Ye who love a nation's legends, Love the ballads of a people, That like voices from afar off Call to us to pause and listen, Speak in tones so plain and childlike, Scarcely can the ear distinguish Whether they are sung or spoken... American Monthly Knickerbocker - Page 626edited by - 1855Full view - About this book
| 1856 - 504 pages
...Listen to these wild traditions, To this Song of Hiawatha! Ye who love a nation's legends, Love the ballads of a people, That like voices from afar off...Legend, To this song of Hiawatha ! Ye whose hearts ore fresh and simple, Who have faith in God and Nature, Who believe, that in all ages Every human heart... | |
| 1855 - 716 pages
...in wh,ch the poet makes a skillful apology for his metre. " Ye who love a nation's legends, Love the ballads of a people, That like voices from afar off Call to us to pause and listen, Speak in tones to plain and child -I ,ke, Scarcely can the ear distinguish Whether they are tunff or tpoken ; —... | |
| American literature - 1855 - 684 pages
...in which the poet mokes a skillful apology for his metre. " Ye who lovo n nation's legends, Love the ballads of a people, That like voices from afar off Call to us to pause and listen, Speak in tones to plain and child-like, Scarcely can the ear dittinguish Whether they arc sun" or tpokcn; — Listen... | |
| American literature - 1855 - 682 pages
...in which the poet makes a skillful apology for his metre. " Ye who love a nation's legends, Love the ballads of a people, That like voices from afar off Call to us to pause and listen, Speak in iones so plain and child-like, Scarcely ran the ear disķiHguiķilt W'hctlu'r they arc sung or fpokcn;... | |
| North American review - 1856 - 610 pages
...external form, is made in the introduction, and is complete. " Ye who love a nation's legends, Love the ballads of a people, That, like voices from afar off,...Speak in tones so plain and childlike Scarcely can the car distinguish Whether they arc sung or spoken ; — Listen to this Indian Legend, To this Song of... | |
| Abel Stevens, James Floy - Periodicals - 1856 - 600 pages
...nation's legends, Love the ballads of the people, That like voices from afiu- off Call to ue to ранге and listen. Speak in tones so plain and childlike, Scarcely can the ear distinguish Whether they are ьип^ or ķ-poken — Listen to this Ir.tlian leēend, To this s^ng of Hiawatha. " Vo whose hearts... | |
| HODGES SMITH - 1856 - 772 pages
...Listen to these wild traditions, To this Song of Hiawatha! Y* who love a nation's legends, Love the ballads of a people. That like voices from afar off Call to us to panse and listen, Speak in tones so plain and childlike, Scarcely can the ear distinguish Whether they... | |
| HODGES SMITH - 1856 - 772 pages
...Listen to these wild traditions, To this Song of Hiawatha ! Y* who love a nation's legends, Love the ballads of a people. That like voices from afar off Call to us to panse and listen, Speak in tones so plain and childlike, Scarcely can the ear distinguish Whether they... | |
| Edward Newman - Insects - 1857 - 106 pages
...Devonshire St., Bishopsgate. THE INSECT HUNTERS; OB, Ill c r * * * Ballads that * * * Speak in tones no plain and childlike, Scarcely can the ear distinguish Whether they are sung or spoken. LONGFELLOW. LONDON: EDWARD NEWMAN, 9, DEVONSHIRE STREET, BISHOPSGATE. Just as the butterfly, child... | |
| John Beauchamp Jones - Kentucky - 1859 - 364 pages
...ENCOUNTERS WITH WILD BEASTS AND RATTLESNAKES, Ac. Ye Tfho love a nation's legendj, Love the ballads ot a people, That like voices from afar off Call to us to pause and listen,— ^f Listen to this Indian Legend I Song of Slaw 14. BY JB JONJBS, AUTHOR OT " WILD WESTERM SCENES,"... | |
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