| 1911 - 322 pages
...have? Mix blue and red. What color now? Mix blue and yellow. What color now? "Hiawatha saw the rainbow, In the eastern sky the rainbow, Whispered, 'What is that, Nokomis?' And the good Nokomis answered: Tis the heaven of flowers you see there. All the wild flowers of the forest, All the lilies of the... | |
| 1856 - 506 pages
...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 ; 'Tia her body that you see there.' " This is perhaps a fair average specimen of the contents of the... | |
| 1856 - 332 pages
...one or two descriptions of natural objects beautifully poetical. Take, for example, the following: Saw the rainbow in the heaven, In the Eastern sky, the rainbow Whispered, " Wh'nt is that Xokomisr" 'Tis (he hen veil of flowers you see there; All the wild flowers of the forest,... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - 1857 - 242 pages
...his grandmother, and threw her Up into the sky at^midnight; Right against the moon he threw her; 'Tis her body that you see there ; " — Saw the rainbow...is that Nokomis ? " And the good Nokomis answered, " 'Tis the heaven of flowers you see there ; All the wild flowers of the forest, All the lilies of... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - 1858 - 240 pages
..." 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; 'Tis her body that you see there;" — Saw the rainbow in the heaven, In the eastern sky the rainbow... | |
| George Stillman Hillard - 1859 - 236 pages
...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; "Pis her body that you see there;"— Saw the rainbow in the heaven, In the eastern sky the rainbow;... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1859 - 724 pages
...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 ; 'Tis her body that you see there." Saw the rainbow in the heaven, In the eastern sky, the rainbow,... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1862 - 548 pages
...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 ; 'Tis her body that you see there." Saw the rainbow in the heaven, In the eastern sky, the rainbow,... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1864 - 712 pages
...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 ; Tis her body that you see there." Saw the rainbow in the heaven, In the eastern sky, the rainbow,... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1868 - 410 pages
...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 ; 'Tis her body that you sec there." Saw the rainbow in the heaven, In the eastern sky the rainbow,... | |
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