Beyond the blue (Emily Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) Poems)
ISpeak of you, sir? You bet he did. Ben Fields was far too soundTo go back on a fellow just ...
ISpeak of you, sir? You bet he did. Ben Fields was far too soundTo go back on a fellow just ...
1 ``False,' they said, ``thy Pale-face lover, from the land of waking morn ;2 Rise and wed thy Redskin wooer, ...
My forest brave, my Red-skin love, farewell;We may not meet to-morrow; who can tellWhat mighty ills befall our little band,Or ...
Captive! Is there a hell to him like this?A taunt more galling than the Huron's hiss?He--proud and scornful, he--who laughed ...
You didn't know Billy, did you? Well, Bill was one of the boys,The greatest fellow you ever seen to racket ...
I AM Ojistoh, I am she, the wifeOf him whose name breathes bravery and lifeAnd courage to the tribe that ...
To-night the west o'er-brims with warmest dyes;Its chalice overflowsWith pools of purple colouring the skies,Aflood with gold and rose;And some ...
1 West wind, blow from your prairie nest,2 Blow from the mountains, blow from the west3 The sail is idle, ...
There was a man--a Jew of kingly blood,But of the people--poor and lowly born,Accused of blasphemy of God, He stoodBefore ...
A meadow brown; across the yonder edgeA zigzag fence is ambling; here a wedgeOf underbush has cleft its course in ...
A meadow brown; across the yonder edgeA zigzag fence is ambling; here a wedgeOf underbush has cleft its course in ...
1 A stream of tender gladness,2 Of filmy sun, and opal tinted skies ;3 Of warm midsummer air that lightly ...
There's wine in the cup, Vancouver,And there's warmth in my heart for you,While I drink to your health, your youth, ...
Not of the seething cities with their swarming human hives,Their fetid airs, their reeking streets, their dwarfed and poisoned lives,Not ...
Unknown to you, I walk the cheerless shore.The cutting blast, the hurl of biting brineMay freeze, and still, and bind ...
A thin wet sky, that yellows at the rim,And meets with sun-lost lip the marsh's brim.The pools low lying, dank ...
Time and its ally, Dark Disarmament,Have compassed me about,Have massed their armies, and on battle bentMy forces put to rout;But ...
1 Because, dear Christ, your tender, wounded arm2 Bends back the brier that edges life's long way,3 That no hurt ...
At Crow's Nest Pass the mountains rendThemselves apart, the rivers wendA lawless course about their feet,And breaking into torrents beatIn ...
Because, dear Christ, your tender, wounded armBends back the brier that edges life's long way,That no hurt comes to heart, ...
At husking time the tassel fadesTo brown above the yellow blades,Whose rustling sheath enswathes the cornThat bursts its chrysalis in ...
Born on the breast of the prairie, she smiles to her sire--the sun,Robed in the wealth of her wheat-lands, gift ...
My heart forgot its God for love of you,And you forgot me, other loves to learn;Now through a wilderness of ...
(INSCRIBED TO ONE BEYOND SEAS)Know by the thread of music woven throughThis fragile web of cadences I spin,That I have ...
A sweet high treble threads its silvery song,Voice of the restless aspen, fine and thinIt trills its pure soprano, light ...
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