The Song of Hiawatha The Song of Hiawatha The Song of Hiawatha is an 1855 epic poem in trochaic tetrameter by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow that 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. Events in the story are set in the Pictured Rocks area on the south shore of Lake Superior. Longfellow's poem, though based on native oral traditions surrounding the figure of Manabozho, represents not a work of transmission but an original work of American Romantic literature. Longfellow's sources for the legends and ethnography
Hunkar (epic poem) Brahmaputra<br>" "Ganga and Yamuna - the nectar-swept streams<br>" "That flow to the blessed land<br>" "Are abundant with your melting compassion.<br>" "At the gates of that land,<br>" "You, the guardian of its borders,<br>" "Have challenged, 'You must cut off my head<br>" "Before you can trample over this land.<br>" "O pious sage, a great misfortune has fallen today<br>" "On that same land of piety!<br>" "Afflicted, the children are writhing<br>" "Bitten by countless snakes from four directions.<br>" "My king of mountains! My magnificent one!<br>" Hunkar (epic poem) Hunkar is an epic poem by Rashtrakavi Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar'. "Himalaya" is from the collection "Hunkar"