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Arrows dipped in honey, thrice distilled - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Archers"

All his art breathes melody - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Art of Alma-Tadema"

The music of those marbles - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Art of Alma-Tadema"

Amid the hush of ages - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Art of Alma-Tadema"

The rivers wend a lawless course - Emily Pauline Johnson "At Crow's Nest Pass"

Suspend their shifting vapours - Emily Pauline Johnson "At Crow's Nest Pass"

Rocks that suffer not defeat - Emily Pauline Johnson "At Crow's Nest Pass"

Snows, and suns, and mad winds meet - Emily Pauline Johnson "At Crow's Nest Pass"

That bursts its chrysalis in scorn - Emily Pauline Johnson "At Husking Time"

The sly raccoon with craft inborn - Emily Pauline Johnson "At Husking Time"

This fragile web of cadences - Emily Pauline Johnson "Autumn's Orchestra"

October's orchestra plays softly - Emily Pauline Johnson "Autumn's Orchestra"

Some evasive haunting tune - Emily Pauline Johnson "Autumn's Orchestra"

The branches of the soldier oak - Emily Pauline Johnson "Autumn's Orchestra"

In a faded scarf of fragrance - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Ballad of Yaada"

Made him captive to her singing - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Ballad of Yaada"

Nuggets of gold are her acres - Emily Pauline Johnson "Brandon"

Opulence waits to be won - Emily Pauline Johnson "Brandon"

Bison lurking on her midnight trails - Emily Pauline Johnson "Calgary"

Southward a rival's stealth - Emily Pauline Johnson "Canada"

Bent on bullets and bloodshed - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Cattle Thief"

Cursed like a troop of demons - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Cattle Thief"

Dead husks that rustle through her hands - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Corn Husker"

A ghost upon the shore - Emily Pauline Johnson "Dawendine"

Echo through the midnight forest - Emily Pauline Johnson "Dawendine"

Such as stars could not eclipse - Emily Pauline Johnson "Day Dawn"

Dawn grey-garbed and velvet-shod - Emily Pauline Johnson "Day Dawn"

And another day set free - Emily Pauline Johnson "Day Dawn"

Burning in Lent's black-bordered dress - Emily Pauline Johnson "Easter"

A race with flying clouds and tossing gulls - Emily Pauline Johnson "Erie Waters"

Sleep will bring a thrice-distilled release - Emily Pauline Johnson "Fasting"

Some gentle spirit sorrow-fed - Emily Pauline Johnson "Fire-Flowers"

A band of black, belated crows - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Flight of the Crows"

Their cries in lonely monotone - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Flight of the Crows"

Dies in the hush of distance - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Flight of the Crows"

Giant strength and peerless height - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Flight of the Crows"

Still frets the evening air - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Flight of the Crows"

Sounds of the sands have sped - Emily Pauline Johnson "Good-Bye"

With her cannon as crown - Emily Pauline Johnson "Guard of the Eastern Gate"

Encased in a gauntlet of steel - Emily Pauline Johnson "Guard of the Eastern Gate"

Full of prodigal heat - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Idlers"

Full lavish of its lustre unrepressed - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Idlers"

Above your splendid sunburnt throat - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Idlers"

Wherein cloud shadows burn - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Idlers"

Measures of oil for others - Emily Pauline Johnson "In Grey Days"

Worlds at the feet of others - Emily Pauline Johnson "In Grey Days"

The truant hour came back at dawn - Emily Pauline Johnson "The King's Consort"

All the jewels warm as wine - Emily Pauline Johnson "The King's Consort"

With an ermine robe around her - Emily Pauline Johnson "Lady Icicle"

Where her silver slippers glisten - Emily Pauline Johnson "Lady Icicle"

Viols are dreaming between us - Emily Pauline Johnson "Lady Lorgnette"

And your heart is my golden coronet - Emily Pauline Johnson "Lady Lorgnette"

A vagrant band of mischiefs - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Lifting of the Mist"

The hush of the golden moon - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Lost Lagoon"

Wrapped in all her summer harmonies - Emily Pauline Johnson "Low Tide at St. Andrews"

Half-lost memories of some old dream - Emily Pauline Johnson "Low Tide at St. Andrews"

And meets with sun-lost lip - Emily Pauline Johnson "Marshlands"

Sail up the silence - Emily Pauline Johnson "Marshlands"

Steals twilight and its shadows - Emily Pauline Johnson "Marshlands"

Wind through the dreaming fire - Emily Pauline Johnson "Moonset"

Chanting vespers to the sea - Emily Pauline Johnson "Moonset"

Like network threads of fire - Emily Pauline Johnson "Nocturne"

A hundred steeples on the sky out-lining - Emily Pauline Johnson "Nocturne"

Fettered in midwinter's crystal chains - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Pilot of the Plains"

And the world of the willing hand - Emily Pauline Johnson "Prairie Greyhounds"

A wilderness of thorn and rue - Emily Pauline Johnson "A Prodigal"

Makes the power of the Lion's jaw - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Riders of the Plain"

The best that blood contains - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Riders of the Plain"

The music of a thousand wings - E. Pauline Johnson "Shadow River"

Fixed and stern as fate's decree - Emily Pauline Johnson "Silhouette"

Through the yellow plumes of goldenrod - Emily Pauline Johnson "Thistle-down"

Blossoms with a thousand thorns afret - Emily Pauline Johnson "Thistle-down"

Walk the cheerless shore - E. Pauline Johnson "Through Time and Bitter Distance"

Some shadow of your eyes - E. Pauline Johnson "Through Time and Bitter Distance"

Come you here on haunting quest - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Trail to Lillooet"

Calling through the seas and silence - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Trail to Lillooet"

Points of opal in the crescent coronet - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Trail to Lillooet"

Savage of breed and of bone - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Train Dogs"

The spoils of the hunger's moon - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Train Dogs"

In a liquid mass of rubies sleeps - Emily Pauline Johnson "Under Canvas"

With opiates for idleness to quaff - Emily Pauline Johnson "Under Canvas"

That worry the sunless west - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Vagabonds"

When you whisper to the moon - Emily Pauline Johnson "Where Leaps the Ste. Marie"

Ventures forth along the edge of night - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Wolf"

A worthless prairie vagabond - Emily Pauline Johnson "The Wolf"

Denied the wines of life - Emily Pauline Johnson "Workworn"

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