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Can it be the sun descendingO'er the level plain of water?Or the Red Swan floating, flying,Wounded by the magic arrow,Staining all the waves with..

You shall hear how Pau-Puk-Keewis,How the handsome YenadizzeDanced at Hiawatha's wedding;How the gentle Chibiabos,He the sweetest of musicians,Sang..

'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 follows,Useless each without..

Forth upon the Gitche Gumee,On the shining Big-Sea-Water,With his fishing-line of cedar,Of the twisted bark of cedar,Forth to catch the sturgeon..

'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 valley!I a light canoe..

Two good friends had Hiawatha,Singled out from all the others,Bound to him in closest union,And to whom he gave the right handOf his heart, in joy..

You shall hear how HiawathaPrayed and fasted in the forest,Not for greater skill in hunting,Not for greater craft in fishing,Not for triumphs in the..

On the shores of Gitche Gumee,Of the shining Big-Sea-Water,Stood Nokomis, the old woman,Pointing with her finger westward,O'er the water pointing..

Out of childhood into manhoodNow had grown my Hiawatha,Skilled in all the craft of hunters,Learned in all the lore of old men,In all youthful sports..

'Honor be to Mudjekeewis!'Cried the warriors, cried the old men,When he came in triumph homewardWith the sacred Belt of Wampum,From the regions of..

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..

Can it be the sun descendingO'er the level plain of water?Or the Red Swan floating, flying,Wounded by the magic arrow,Staining all the waves with..

Beside the ungathered rice he lay,His sickle in his hand;His breast was bare, his matted hairWas buried in the sand.Again, in the mist and shadow of..

Loud he sang the psalm of David!He, a Negro and enslaved,Sang of Israel's victory,Sang of Zion, bright and free.In that hour, when night is..

In dark fens of the Dismal SwampThe hunted Negro lay;He saw the fire of the midnight camp,And heard at times a horse's trampAnd a bloodhound's..

"Speak! speak! thou fearful guest!Who, with thy hollow breastStill in rude armor drest,Comest to daunt me!Wrapt not in eastern balms,But with thy..

Black are the moors before Kazan,And their stagnant waters smell of blood:I said in my heart, with horse and man,I will swim across this shallow..

Up soared the lark into the air,A shaft of song, a wingéd prayer,As if a soul released from painWere flying back to heaven again.St. Francis heard:..

As one who, walking in the twilight gloom,Hears round about him voices as it darkens,And seeing not the forms from which they come,Pauses from time..

The sea hath its pearls,The heaven hath its stars;But my heart, my heart,My heart hath its love.Great are the sea and the heaven;Yet greater is my..

My way is on the bright blue sea,My sleep upon its rocking tide;And many an eye has followed meWhere billows clasp the worn seaside.My plumage bears..

In that building, long and low,With its windows all a-row,Like the port-holes of a hulk,Human spiders spin and spin,Backward down their threads so..

In that desolate land and lone,Where the Big Horn and YellowstoneRoar down their mountain path,By their fires the Sioux ChiefsMuttered their woes and..

Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State!Sail on, O Union, strong and great!Humanity with all its fearsWith all the hopes of future years,Is hanging..

There is a Reaper whose name is Death,And, with his sickle keen,He reaps the bearded grain at a breath,And the flowers that grow..