Search

Search results

Displaying 51 - 60

The Song of Hiawatha: Hiawatha's Sailing

Hiawatha's Friends Hiawatha's Fishing Hiawatha's Sailing "Give me of your bark, O Birch-tree! Of your yellow bark, O Birch-tree! Growing by the rushing river, Tall and stately in…

The Song of Hiawatha: Hiawatha's Fishing

Hiawatha's Sailing Hiawatha and the Pearl-Feather Hiawatha's Fishing Forth upon the Gitche Gumee, On the shining Big-Sea-Water, With his fishing-line of cedar, Of the twisted bark…

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…

Jones, Casey

(Encyclopedia) Jones, Casey, 1864–1900, American locomotive engineer celebrated in ballad and song, probably b. Jordan, Fulton co., Ky. His real name was John Luther Jones, but at the age of 17 he…

Chanel, Coco

(Encyclopedia) Chanel, Coco (Gabrielle Bonheur Chanel)Chanel, Cocoshənĕlˈ [key], 1883–1971, French fashion designer b. Saumur. She established a millinery shop in Deauville in 1909, founded her first…

Henry V

Henry V was the great warrior king of medieval England whose brief reign included his conquest of most of Normandy (northern France). Henry was a skilled military strategist who died before…