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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!
By the shore of Gitchie Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, At the doorway of his wigwam, In the pleasant Summer morning, Hiawatha stood and waited. All the air was full of freshness, All the earth was bright and joyous, And before him through the sunshine, Westward toward the neighboring forest.
Apr 1, 1991 · The Song of Hiawatha is based on the legends and stories of many North American Indian tribes, but especially those of the Ojibway Indians of northern Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. They were collected by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, the reknowned historian, pioneer explorer, and geologist.
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,
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (born February 27, 1807, Portland, Massachusetts [now in Maine], U.S.—died March 24, 1882, Cambridge, Massachusetts) was the most popular American poet in the 19th century, known for such works as The Song of Hiawatha (1855) and “Paul Revere’s Ride” (1863).
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