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The Song of Hiawatha is an 1855 epic poem in trochaic tetrameter by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow which features Native American characters. The epic relates the fictional adventures of an Ojibwe warrior named Hiawatha and the tragedy of his love for Minnehaha, a Dakota woman.
Then the generous Hiawatha. Led the strangers to his wigwam, Seated them on skins of bison, Seated them on skins of ermine, And the careful old Nokomis. Brought them food in bowls of basswood, Water brought in birchen dippers, And the calumet, the peace-pipe, Filled and lighted for their smoking.
From roughly 1877 until his death his output of poetry was constant. In 1881 he founded and edited Loquela (1881–95), a philological review, and in 1886 he published a masterly translation of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ’s poem The Song of Hiawatha.
The Song of Hiawatha (full name: Scenes from The Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow), Op. 30, is a trilogy of cantatas written by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor between 1898 and 1900. The first part, Hiawatha's Wedding Feast, was particularly famous for many years and made the composer's name known throughout the world.
The Song of Hiawatha. Should you ask me, whence these stories? Whence these legends and traditions, With the odors of the forest. With the dew and damp of meadows, With the curling smoke of wigwams, With the rushing of great rivers, With their frequent repetitions, And their wild reverberations.
The Song of Hiawatha is a trilogy of cantatas by Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, set to the lines of US poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. It is a choral affair, with solo interjections from a select group of principals, Hiawatha chief among them.
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Complete summary of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's The Song of Hiawatha. eNotes plot summaries cover all the significant action of The Song of Hiawatha.
