Emily Pauline Johnson
Who is Emily Pauline Johnson
Emily Pauline Johnson (10 March 1861 – 7 March 1913), also known by her Mohawk stage name Tekahionwake (pronounced dageh-eeon-wageh, literally 'double-life'), was a Canadian poet, author, and performer who was popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Her father was a hereditary Mohawk chief of mixed ancestry and her mother was an English immigrant.Johnson—whose poetry was published in Canada, the United States, and Great Britain—was among a generation of widely-read writers who began to define Canadian literature. She was a key figure in the construction of the field as an institution and has made an indelible mark on Indigenous women's writing and performance as a whole.
Johnson was notable for her poems, short stories, and performances that celebrated her mixed-r...
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Emily Pauline Johnson Poems
- The Riders Of The Plains [1]
Who is it lacks the knowledge? Who are the curs that dare
To whine and sneer that they do not fear the whelps in the Lion's lair?
But we of the North will answer, while life in the North remains,
Let the curs beware lest the whelps they dare are the Riders of the Plains;
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- The Sleeping Giant
(THUNDER BAY, LAKE SUPERIOR)
When did you sink to your dreamless sleep
Out there in your thunder bed?
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- Golden - Of The Selkirks
A trail upwinds from Golden;
It leads to a land God only knows,
To the land of eternal frozen snows,
That trail unknown and olden.
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- Prairie Greyhounds
C.P.R. "NO. 1," WESTBOUND
I swing to the sunset land -
The world of prairie, the world of plain,
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- Through Time And Bitter Distance"[1]
Unknown to you, I walk the cheerless shore.
The cutting blast, the hurl of biting brine
May freeze, and still, and bind the waves at war,
Ere you will ever know, O! Heart of mine,
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- Poetrysoup_: late cranes with heavy wing, and lazy flight,
sail up the silence with the nearing night.
and like a spirit, swathed in some soft veil,
steals twilight and its shadows o’er the swale.
/ emily pauline johnson
- Angelhamilton8: one-woman musical tells story of ‘poetic princess of the mohawks’ emily pauline johnson
- Rodjnaquin: marshlands
by emily pauline johnson
- Roy_wallen: the cedar trees have sung their vesper hymn,
and now the music sleeps--
its benediction falling where the dim
dusk of the forest creeps.
emily pauline johnson, also known as tekahionwake, born on this date in 1861
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