The Song of HiawathaThe Floating Press, 2009 M06 1 - 191 pages Longfellow wrote his epic poem The Song of Hiawatha in 1855. He based it on the Ojibway legends, which had been compiled by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft and his Ojibway wife Jane Schoolcraft. It tells the legend of Hiawatha and Minnehaha, his lover. |
Contents
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III Hiawathas Childhood | 35 |
IV Hiawatha and Mudjekeewis | 45 |
V Hiawathas Fasting | 58 |
VI Hiawathas Friends | 71 |
XII The Son of the Evening Star | 133 |
XIII Blessing the Cornfields | 149 |
XIV PictureWriting | 159 |
XV Hiawathas Lamentation | 167 |
XVI PauPukKeewis | 177 |
XVII The Hunting of PauPukKeewis | 188 |
XVIII The Death of Kwasind | 204 |
XIX The Ghosts | 210 |
VII Hiawathas Sailing | 79 |
VIII Hiawathas Fishing | 86 |
IX Hiawatha and the PearlFeather | 97 |
X Hiawathas Wooing | 110 |
XI Hiawathas WeddingFeast | 122 |
XX The Famine | 220 |
XXI The White Mans Foot | 228 |
XXII Hiawathas Departure | 238 |
Vocabulary | 249 |
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answered arrows beauty beaver beneath birds branches breath brother Called canoe changed Chibiabos coming cried Dance darkness daughter dead deer departed doorway earth eyes face Falls famine feathers fell figure fire fish follow forest Found garments Gitche green guests hand hear Heard heart heaven Hiawatha Homeward Iagoo Islands King Kwasind lakes land Laughing Water leaped leaves light Listen living lodge Looked magic maiden meadow mighty Minnehaha Mondamin Moon morning mountains Mudjekeewis Never night o'er old Nokomis Once Osseo painted pass Pau-Puk-Keewis pine-trees pleasant prairie rising river rose round rushes sailing Sang Saying shadows shining shouted sighing silence singing slowly songs spake speak Spirit Star stood strangers strong Summer sunshine Till tresses village voice waited Walked wampum warriors waves whispered wigwam wild wind Winter woman women wonder yellow young youth