 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
 | Albert Newton Raub - English language - 1887 - 332 pages
...Hiawatha: "Should you ask me whence these stories, Whenc^ 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," etc. STANZAS. A Stanza consists of a number of lines taken together... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1887 - 360 pages
...stories '• Whence these legends and traditions, With the odors of the forest, With the dew and damp ot meadows. With the curling smoke of wigwams, With the...wild reverberations. As of thunder in the mountains ? I should answer, I should tell yon, "From the forests and the prairies, From the great lakes of the... | |
 | Ohio - 1906 - 562 pages
...you ask me, whence these stories? Whence the legends and traditions, With odors of the forest, And the dew and damp of meadows, With the curling smoke...rushing of great rivers, With their frequent repetitions * * * I should answer, I should tell you, I repeat them as I heard them. THE OHIO INDIANS. It is not... | |
 | Charles Francis Richardson - American literature - 1888 - 476 pages
...age. 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... | |
 | Elijah Middlebrook Haines - Indians of North America - 1888 - 832 pages
...follow : "Should you ask me, whence these stones? 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, etc. EXAMPLE OF NATIVE INDIAN SONGS. The following specimens of... | |
 | Ontario. Legislative Assembly - Ontario - 1889 - 900 pages
...writer's pen or the painter's brush, With tho odord of the forests, With the damp and dew of meadowa, With the curling smoke of wigwams, With the rushing of great rivers, Aud their wild reverberations, As of thunder in the mountain!. 2* (FO) xvii. British Columbia is certainly... | |
 | Charles Rufus Skinner - Arbor Day - 1890 - 528 pages
...From the red stone of the quarry With the curling smoke of wigwams, With his hand he broke a fragment, With the rushing of great rivers, With their frequent...wild reverberations, As of thunder in the mountains? I should answer, I should tell you, " From the forests and the prairies." ***** Should you ask where... | |
 | Charles Alphonso Smith - English poetry - 1894 - 92 pages
...lines : " 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," etc. Professor Robertson well says* that if the construction... | |
 | 1897 - 136 pages
...poem : "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 forest and the prairies, From the Great Lakes of the... | |
 | Fred Lewis Pattee - History - 1896 - 496 pages
...forest; the fantastic mythology of a fast-fading race; the " 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." In Hiawatha Longfellow again introduced to English readers a new metre, — the eight-syllabled trochaic... | |
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