 | 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 - 714 pages
...story. Tho song of Hiawatha opens with an introduction explanatory of the sources of the legends. " Should you ask me, whence these stories ^ Whence these...in the mountains ? I should answer, I should tell yon, ' From the forests and the prairies. From the great lakes of the Northland, From the land of the... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 346 pages
...THE WHITE MAN'S TOOT ... 272 XXII. HIAWATHA'S DEPASTURE . . . .284 NOTES 297 THE SONG OF HIAWATHA. SHOULD you ask me, whence these stories ? Whence these...of wigwams, With the rushing of great rivers, With then- frequent repetitions, And their wild reverberations, As of thunder in the mountains ? I should... | |
 | George R. Graham, Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Jacobs Peterson, Rufus Wilmot Griswold, Robert Taylor Conrad, Joseph Ripley Chandler, Bayard Taylor - 1855 - 632 pages
...introductory lines : "Should you ask me, whence these stories? Whence these legende and tradition!, With the odors of the forest, With the dew and damp...rivers, With their frequent repetitions, And their wild reverberation», As of thunder in the mountains? " I should answer, I should tell yon, ' From the foreste... | |
 | 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 - 670 pages
...ocean-billows ; Birds, by singing in the branches, And the tree-top spoke in whispers. PRELUDE OF HIAWATHA. Should you ask me, whence these stories ? Whence these...With the rushing of great rivers, With their frequent repetitious And their wild roverbations, As of thunder in the mountains ? I should answer, I should... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1856 - 346 pages
...French translation of it, Hitloire de la Medecine, II. 354. THE SONG OF HIAWATHA 1855. INTRODUCTION. SHOULD you ask me, whence these stories? Whence these...meadows, With the curling smoke of wigwams, With the rushiiig of great rivers, With their frequent repetitions, And their wild reverberations, As of thunder... | |
 | 1856 - 1492 pages
...these stories ? Whence these legends and traditloiia, With the odours of the forest, With the dew aud damp of meadows, With the curling smoke of wigwams,...great rivers, With their frequent repetitions, And ihtir wild reverberations, As of thunder in the mountains ? I should answer, I should toll you, ••From... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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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... 
