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Every tree-top had its shadow, Motionless beneath the water. From the brow of Hiawatha. Gone was every trace of sorrow, As the fog from off the water, As the mist from off the meadow. With a smile of joy and triumph, With a look of exultation, As of one who in a vision.
The Song of Hiawatha is an 1855 epic poem in trochaic tetrameter by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow which features Native American characters. The epic relates the fictional adventures of an Ojibwe warrior named Hiawatha and the tragedy of his love for Minnehaha, a Dakota woman.
Love the wind among the branches, And the rain-shower and the snow-storm, And the rushing of great rivers. Through their palisades of pine-trees, And the thunder in the mountains, Whose innumerable echoes. Flap like eagles in their eyries;--. Listen to these wild traditions, To this Song of Hiawatha!
‘The Song of Hiawatha’ by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow sets the stage for the epic poem, revealing that the tales come from the rich tapestry of the natural world and lands of indigenous tribes like the Ojibways and Dacotahs.
The Song of Hiawatha [excerpt] Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. 1807 –. 1882. The Death of Minnehaha. All day long roved Hiawatha. In that melancholy forest, Through the shadow of whose thickets,
In Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: The Song of Hiawatha, Paul Revere’s Ride, and other poetry … as his medium, he fashioned The Song of Hiawatha (1855). Its appeal to the public was immediate. Hiawatha is an Ojibwa Indian who, after various mythic feats, becomes his people’s leader and marries Minnehaha before departing for the Isles of the ...
In a memorable rhythmic beat, this work of fiction tells the legend of Hiawatha, an Ojibwe leader with supernatural powers. It tells of his birth and upbringing, his many adventures, his devotion to his people, and the tragedy of his love for Minnehaha, a Dakota woman.
