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The Song of Hiawatha
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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I sing the Song of Hiawatha,
Brave of heart and strong of arm.
Daughter’s son of old Nokomis,
Fathered by the harsh West Wind.
With its regular, beating rhythm, the Song of Hiawatha has often been parodied, but in truth, it is a powerful, emotional epic; a hero’s life, his loves and suffering. The legends and traditions of the North American Indian swirl together through the tale like a mountain stream, tumbling white over the rocks, and caressing the mossy tree roots.
I sing the Song of Hiawatha,
Brave of heart and strong of arm.
Daughter’s son of old Nokomis,
Fathered by the harsh West Wind.
With its regular, beating rhythm, the Song of Hiawatha has often been parodied, but in truth, it is a powerful, emotional epic; a hero’s life, his loves and suffering. The legends and traditions of the North American Indian swirl together through the tale like a mountain stream, tumbling white over the rocks, and caressing the mossy tree roots.
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By the still, transparent water;
45Saw the sturgeon, Nahma, leaping,
Scattering drops like beads of wampum,
Saw the yellow perch, the Sahwa,
Like a sunbeam in the water,
Saw the pike, the Maskenozha,
50And the herring, Okahahwis,
And the Shawgashee, the craw-fish!
"Master of Life!" he cried, desponding,
"Must our lives depend on these things?"
On the fourth day of his fasting
55In his lodge he lay exhausted;
From his couch of leaves and branches
Gazing with half-open eyelids,
Full of shadowy dreams and visions,
On the dizzy, swimming landscape,[Pg 62]
60On the gleaming of the water,
On the splendor of the sunset.
And he saw a youth approaching,
Dressed in garments green and yellow,
Coming through the purple twilight,
65Through the splendor of the sunset;
Plumes of green bent o'er his forehe. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
I had never read this classic epic poem written in 1855 and I enjoyed reading this with a small group. over a month. Hiawatha was a stereotypical hero in the epic tradition and the poem follows his journey. There were lovely descriptions especially of animals and the environment. I love waterfalls a
This is a most excellent poem. I recommend it to all who can read.
I have loved the rhythm of this poem since I was a kid. I could read it over and over and over.
A great Indian epic poem.
First published in 1855, this is one of Longfellow's longer poems; but the 245 pages of actual text in the edition I read (which was the 1898 printing by Thomas Y. Crowell and Co.) have wide margins and a good deal of white space, so the real length is much less than the page count might suggest. Re
I liked this 'song' until the last 'refrain'. The way Hiawatha left his people (and who he tells them to 'follow') did not make sense to me. Seemed to me a hidden nod to manifest destiny; I am not a Henry Wadsworth Longfellow scholar so I will not make this a definitive statement.