 | 1856 - 706 pages
...German translation), into English of the same metre, which is also that of the original: — HIAWATHA. SHOULD you ask me, whence these stories ? Whence these legends and traditions, With the odours of the forest, With the dew and damp of meadows, With the curling smoke of wigwams, With the... | |
 | 1855 - 682 pages
...story. The song of Hiawatha opens with an introduction explanatory of tho sources of tho legends. " Should you ask me, whence these stories ? Whence these legends and traditions, With the odors of tho forest, With the dew and damp of meadows, With the curling smoke of wigwams, With the rushing of... | |
 | 1856 - 542 pages
...debarred from, new impressions. A few lines from the Preface show the poet's view of his task : — ' Should you ask me whence these stories? Whence" these legends and traditions, With the odours of the forest, With the dew and damp of meadows, With the curling smoke of wigwams, With the... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1856 - 810 pages
...some good By us not understood ! THE SONG OF HIAWATHA. 1855. THE SONG OF HIAWATHA. INTRODUCTION.51 SHOULD you ask me, whence these stories ? Whence these legends and traditions, With the odours of the forest, With the dew and damp of meadows, With the curling smoke of wigwams, With the... | |
 | Joseph Hatton - 1861 - 230 pages
..." Suffer little children to come unto Me, and forbid them not." A THOUSAND YEARS HENCE. Should yon ask me whence these stories? Whence these legends and traditions, With the odours of the forest, With the dew and damp of meadows, With the curling smoke of wigwams, With the... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1862 - 548 pages
...God's minister, And labours for some good By us not understood ! THE SONG OF HIAWATHA. INTRODUCTION.5i SHOULD you ask me, whence these stories ? Whence these legends and traditions, With the odours of the forest, With the dew and damp of meadows, With the curling smoke of wigwams, With the... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1864 - 712 pages
...Where no foot has left its traces ; Let us turn and wander thither. THE SONG OF HIAWATHA. INTRODUCTION. SHOULD you ask me, whence these stories? Whence these legends and traditions, With the odours of the forest, With the dew and damp of meadows, With the curling smoke of wigwams, With the... | |
 | 418 pages
...Hiawatha," the Redman's Epic, a poern throughout in trochaic measure, like the " Leebia" of Catullus : — " Should you ask me whence these stories ? Whence these legends and traditions, "With the odours of the forest, With the dew and damp of meadows. With the curling smoke of wigwams, With the... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1868 - 410 pages
...southern shore of Lake Superior, in the region between the Pictured Rocks and the Grand Sable.] oz SHOULD you ask me, whence these stories? Whence these legends and traditions, With the odours of the forest, With the dew and damp of meadows, With the curling smoke of wigwams, With the... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1870 - 642 pages
...the southern shore of Lake Superior, in the region between the Pictured Rocks and the Grand Sable. SHOULD you ask me, whence these stories? Whence these legends and traditions, With the odours of the forest, With the dew and damp of meadows, With the curling smoke of wigwams, With the... | |
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SHOULD you ask me, whence these stories? Whence these legends and traditions, With the odours 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... 
