E. Pauline Johnson: Poetry E. Pauline Johnson

Complete literary works

Dated publications

This list cites the first known publication of individual texts, as well as first appearance in one of Johnson's books, based on the work of Veronica Jane Strong-Boag and Carole Gerson.[12]

  • 1883
    • Gems of Poetry
      • "My Little Jean"
  • 1884
    • Gems of Poetry
      • "The Rift. By Margaret Rox"
      • "Rover"
    • Transactions of the Buffalo Historic Society
      • "The Re-interment of Red Jacket"
  • 1885
    • Gems of Poetry
      • "Iris to Floretta"
      • "The Sea Queen"
    • The Week
      • "The Sea Queen"
      • "A Cry from an Indian Wife"
      • "In the Shadows"
  • 1886
    • Souvenir pamphlet
      • "'Brant', A Memorial Ode"
    • The Week
      • "The Firs"
      • "Easter Lilies"
      • "At the Ferry"
      • "A Request"
  • 1887
    • Musical Journal
      • "Life"
    • The Week
      • "The Vigil of St Basil" retitled "Fasting"
  • 1888
    • Saturday Night
      • "My English Letter"
      • "Easter, 1888"
      • "Unguessed"
      • "The Death-Cry"
      • "Keepsakes"
      • "The Flight of the Crows"
      • "Under Canvas"
      • "Workworn"
      • "A Backwoods Christmas" retitled "The Lumberman's Christmas"
    • The Week
      • "Joe" retitled "Joe: An Etching"
      • "Our Brotherhood"
  • 1889
    • Globe
      • "Evergreens"
    • Saturday Night
      • "The Happy Hunting Grounds"
      • "Close By"
      • "Ungranted" retitled "Overlooked"
      • "Old Erie" retitled "Erie Waters"
      • "Shadow River"
      • "Bass Lake (Muskoka)"
      • "Temptation"
      • "Fortune's Favors"
      • "Rondeau"
      • "Christmastide"
    • The Week
      • "Nocturne"
  • 1890
    • Brantford Courier
      • "Charming Word Pictures. Etchings by an Idler of Muskoka and the Beautiful North"
      • "Charming Word Pictures. Etchings by a Muskoka Idler"
      • "Charming Word Pictures. Etchings by a Muskoka Idler"
    • Saturday Night
      • "We Three" retitled "Beyond the Blue"
      • "In April"
      • "For Queen and Country"
      • "Back Number [Chief of the Six Nations]"
      • "The Idlers"
      • "With Paddle and Peterboro"
      • "Depths"
      • "Day Dawn"
      • "'Held by the Enemy'"
      • "With Canvas Overhead"
      • "Two Women"
      • "A Day's Frog Fishing"
      • "In October" retitled "October in Canada"
      • "Thro' Time and Bitter Distance" retitled "Through Time and Bitter Distance"
      • "As Red Men Die"
  • 1891
    • Brantford Expositor
      • "A'bram"
    • Dominion Illustrated
      • "Our Iroquois Compatriots"
    • Independent
      • "Re-Voyage"
      • "At Husking Time"
    • Outing
      • "The Camper"
      • "Ripples and Paddle Plashes: A Canoe Story"
    • Saturday Night
      • "The Last Page"
      • "The Showshoer"
      • "Outlooking"
      • "The Seventh Day"
      • "The Vagabonds"
      • "Prone on the Earth"
      • "In Days to Come"
      • "Striking Camp"
      • "The Pilot of the Plains"
    • Weekly Detroit Free Press
      • "Canoeing"
    • Young Canadian
      • "Star Lake"
  • 1892
    • Belford's Magazine
      • "Wave-Won"
    • Brantford Expositor
      • "Forty-Five Miles on the Grand"
    • Dominion Illustrated
      • "Indian Medicine Men and their Magic"
    • Lake Magazine
      • "Penseroso"
    • Outing
      • "Outdoor Pastimes for Women"
    • Saturday Night
      • "A Story of a Boy and a Dog"
      • "Rondeau. The Skater"
      • "Glimpse at the Grand River Indians"
      • "The Song My Paddle Sings"
      • "At Sunset"
      • "Rainfall"
      • "Sail and Paddle"
      • "The Avenger"
    • Sunday Globe
      • "A Strong Race Opinion: on the Indian Girl in Modern Fiction"
