Hiawatha (sculpture) Hiawatha (sculpture) Hiawath is a 19th century sculpture executed in marble by American sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens. The work, which depicts the Iroquois leader Hiawatha, is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Augustus Saint-Gaudens sculpted his interpretation of the famed Iroquois leader between 1872 and 1874. He was inspired to create the work by "The Song of Hiawatha", an 1855 epic poem by poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Longfellow's poem was well received by American audiences, and the epic work resulted in a rekindling of interest in Hiawatha and the waxing days of the Iroquois Confederacy. The poem is
Hunkar (epic poem) Hunkar (epic poem) Hunkar is an epic poem by Rashtrakavi Ramdhari Singh 'Dinkar'. "Himalaya" is from the collection "Hunkar" (A Roar) which has been described by a critic as "burning coals in the shade of playful rainbow". In this poem, the loftiness of the Himalayas reflects metaphorically the Mahatma, whom he invokes to rise to action, leaving the path of the mystical meditation of the ascetic. Few stanzas in translation are: "My king of mountains! My magnificent one!<br>" "Radiant embodiment of great glory!<br>" "Flame of fierce, accumulated prowess!<br>" "Snowy diadem of my motherland!<br>" "Effulgent brow of my Bharat!<br>" "My king