Should you ask me, whence these stories? Whence these legends and traditions, With the odors of the forest, With the dew and damp of meadows, With the curling smoke of wigwams, With the rushing of great rivers, With their frequent repetitions, And their... Putnam's Monthly - Page 5851855Full view - About this book
| George Lansing Raymond - 1899 - 396 pages
...whence these stories, Whence these legends and traditions, With the odors of the forest. V, i . 1 1 the dew and damp of meadows, With the curling smoke...should tell you, " From the forests and the prairies." — Hiawatha : Longfellow. Then with deep sonorous clangor, Calmly answering their sweet anger, When... | |
| Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1900 - 392 pages
...which could thus be at once poetic and real. 1 Hiawatha is fresh and beautiful With the odors of the forest, With the dew and damp of meadows, With the...smoke of wigwams, With the rushing of great rivers. The mind of the childhood of a race is seen in the lovely personifications of the East Wind and the... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1914 - 734 pages
...the poem will be found in the Proffedingt of the Massachusetts Historical Society for April 13, 1R82. With the curling smoke of wigwams, With the rushing...forests and the prairies, From the great lakes of the Northland, From the laud of the Ojibways, From the land of the Dacotahs, From the mountains, moors,... | |
| Howard Benjamin Grose - 1914 - 1108 pages
...traditions, With the odors of the forest, With the dew and damp of meadows, With the curling of the wigwams, With the rushing of great rivers, With their...the mountains, I should answer, I should tell you, I repeat them as I heard them From the lips of Nawadaha, The musician, the sweet singer." CAN it be... | |
| 1914 - 414 pages
...miraculous yet human being, Hiawatha, — legends, as Longfellow so aptly puts it: «' With the odors of the forest, With the dew and damp of meadows, With the...smoke of wigwams, With the rushing of great rivers." A consideration of the readers by whom each poem is enjoyed brings before us strongly the vast difference... | |
| Mary Edwards Calhoun, Emma Leonora MacAlarney - 1915 - 670 pages
...Should you ask me, whence these stories ? Whence these legends and traditions, With the odors of the forest, With the dew and damp of meadows, With the...forests and the prairies, From the great lakes of the Northland, From the land of the Ojibways, From the land of the Dacotahs, From the mountains, moors,... | |
| Elsie De Cou Troup ("Mrs. Alexander C. Troup.") - 1916 - 102 pages
..."Should you ask me, whence these stories? Whence these legends and traditions, With the odors of the forest, With the dew and damp of meadows, With the...should tell you, "From the forests and the prairies." Indian life is such an important part I of Nebraska history that we must give a ^ brief sketch of the... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Valérie Wyngate - 1916 - 104 pages
...ask me, whence these stories ? Whence these legends and traditions, With the odours of the forest, With the curling smoke of wigwams, With the rushing of great rivers, And their wild reverberations As of thunder in the mountains ? I should answer, I should tell you,... | |
| Windham Thomas Wyndham-Quin Earl of Dunraven - 1917 - 348 pages
...steamers, be the same stream that leaped into life in the northern sierras, and sweet with "odor of the forest, with the dew and damp of meadows, with the curling smoke of wigwams," rushed through its "palisade of pine trees?" How utterly incongruous and out of place do we appear,... | |
| Harry Lyman Koopman - 1919 - 648 pages
...SHOULD you ask me, whence these stories ? Whence these legends and traditions, With the odors of the forest. With the dew and damp of meadows, With the...the mountains? I should answer, I should tell you, I' From the forests and the prairies, From the great lakes of the Northland, From the land of the Ojibways,... | |
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