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The Song of Hiawatha

by Henry W. Longfellow Henry W. Longfellow Contents Introductory Note Introduction The Peace-Pipe The Four Winds Hiawatha's Childhood Hiawatha and Mudjekeewis Hiawatha's Fasting…

The Song of Hiawatha: Introductory Note

Introduction Introductory Note 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…

The Song of Hiawatha: Introduction

Introductory Note 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 the…

The Song of Hiawatha: Vocabulary

Vocabulary Adjidau'mo, the red squirrel Ahdeek', the reindeer Ahmeek', the beaver Annemee'kee, the thunder Apuk'wa. a bulrush Baim-wa'wa, the sound of the thunder Bemah'gut, the grape-…

The Song of Hiawatha: The Peace-Pipe

The Four Winds The Peace-Pipe On the Mountains of the Prairie, On the great Red Pipe-stone Quarry, Gitche Manito, the mighty, He the Master of Life, descending, On the red crags of…

The Song of Hiawatha: Hiawatha's Wooing

Hiawatha and the Pearl-Feather Hiawatha's Wedding-Feast Hiawatha's Wooing "As unto the bow the cord is, So unto the man is woman; Though she bends him, she obeys him, Though she…

The Song of Hiawatha: Blessing the Cornfields

The Son of the Evening Star Picture-Writing Blessing the Cornfields Sing, O Song of Hiawatha, Of the happy days that followed, In the land of the Ojibways, In the pleasant land and…

The Song of Hiawatha: Picture-Writing

Blessing the Cornfields Hiawatha's Lamentation Picture-Writing In those days said Hiawatha, "Lo! how all things fade and perish! From the memory of the old men Pass away the great…