    • Weekly Detroit Free Press
      • "On Wings of Steel"
      • "A Brother Chief"
      • "The Game of Lacrosse"
      • "Reckless Young Canada"
  • 1893
    • American Canoe Club Yearbook
      • "The Portage"
    • Canadian Magazine
    • Dominion Illustrated
      • "A Red Girl's Reasoning" retitled "A Sweet Wild Flower"
    • Illustrated Buffalo Express
      • "Sail and Paddle. The Annual Meeting of the Canoe Association"
    • Outing
      • "Outdoor Pastimes for Women", columns in the Monthly Record
      • "A Week in the 'Wild Cat'"
    • Saturday Night
      • "The Mariner"
      • "Brier"
      • "Canoe and Canvas"
      • "Princes of the Paddle"
      • "Wolverine"
    • Weekly Detroit Free Press
      • "The Song My Paddle Sings", retitled "Canoeing in Canada"
  • 1894
    • Acta Victoriana
      • "In Freshet Time"
      • Art Calendar, illustrated by Robert Holmes
      • "Thistledown"
    • Globe
      • "There and Back, by Miss Poetry (E. Pauline Johnson), and Mr Prose (Owen A. Smily)", 15 December, 3–4.
    • Harper's Weekly
      • "The Iroquois of the Grand River"
    • Ladies' Journal
      • "In Gray Days"
    • Outing
      • "Moon-Set"
    • The Varsity
      • "Marsh-Lands"
    • The Week
      • "The Cattle Thief"
  • 1895
    • Black and White
      • "The Lifting of the Mist"
    • Brantford Expositor
      • "The Six Nations"
    • Globe
      • "The Races in Prose and Verse, by Miss Poetry and Mr Prose"
    • Halifax Herald
      • "Iroquois Women of Canada"
    • Our Animal Friends
      • "From the Country of the Cree"
    • The Rudder
      • "Sou'wester"
      • "Canoe and Canvas. I"
      • "Canoe and Canvas. II"
      • "Canoe and Canvas. Ill"
      • "Canoe and Canvas. IV"
      • "Becalmed"
    • The Year Book
      • "The White and the Green"
    • The White Wampum
      • Previous publication unknown: "Dawendine", "Ojistoh"
  • 1896
    • Black and White
      • "Low Tide at St Andrews"
      • "The Quill Worker"
    • Daily Mail and Empire
      • "The Good Old N.P."
    • Harper's Weekly
      • "Lullaby of the Iroquois"
      • "The Corn Husker"
    • Massey's Magazine
      • "The Singer of Tantramar"
      • "The Songster"
      • "The Derelict"
    • Our Animal Friends
      • "A Glimpse of the Prairie Wolf"
    • The Rudder
      • "With Barry in the Bow. Act I. Scene: The Land of Evangeline"
      • "With Barry in the Bow. Act II. Scene: The Great North Land"
      • "With Barry in the Bow. Interlude between Acts II and III"
      • "The American Canoe Association at Grindstone Island"
  • 1897
    • Ludgate Magazine
      • "Gambling among the Iroquois"
    • Massey's Magazine
      • "The Indian Corn Planter"
    • Our Animal Friends
      • "In Gopher-Land"
    • The Rudder
      • "With Barry in the Bow. Act III. Scene: The Land of the Setting Sun"
      • "With Barry in the Bow. Act IV"
      • "With Barry in the Bow. Act V"
    • Saturday Night
      • "The De Lisle Affair"
  • 1898
    • Canada
      • "Organization of the Iroquois"
    • Town Topics
      • "The Indian Legend of Qu'Appelle Valley", retitled "The Legend of Qu'Appelle Valley"
  • 1899
    • Free Press Home Journal (Winnipeg)
      • "'Give Us Barabbas'"
    • Globe
      • "H.M.S."
    • Saturday Night
      • "As It Was in the Beginning"
    • Town Topics
      • "Some People I Have Met"
  • 1900
    • Halifax Herald
      • "Canadian Born"
  • 1901
    • "His Majesty the King"
  • 1902
    • Evening News
      • "Letter to the Editor" (about Wacousta)
      • "Our Sister of the Seas"
      • "Among the Blackfoots"
    • Smart Set
      • "The Prodigal"
  • 1903
    • Canadian Born
