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A mist was driving down the British Channel,The day was just begun,And through the window-panes, on floor and panel,Streamed the red autumn sun.It..

Under a spreading chestnut treeThe village smithy stands;The smith, a might man is he,With large and sinewy hands;And the muscles of his brawney..

Here rest the weary oar! -- soft airsBreathe out in the o'erarching sky;And Night!-- sweet Night -- serenely wearsA smile of peace; her noon is..

Slowly the hour-hand of the clock moves round;So slowly that no human eye hath powerTo see it move! Slowly in shine or showerThe painted ship above..

A Youth, light-hearted and content,I wander through the worldHere, Arab-like, is pitched my tentAnd straight again is furled.Yet oft I dream, that..

Have you read in the Talmud of old,In the Legends the Rabbins have toldOf the limitless realms of the air,--Have you read it,--the marvellous storyOf..

The tide rises, the tide falls,The twilight darkens, the curlew calls;Along the sea-sands damp and brownThe traveller hastens toward the town,And the..

Three Silences there are: the first of speech,The second of desire, the third of thought;This is the lore a Spanish monk, distraughtWith dreams and..

Three Kings came riding from far away,Melchior and Gaspar and Baltasar;Three Wise Men out of the East were they,And they travelled by night and they..

Longing already to search in and roundThe heavenly forest, dense and living-green,Which tempered to the eyes the newborn day,Withouten more delay I..

Forms of saints and kings are standingThe cathedral door above;Yet I saw but one among themWho hath soothed my soul with love.In his mantle,--wound..

The sea awoke at midnight from its sleep,And round the pebbly beaches far and wideI heard the first wave of the rising tideRush onward with..

Much it behovethEach one of mortals,That he his soul's journeyIn himself ponder,How deep it may be.When Death cometh,The bonds he breakethBy which..

X. 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 draws him, yet she..

Should you ask me, whence these stories?Whence these legends and traditions,With the odors of the forestWith the dew and damp of meadows,With the..

By the shore of Gitche Gumee,By the shining Big-Sea-Water,At the doorway of his wigwam,In the pleasant Summer morning,Hiawatha stood and waited.All..

In his lodge beside a river,Close beside a frozen river,Sat an old man, sad and lonely.White his hair was as a snow-drift;Dull and low his fire was..

Oh the long and dreary Winter!Oh the cold and cruel Winter!Ever thicker, thicker, thickerFroze the ice on lake and river,Ever deeper, deeper..

Far and wide among the nationsSpread the name and fame of Kwasind;No man dared to strive with Kwasind,No man could compete with Kwasind.But the..

Full of wrath was HiawathaWhen he came into the village,Found the people in confusion,Heard of all the misdemeanors,All the malice and the..

You shall hear how Pau-Puk-Keewis,He, the handsome Yenadizze,Whom the people called the Storm-Fool,Vexed the village with disturbance;You shall hear..

In those days the Evil Spirits,All the Manitos of mischief,Fearing Hiawatha's wisdom,And his love for Chibiabos,Jealous of their faithful..

Never stoops the soaring vultureOn his quarry in the desert,On the sick or wounded bison,But another vulture, watchingFrom his high aerial..

In those days said Hiawatha,'Lo! how all things fade and perish!From the memory of the old menPass away the great traditions,The achievements of the..

Sing, O Song of Hiawatha,Of the happy days that followed,In the land of the Ojibways,In the pleasant land and peaceful!Sing the mysteries of..