The Song of Hiawatha: X (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Poem)
X. Hiawatha's Wooing "As unto the bow the cord is, So unto the man is woman, Though she bends him, ...
X. Hiawatha's Wooing "As unto the bow the cord is, So unto the man is woman, Though she bends him, ...
As a fond mother, when the day is o'er, Leads by the hand her little child to bed, Half willing, ...
Maiden! with the meek, brown eyes, In whose orbs a shadow lies Like the dusk in evening skies! Thou whose ...
BOOK I Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn, Far from ...
Her imaginary playmate was a grown-up In sea-coal satin. The flame-blue glances, The wings gauzy as the membrane that the ...
As though it were reluctant to be day, .......Morning deploys a scale .......Of rarities in gray, And winter settles down ...
Christ living incarnate walking the world together alive today, beating inside of us We are his messengers the sheep of ...
Ace of spades, in living flesh, silken skin of the shy tulip Petals praying clasped together for the warming rays ...
Words of history, of power his words reminding us of the work to be done, needs yet unmet, vision and ...
HOWEVER exquisite we BEAUTY find, It satiates sense, and palls upon the mind: Brown bread as well as white must ...
All crying, 'We will go with you, O Wind!' The foliage follow him, leaf and stem; But a sleep oppresses ...
I LEGEND Long ago Apollo called to Aristæus, youngest of the shepherds, Saying, "I will make you keeper of my ...
We Cover Thee -- Sweet Face -- Not that We tire of Thee -- But that Thyself fatigue of Us ...
As Children bid the Guest "Good Night" And then reluctant turn -- My flowers raise their pretty lips -- Then ...
Alone and in a Circumstance Reluctant to be told A spider on my reticence Assiduously crawled And so much more ...
Our journey had advanced -- Our feet were almost come To that odd Fork in Being's Road -- Eternity -- ...
'Tis not that Dying hurts us so -- 'Tis Living -- hurts us more -- But Dying -- is a ...
And the Piper dreams as he pipes up in his mind colours in choral horizons distant, of courtliness dimmed in ...
In a still room at hush of dawn, My Love and I lay side by side And heard the roaming ...
The West Village by then was changing; before long the rundown brownstones at its farthest edge would have slipped into ...
I had wanted a quiet testament and I had wanted, among other things, a song. That was to be of ...
The First Voice HE trilled a carol fresh and free, He laughed aloud for very glee: There came a breeze ...
I woke up, it was the house where I was born. It was raining softly in all the rooms, I ...
'Tis strange to think, there was a time When mirth was not an empty name, When laughter really cheered the ...
Who ran away from his Nurse and was eaten by a Lion There was a Boy whose name was Jim; ...
'Twas after dread Pultowa's day, When fortune left the royal Swede - Around a slaughtered army lay, No more to ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
I 'Tis done -- but yesterday a King! And arm'd with Kings to strive -- And now thou art a ...
Ill lay he long, upon this last return, unvisited. The doctors put everything in the hospital into reluctant Henry and ...
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