...is a masterful work. I had recently completed a translation of the extant lines of Sappho and am familiar with his problems. He was faced with the a... ...he war was forever between us and I hated those years, those battles, the lines on his face. My hate was there, between us. Then, then, tears came t... ..., then quietly, as though to himself, or from an- other world, he repeated lines we had loved: “The gods held me in Egypt, longing to sail for home, ... ...c players. I dreamed I talked with Cyprus-born... No, that is a poor line. Maybe this is a better theme for tonight: But I, I love delicate ... ... I often think of a lyric as an amphora; little by little I must mold its lines on the wheel of my mind. It is the structure, containing the song. I... ... wished to go to sleep. These were wandering musi- cians, from neighboring islands, and their songs were mostly new to us. They repeated the ones we ... ...ld, before us, deceptive, feminine, wrap- ping us in fog, cities, deserts, islands, birds, starry decks and windless watches. We never remember the s... ...em deter- mined to flourish. Where the Loire widens, meadows of water form islands. Yesterday or the day before, Francesco and I spent most of a morn...

...is a masterful work. I had recently completed a translation of the extant lines of Sappho and am familiar with his problems. He was faced with the a... ...he war was forever between us and I hated those years, those battles, the lines on his face. My hate was there, between us. Then, then, tears came t... ..., then quietly, as though to himself, or from an- other world, he repeated lines we had loved: “The gods held me in Egypt, longing to sail for home, ... ...c players. I dreamed I talked with Cyprus-born... No, that is a poor line. Maybe this is a better theme for tonight: But I, I love delicate ... ... I often think of a lyric as an amphora; little by little I must mold its lines on the wheel of my mind. It is the structure, containing the song. I... ... wished to go to sleep. These were wandering musi- cians, from neighboring islands, and their songs were mostly new to us. They repeated the ones we ... ...ld, before us, deceptive, feminine, wrap- ping us in fog, cities, deserts, islands, birds, starry decks and windless watches. We never remember the s...

...e in 1640 BC and housed the flourishing Cycladic civilization), through the Canary Islands to Scandinavia. Considering that many ancient civilizati... ... (1571), a pair of bodies of sweete lether (1579), a pair of bodies of black velvet lined with canvas stiffened with buckeram (1583), for altering a... ... canvas stiffened with buckeram (1583), for altering a pair of bodies...the bodies lined with sackecloth and buckram about the skirts with bents co... ...out the skirts with bents covered with fustian, a pair of french bodies of damaske lined with sackcloth, with whales bone to them (1597)" Victoria... ...lizes, so does crime fighting. Mobsters, serial killers, and terrorists cross state lines and borders effortlessly, making use of the latest advance... ...se given out by disintegrating protein in decaying flesh. The flower is found on islands off the coasts of Sardinia, Corsica and Spain's Balearic... ...his amounts to 15 with 22 zeros after it, or 150 zettabits of data. Stretched in a line, the DNA is one cell would measure c. 2 meters long. Inside... ..., the insect is to be found only in Central and South America and in some Caribbean islands. Treatment with "smears" containing ronnel and lindane a... ...n. The USA was preceded by the Aztecs, ancient China, feudal Japan, the Polynesian islands, Iceland, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Russia, Canada, and I...

...irst brought his people over the wide desert of the sea of kanaloa (the pacific ocean) from the continent of kahiki-ku to found a new domain on these islands, he named the second largest island of the hawaiian group haere tonu, which means “out of the darkness and depths of the sea.” Many centuries were to pass before the people of hawaii were to call this island by the n...

...The Prince Paumakua was the last of the Hawaiin monchs, until the advent of kamehameha the Great, to held sovereignty over all of the Hawaiin islands. paumakua was the 49th lineal descendant of the great Navigator-king Hawaiiloa; he was 108th generation descendant of wakea, the God of light who was the progenitor of Hawaiin royalty....

...The first attempts to establish steam navigation among the Hawaiian islands were made by men engaged in similar enterprises in California; they were part of a much larger movement. The expansion of the United States to the Pacific coast, the extraordinarily rapid settlement of California afte...

...s the sacred creation chant of a family of Hawaiian alii, or ruling chiefs. Composed and transmitted entirely in the oral tradition, its two thousand lines provide an extended genealogy proving the family’s divine origin and tracing the family history from the begging of the world. This chant remains as an authentic work or primitive literature. Moreover, it is one of the ...

...ication. It was the crown of over forty-five years of intensive research in the folklore of many parts of the world, but particularly of the Hawaiian Islands where she had grown up. The preparation of the book occupied most of her time after her retirement from Vassar College in 1938. There she had spent eighteen years as research professor in the Folklore Foundation estab...

...mall? A fusion of two cultures, two nations, two lands, divided by man-made lines. Do guns and bombs await her, too, or only half of her? Must she ta... ...s, and though some to foreign lands depart, her love shines forth from every line of letters regularly sent in perfectly formed, close-knit, old-fa... ...the Canaries he goes, running a bar for the German tourists who flock to the islands in droves. The weather he adores and the relaxing lifestyle suits... ..., the younger sister her devoted pupil writing page after page of unreadable lines, and with classmates and others she's a favorite, for all are attra...

...art II. embraces historic studies and fragmentary notes of Judge Fornander, selected from his miscellaneous papers, as affording an insight into his line of research work, hence, has little of the original Hawaiian and translation feature of the other parts. Part III. is devoted entirely to chants of various kinds. These are almost wholly from the collection of Judge ...

...igration of the Polynesian Race -- 222 -- Traditional Hawaiian History -- 239 -- Hawaiian Origins: Comparative Traditions Viti—Fiji—New Zealand—Tonga Islands— Marquesas: -- 258 -- Legend of Hawaii-Loa -- 266 -- The Story of Kahahana -- 282 -- A Lamentation for Kahahana -- 292 -- Notes on a Lamentation for Kahahana -- 299 -- On Hawaiian Rank -- 307 -- Chronological List -- ...