      • Previous publication unknown: "The Art of Alma-Tadema", "At Half-Mast", "The City and The Sea", "Golden – Of the Selkirks", "Good-Bye", "Guard of the Eastern Gate", "Lady Icicle", "Lady Lorgnette", "Prairie Greyhounds", "The Riders of the Plains" [performed 1899], "The Sleeping Giant", "A Toast", "Your Mirror Frame".
    • Saturday Night
      • "Made in Canada"
  • 1904
    • Rod and Gun
      • "The Train Dogs"
  • 1906
    • Black and White
      • "When George Was King"
      • Boys' World
      • "Maurice of His Majesty's Mails"
      • "The Saucy Seven"
      • "Dick Dines with his 'Dad'"
    • Daily Express (London)
      • "A Pagan in St. Paul's", retitled "A Pagan in St. Paul's Cathedral"
      • "The Lodge of the Law Makers"
      • "The Silent News Carriers"
      • "Sons of Savages"
    • Over-Seas
      • "The Traffic of the Trail"
      • "Newfoundland"
    • Saturday Night
      • "The Cariboo Trail"
    • Standard (Montreal)
      • "Chance of Newfoundland Joining Canada Switches Interest to Britain's Oldest Colony"
  • 1907
    • Boys' World
      • "We-eho's Sacrifice", retitled "We-hro's Sacrifice"
      • "Gun-shy Billy"
      • "The Broken String"
      • "Little Wolf-Willow"
      • "The Shadow Trail"
    • Calgary Daily News
      • "The Man in Chrysanthemum Land"
    • Canada (London)
      • "Longboat of the Onondagas"
    • Canadian Magazine
      • "The Cattle Country", retitled "The Foothill Country"
      • "The Haunting Thaw"
      • "The Trail to Lillooet"
    • Mother's Magazine
      • "The Little Red Indian's Day"
      • "Her Dominion – A Story of 1867, and Canada's Confederation"
      • "The Home Comers"
      • "The Prayers of the Pagan"
  • 1908
    • Boys' World
      • "A Night With 'North Eagle'"
      • "The Tribe of Tom Longboat"
      • "The Lieutenant Governor's Prize"
      • "Canada's Lacrosse"
      • "The Scarlet Eye"
      • "The Cruise of the 'Brown Owl'"
    • Brantford Daily Expositor
      • "Canada"
    • Mother's Magazine
      • "Mothers of a Great Red Race"
      • "Winter Indoor Life of the Indian Mother and Child"
      • "How One Resourceful Mother Planned an Inexpensive Outing"
      • "Outdoor Occupations of the Indian Mother and her Children", Heroic Indian Mothers
      • "Mother of the Motherless"
    • Saturday Night
      • "The Foothill Country", previously "The Cattle Country"
      • "The Southward Trail"
    • When George Was King, and Other Poems
      • "Autumn's Orchestra"
  • 1909
    • Boys' World
      • "The Broken Barrels I"
      • "The Broken Barrels II"
      • "The Whistling Swans"
      • "The Delaware Idol"
      • "The King's Coin (Chapter One)"
      • "The King's Coin (Chapter Two)"
      • "The King's Coin (Chapter Three)"
      • "The King's Coin (Chapter Four)"
      • "The King's Coin (Chapter Five)"
      • "Jack O' Lantern I"
      • "Jack O' Lantern II"
    • Mother's Magazine
      • "The Legend of the Two Sisters", as "The True Legend of Vancouver Lions", Daily Province Magazine, 16 April 1910; retitled "The Two Sisters"
      • "Mother o' the Men"
      • "The Envoy Extraordinary"
      • "My Mother"
      • "The Christmas Heart"
    • Saturday Night
      • "The Chinook Wind"
  • 1910
    • Boys' World
      • "The Brotherhood"
      • "The Wolf-Brothers"
      • "The Silver Craft of the Mohawks: The Protective Totem"
      • "The Silver Craft of the Mohawks: The Brooch of Brotherhood"
      • "The Silver Craft of the Mohawks: The Hunter's Heart"
      • "The Signal Code"
      • "England's Sailor King"
      • "The Barnardo Boy"
      • "A Chieftain Prince"
      • "The Potlatch"
      • "The Story of the First Telephone"
      • "The Silver Craft of the Mohawks: The Traitor's Hearts"
      • "The Silver Craft of the Mohawks: The Sun of Friendship"
      • "On My Honor"
