by E. Pauline Johnson · 1912
Poetry · Classics
Collected poems of E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake), the Mohawk poet and performer, on canoes, rivers, love and Canada.
Content note: Written in 1912, this book uses terms of its time.
Collected Verse
By E. Pauline Johnson
To his Royal Highness
The Duke of Connaught
Who is Head Chief of the Six Nations Indians
I inscribe this book by his own gracious permission
INTRODUCTION
IN MEMORIAM: PAULINE JOHNSON
I cannot say how deeply it touched me to learn that Pauline Johnson expressed a wish on her death-bed that I, living here in the mother country all these miles away, should write something about her. I was not altogether surprised, however, for her letters to me had long ago shed a golden light upon her peculiar character. She had made herself believe, quite erroneously, that she was largely indebted to me for her success in the literary world. The letters I had from her glowed with this noble passion: the delusion about her indebtedness to me, in spite of all I could say, never left her. She continued to foster and cherish this delusion. Gratitude indeed was with her not a sentiment merely, as with most of us, but a veritable passion.
