The Feast Of The Virgins and Other Poems

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Author

Gordon, Hanford Lennox, 1836-1920

Title

The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems

Credits

Produced by Eric Eldred, Susan Skinner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. Produced from images generously made available by the Canadiana.org.

Language

English

LoC Class

PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature

Subject

Dakota Indians -- Poetry

Category

Text

eBook-No.

15205

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15205

Release Date

February 28, 2005

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE FEAST OF THE VIRGINS
2. 2.H.L. GORDON
3. 3.TABLE OF CONTENTS — PREFACE
4. 4.PRELUDE — THE MISSISSIPPI
5. 5.THE FEAST OF THE VIRGINS [1] — A LEGEND OF THE DAKOTAS — THE GAME OF BALL [2] — HEYOKA WACIPEE [16] — THE GIANT'S DANCE. — THE FEAST OF THE VIRGINS — TO THE MEMORY OF MY DEVOTED WIFE DEAD AND GONE YET ALWAYS WITH ME I DEDICATE PAULINE THE FLOWER OF MY HEART NURSED INTO BLOOM BY HER LOVING CARE AND OFTTIMES WATERED WITH HER TEARS H.L.G.
6. 6.PAULINE — PART I — INTRODUCTION — THE CAPTAIN'S STORY — PART II — PAUL' S HISTORY — FOOTNOTES
7. 7.THE SEA-GULL. [1] — THE LEGEND OF THE PICTURED ROCKS OF LAKE SUPERIOR. OJIBWAY — In the measure of Hiawatha. — POETRY. — TWENTY YEARS AGO — BETZKO — A HUNGARIAN LEGEND — WESSELENYI — A HUNGARIAN TALE — ISABEL — BYRON AND THE ANGEL — CHRISTMAS EVE — I — II — OUT OF THE DEPTHS — FAME — WINONA. — THE FOOT RACES. — THE WAKAN-WACEPEE, OR SACRED DANCE. [81] — WINONA'S WARNING. — DULUTH'S DEPARTURE — THE CANOE RACE. — IN CAMP. — WINONA AND TA-TE-PSIN. — FAMINE. — DEATH OF TA-TE-PSIN. — DEATH OF WINONA. — FOOTNOTES — SPRING — TO MOLLIE — TO SYLVA — THANKSGIVING. — [Nov. 26, 1857, during the great financial depression.] — CHARITY — CHARITY — [Written in a friend's book of autographs, 1876.] — SAILOR-BOY'S SONG — MY DEAD — DUST TO DUST — O LET ME DREAM THE DREAMS OF LONG AGO — THE PIONEER — [MINNESOTA—1860-1875] — FOOTNOTES — NIGHT THOUGHTS — DANIEL — [Written at the grave of an old friend.] — MINNETONKA [BZ] — FOOTNOTES — BEYOND — LINES — On the death of Captain Hiram A. Coats, my old schoolmate and friend. — MAULEY — THE BRAVE FERRY-MAN — FOOTNOTES — MEN — HELOISE — CHANGE — FIDO — THE REIGN OF REASON — LOVE WILL FIND — AN OLD ENGLISH OAK — THE LEGEND OF THE FALLS [CH] — [Read at the Celebration of the Old Settlers of Hennepin County, at the Academy of Music, Minneapolis, July 4, 1879.] — THE LEGEND — FOOTNOTES
8. 8.CHICKADEE — ANTHEM — [APRIL, 1861.] — HURRAH FOR THE VOLUNTEERS — [May, 1861.] — CHARGE OF "THE BLACK-HORSE" — [First battle of Bull Run.] — ONLY A PRIVATE KILLED — DO THEY THINK OF US? — [October, 1861, after the Battle of Ball's Bluff.] — CHARGE OF FREMONT'S BODY-GUARD — A MILLION MORE — [AUGUST, 1862.] — FOOTNOTES — ON READING PRESIDENT LINCOLN'S LETTER — To Horace Greeley, of date Aug. 22, 1862—"If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it," etc. — THE DYING VETERAN — GRIERSON'S RAID — THE OLD FLAG — [Written July 4, 1863.] — GETTYSBURG: CHARGE OF THE FIRST MINNESOTA — ADDRESS TO THE FLAG — [After the Battle of Gettysburg.] — FOOTNOTES — NEW-YEARS ADDRESS—JANUARY 1, 1866 — [Written for the St. Paul Pioneer.] — FOOTNOTES — MY FATHER-LAND — [From the German of Theodor Korner.] — MY HEART'S ON THE RHINE — [From the German of Wolfgang Muller.] — THE MINSTREL — [From the German of Goethe] — [ Wilhelm Meister's Apprenticeship, Book 2, Chap. 2. ] — HOPE — [From the German of Schiller.] — MRS. MCNAIR — THE DRAFT — [January, 1865.] — THE DEVIL AND THE MONK — FOOTNOTES — THE TARIFF ON TIN — PAT AND THE PIG — FOOTNOTES — NOTES
9. 9.NOTES TO THE SEA-GULL — FINIS

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