 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 951891Full view - About this book
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Literary Criticism - 1874 - 363 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 - History - 1875 - 614 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 - 1875
...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
...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 - Poetry - 1877 - 584 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 - Literary Criticism - 1877 - 539 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
...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
...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... | |
 | Norman Macleod, Donald Macleod - English essays - 1878
...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 - 1879 - 391 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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