    • Canadian Magazine
      • "The Homing Bee"
    • Daily Province Magazine
      • "The True Legend of Vancouver's Lions", retitled "The Two Sisters"
      • "The Duke of Connaught as Chief of the Iroquois", retitled "A Royal Mohawk Chief"
      • "A Legend of the Squamish", retitled "The Lost Island"
      • "A True Legend of Siwash Rock: a Monument to Clean Fatherhood", retitled "The Siwash Rock"
      • "The Recluse of the Capilano Canyon", retitled "The Recluse"
      • "A Legend of Deer Lake", retitled "Deer Lake"
      • "The 'Lure' in Stanley Park"
      • "The Deep Waters: A Rare Squamish Legend", retitled "The Great Deep Water: A Legend of 'The Flood'"
    • Mother's Magazine, February 1912; retitled "The Deep Waters"
      • "The Legend of the Lost Salmon Run", retitled "The Lost Salmon Run"
      • "The Sea Serpent of Brockton Point", retitled "The Sea Serpent"
      • "The Legend of the Seven White Swans"
      • "The True Legend of Deadman's Island", retitled "Deadman's Island"
      • "The Lost Lagoon"
      • "A Squamish Legend of Napoleon"
      • "The Orchard of Evangeline's Land"
      • "The Call of the Old Qu' Appelle Valley"
      • "Prairie and Foothill Animals That Despise the Southward Trail"
      • "Where the Horse is King"
      • "A Legend of Point Grey", retitled "Point Grey"
      • "The Great Heights above the Tulameen", retitled "The Tulameen Trail"
      • "Trails of the Old Tillicums"
    • Mother's Magazine
      • "The Nest Builder"
      • "The Call of the Skookum Chuck"
      • "From the Child's Viewpoint"
      • "The Grey Archway: A Legend of the Charlotte Islands"
      • "The Legend of the Squamish Twins", retitled "The Recluse of Capilano Canyon", retitled "The Recluse"
      • "The Lost Salmon Run: A Legend of the Pacific Coast", retitled "The Legend of the Lost Salmon Run"
    • Daily Province
      • "The Lost Salmon Run"
      • "The Legend of Siwash Rock"
      • "Catharine of the 'Crow's Nest'"
    • What to Do
      • "A Lost Luncheon"
      • "The Building Beaver"
  • 1911
    • Legends of Vancouver
    • Boys' World
      • "The King Georgeman [I]"
      • "The King Georgeman [II]"
    • Daily Province Magazine
      • "The Grey Archway: A Legend of the Coast", retitled "The Grey Archway"
      • "The Great New Year White Dog: Sacrifice of the Onondagas"
    • Daily Province
      • "La Crosse"
    • Mother's Magazine
      • "Hoolool of the Totem Poles"
      • "The Tenas Klootchman"
      • "The Legend of the Seven Swans"
      • "The Legend of the Ice Babies"
  • 1912
    • Flint and Feather
      • Previous publication unknown: "The Archers", "Brandon", "The King's Consort"
    • Mother's Magazine
      • "The Legend of Lillooet Falls"
      • "The Great Deep Water: A Legend of 'The Flood'"
    • Sun (Vancouver)
      • "The Unfailing Lamp"
  • 1913
    • The Moccasin Maker
      • "Her Majesty's Guest"
    • The Shagganappi
      • "The Shagganappi"
    • Boys' World
      • "The Little Red Messenger [I]"
      • "The Little Red Messenger [II]"
    • Calgary Herald
      • "Calgary of the Plains"
    • Canadian Magazine
      • "Song"
      • "In Heidleberg"
      • "Aftermath"
    • Saturday Night
      • "The Ballad of Yaada"
    • Pamphlet (Toronto: Musson)
      • "And He Said, Fight On"
  • 1914
    • Canadian Magazine
      • "Reclaimed Lands"
      • "Coaching on the Cariboo Trail"
    • Daily Province
      • "Coaching on the Cariboo Trail"
  • 1916
    • Flint and Feather
      • "The Man from Chrysanthemum Land" (written for The Spectator)
  • 1929
    • Town Hall Tonight by Walter McRaye
      • "To Walter McRaye"
  • 1947
    • Pauline Johnson and Her Friends by McRaye
      • "The Ballad of Laloo"

