart heaven Homeward Iagoo Indian John Alden Kenabeek Kwasind lake Lake Superior land Laughing Water leaped leaves Line listened little Hiawatha lodge look loud magic maiden Manito Mayflower meadow mighty Miles Standish Minneha Minnehaha Mondamin moon morning mountains Mudjekeewis Nahma night o'er old Nokomis Opechee Osseo passed Pau-Puk-Keewis pine-trees pleasant Plymouth poem prairie Priscilla river rose round rushes sailed Sang shadow shining shore shouted silent singing slowly smile snow 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 wild wind words yellow
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Página 133 - 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 1 " Lulled him into slumber, singing,
Página 21 - West and south there were fields of flax, and orchards and cornfields Spreading afar and unfenced o'er the plain; and away to the northward Blomidon rose, and the forests old, and aloft on the mountains Sea-fogs pitched their tents, and mists from the mighty Atlantic Looked on the happy valley, but ne'er from their station descended.
Página 183 - 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 102 - And, with light in her looks, she entered the chambers of sickness. Noiselessly moved about the assiduous, careful attendants, Moistening the feverish lip, and the aching brow, and in silence Closing the sightless eyes of the dead, and concealing their faces, Where on their pallets they lay, like drifts of snow by the roadside.
Página 22 - Flax for the gossiping looms, whose noisy shuttles within doors Mingled their sound with the whir of the wheels and the songs of the maidens. Solemnly down the street came the parish priest, and the children Paused in their play to kiss the hand he extended to bless them: Reverend walked he among them; and up rose matrons and maidens, Hailing his slow approach with words of affectionate welcome.
Página 344 - ... the wedding, as that of Ruth and of Boaz. Softly the youth and the maiden repeated the words of betrothal, Taking each other for husband and wife in the Magistrate's presence, After the Puritan way, and the laudable custom of Holland. Fervently then, and devoutly, the excellent Elder of Plymouth Prayed for the hearth and the home, that were founded that day in affection, Speaking of life and of death, and imploring Divine benedictions.
Página 263 - Cried he with his face uplifted In that bitter hour of anguish, " Give your children food, O father! Give us food, or we must perish! Give me food for Minnehaha, For my dying Minnehaha!
Página 299 - Open wide on her lap lay the well-worn psalm-book of Ainsworth, Printed in Amsterdam, the words and the music together, Rough-hewn, angular notes, like stones in the wall of a churchyard, Darkened and overhung by the running vine of the verses. Such was the book from whose pages she sang the old Puritan anthem...
Página 137 - 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 115 - There he sang of Hiawatha, Sang the Song of Hiawatha, Sang his wondrous birth and being, How he prayed and how he fasted, How he lived, and toiled, and suffered, That the tribes of men might prosper, That he might advance his people!