 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...  The Strand Magazine - Page 95edited by - 1891Full view - About this book
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1874 - 384 pages
...INTRODUCTION. 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...wild reverberations, As of thunder in the mountains ? I should answer, I should tell you, ' ' From the forests and the prairies, From the great lakes of... | |
 | Flavius Josephus Littlejohn - Indians of North America - 1875 - 624 pages
...LITTLE.JOHN. 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...smoke of wigwams, With the rushing of great rivers, ****** I should answer, I should tell you, " From the forest and the prairies. From the great lakes... | |
 | Manchester Literary Club - Literature - 1875 - 370 pages
...with which the amorous breezes woo the meadows of yellow corn ripe for the harvest. It is heard in the Rushing of great rivers, With their frequent repetitions,...wild reverberations As of thunder in the mountains ; and you may hear it, too, in the thunder and in the rain breaking upon the thirsty earth. Throughout... | |
 | Robert Brown - 1876 - 364 pages
...steamers, be the same stream that leaped into life in the Northern Sierras, and, sweet with ' the odour 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,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1877 - 634 pages
...1855. INTRODUCTIOS. SHOULD you ask me, whence these stories ? Whence these legends and traditions, With the odours of the forest, With the dew and damp...wild reverberations, As of thunder in the mountains ? I should answer, I should tell you, " From the forest and the prairies, From the great lakes of the... | |
 | Henry Noble Day - English literature - 1877 - 564 pages
...HIAWATHA. SHOULD you ask me, whence these stories ? Whence these legends and traditions, With the odore of the forest, With the dew and damp of meadows, With...frequent repetitions, And their wild reverberations, Aa of thunder in the mountains ? 1 should answer, I should tell yon, "From the forests and the prairies,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1878 - 238 pages
...the Grand Sable. | i HOULD you ask me, whence these stories ? Whence these legends and traditions, With the odours of the forest, With the dew and damp...wild reverberations, As of thunder in the mountains ? I should answer, I should tell you, " From the forests and the prairies, From the great lakes of... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1878 - 442 pages
...INTRODUCTION. 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...wild reverberations, As of thunder in the mountains ? I should answer, I should tell you, ' ' From the forests and the prairies, From the great lakes of... | |
 | 1878 - 926 pages
...ALBERT HASTINGS MARKHAM, CAPTAIN, RN 1. " Should you ask me, Whence these stories. * • • • • With the odours of the forest, With the dew and damp...smoke of wigwams, With the rushing of great rivers ? I should answer, I should tell you, From the forests and the prairies." * I 'HE above words of Longfellow... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1878 - 660 pages
...1855. INTRODUCTION. SHOUID you ask me, whence these stories ? Whence these legends and traditions, With the odours of the forest, With the dew and damp...the curling smoke of wigwams, With the rushing of groat rivers, With their frequent repetitions, And their wild reverberations, As of thunder in the... | |
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