Undated publications

Poems in the Chiefswood Scrapbook: c. 1884–1924

  • "Both Sides" New York Life, 1888
  • "Comrades, we are serving" n.p., n.d.
  • "Disillusioned" (second part "Both Sides") Judge, n.d.
  • "Lent" signed Woeful Jack, n.p., n.d.
  • "What the Soldier Said" Brant Churchman, n.d.

Clippings at McMaster University

  • "In the Shadows. My Version. By the Pasha" n.p.
  • "Traverse Bay" n.p.
  • "Winnipeg – At Sunset" Free Press.
  • "Interesting Description, by a Descendant of the Mohawks, of Tutela Heights, Ontario" Boston Evening Transcript.

Unpublished writings

Dated manuscripts

  • 1876. "The Fourth Act"
  • 1878. "Think of Me"
  • 1879. "My Jeanie"
  • 1890. "Dear little girl from far / Beyond the seas"
  • 1901. "Morrowland" dated Holy Saturday
  • 1906. "Witchcraft and the Winner"

Undated manuscripts

  • Early fragment, "alas how damning praise can be"
  • Epigraph, "But all the poem was soul of me"
  • "The Battleford Trail" c. 1902–1903
  • "If Only I Could Know" (published as "In Days to Come")
  • "The Mouse's Message"
  • "'Old Maids' Children"
  • "The Stings of Civilization"
  • "Tillicum Talks"
  • "To C.H.W."
  • "The Tossing of a Rose"

Untraced writings

  • "Canada for the Canadians" (1902)
  • "On List of Tides" (c. 1908)
  • "Britain's First Born C."
  • "The Flying Sun"
  • "God's Laughter"
  • "Indian Church Workers"
  • "The Missing Miss Orme"
  • "The Rain"
  • "The Silent Speakers"

Titles from concert programs and reviews

  • "At the Ball" (1902–1903)
  • "Beneath the British Flag" (1906)
  • "The Captive" (1892)
  • "A Case of Flirtation" (1899)
  • "The Chief's Daughter" (1898)
  • "The Convict's Wife" (1892)
  • "Fashionable Intelligence" (1906)
  • "The Englishman" (1902–1903)
  • "Half Mast" (1897)
  • "Her Majesty's Troops" (1900); "His Majesty's Troops" (1904)
  • "His Sister's Son" (1895–1897)
  • "Legend of the Lover's Leap" (1892)
  • "Mrs Stewart's Five O'Clock Tea" (1894–1906)
  • "My Girls" (1897)
  • "People I Have Met" (1902)
  • "A Plea for the Northwest" (1892–1893)
  • "Redwing" (1892–1893)
  • "Stepping Stones" (1897)
  • "The Success of the Season" (1894–1906)
  • "The White Wampum" (1896–1897)

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