The Garden of the Mind: An Introduction to Early American Indian Poetry POEMS Eleazar In obitum Viri verè Reverendi D. Thomae Thacheri, Qui Ad Dom. ex h'c Vit' migravit, 18.8.1678 English translation: On the death of that truly venerable man D. Thomas Thacher [written 1678, published 1702 Jane Johnston Schoolcraft (Ojibwe) Pensive Hours [written 1820, published 1962] The Contrast [written 1823 and possibly later, published 2007] Invocation To my Maternal Grandfather On hearing his descent from Chippewa ancestors misrepresented [written 1823, published 1860] To the Pine Tree on first seeing it on returning from Europe Translation [English translation of "To the Pine Tree"] [2007] By an Ojibwa Female Pen, Invitation to sisters to a walk in the Garden, after a shower [written by 1826, published 1962] Lines to a Friend Asleep [written by 1827, published 1962] To my ever lamented and beloved son William Henry [written 1827, published 1962] To the Miscodeed [2007] On Meditation [2007] Sweet Willy [written 1835 or later, published 2007] Lines written at Castle Island, Lake Superior [written 1838, published 2007] On leaving my children John and Jane at School, in the Atlantic states, and preparing to return to the interior [written 1838 or 1839, published 1851] English translation of "On leaving my children . " [2007] William Walker, Jr. (Wyandot) ["Oh, give me back my bended bow"] [written approximately in the 1820s, published 1882 and perhaps earlier] The Wyandot''s Farewell [written 1843, published 1882 and perhaps earlier] Israel Folsom (Choctaw) Lo! The Poor Indian''s Hope [written perhaps around 1831, published 1875] An Indian (Jesse Bushyhead?) (Cherokee) The Indian''s Farewell [1848] John Rollin Ridge / Yellow Bird (Cherokee) An Indian''s Grave [1847] Reflections Irregular [1848] My Harp [1848] Song ("Come to the river''s side, my love") [1848] Song ("I saw her once--her eye''s deep light") [1848] The Man of Memory [1848] "The man twenty feet high .

" [1848] The Dark One to His Love [1849] The Still Small Voice ("There is a voice more dear to me") [1851] The Humboldt Desert [1867] Mount Shasta [1853, 1854, 1868] The Atlantic Cable [1868] Humboldt River [1860, 1868] To a Star Seen at Twilight [1849, 1868] The Forgiven Dead [1868] To a Mocking Bird Singing in a Tree [1868] The Rainy Season in California [1868] The Harp of Broken Strings [1850, 1868] October Hills [1867, 1868] To the Beautiful [1868] A Night Scene [1868] False, but Beautiful [1868] To L------ on Receiving Her Portrait [1868] The Stolen White Girl [1868] Poem ("The waves that murmur at our feet") [1868] Erinna [1848, 1868] Lines on a Humming Bird Seen at a Lady''s Window [1868] Poem ("All hail, the fairest, greatest, best of days!") [1868] A Scene Along the Rio de las Plumas [1868] The Still Small Voice ("Alas, how every thing will borrow") [1848, 1851,1868] Eyes [1853, 1868] Te-con-ees-kee (Cherokee) Suggested by the report, in the Advocate, of the laying of the corner stone of the Pocahontas Female Seminary--Cherokee Nation [1848] ["Though far from thee Georgia in exile I roam"] [1848] Si-tu-a-kee, Jr. (Cherokee) To the Tahlequah Gals [1850] William Penn Boudinot (Cherokee) ["There is a spectre ever haunting"] [1851] Tso-le-oh-woh (Cherokee) A Red Man''s Thoughts [1853] What an Indian Thought When He Saw the Comet [1853] C. H. Campbell (Cherokee) ["Our tribe could once of many warriors boast"] [1855] Former Student of the Cherokee Male Seminary (Cherokee) The Rose of Cherokee [1855] Joshua Ross (Cherokee) My Ruling Star [1855] Sequoyah [1856] The Wanderer [1856] On a Lady''s Eyes [1859] Peter Perkins Pitchlynn (Choctaw) Song of the Choctaw Girl [undated, probably 1850s, published 1972] ["Will you go with me"] [undated, probably 1856 or 1857, published 1972] John Gunter Lipe (Cherokee) To Miss Vic [written 1861, published 1921] Anonymous Cherokee (Cherokee) ["Faster and fiercer rolls the tide"] [1871] David J. Brown (Cherokee) Sequoyah [1879] James Harris Guy (Chickasaw) ["The white man wants the Indian''s home"] [1878] Lament of Tishomingo [1879] Old Boggy Depot [written about 1881, published 1927] Fort Arbuckle [written 1885 or earlier, published 1891] John Lynch Adair (Cherokee) Hec Dies: An Imitation [1877] Joy Returneth with the Morning [1889] John Palmer (Chemakum, Skokomish) [I Remember You] [1880] Joseph Lynch Martin (Cherokee) A Dream [1881] 152 Stanzas by Uncle Joe [1891] Wenonah (Cherokee) Thanksgiving [1886] Hors de Combat (Cherokee) ["I''ve returned to home and scanty lunch"] [1887] Alexander Posey (Creek [Muskogee]) O, Oblivion! [probably 1894] Ye Men of Dawes [probably 1894] ["To allot, or not to allot"] [written 1894, published 2008] Wildcat Bill [1894] ["In UNCLE SAM''S Dominion"] [1895] Cuba Libre [1896] Callie [2008] The Squatter''s Fence [written about 1897, published 2008] To Our Baby, Laughing [written about 1897, published 2008] The Two Clouds [probably 1897] The Idle Breeze [written 1897, published 2008] My Fancy [written 1897, published 2008] To a Hummingbird [1897] To the Crow [written 1897, published 2008] The Bluebird [2008] Coyote [2008] Sunset [written 1898, published 2008] The Legend of the Red Rose [probably written 1898, published 1910] To a Morning Warbler [1899] Eyes of Blue and Brown [written 1898, published 2008] Flowers [written 1898, published 2008] The Deer [written 1898, published 2008] When Love Is Dead [1900] Say Something [2008] Tulledega [published about 1900] The Arkansas River [written about 1900, published 2008] Ode to Sequoyah [1899] An Outcast [1899] The Decree [1900] On the Capture and Imprisonment of Crazy Snake, January, 1901 [1910] The Fall of the Redskin [1901] Saturday [1901] On Hearing a Redbird Sing [1902] It''s Too Hot [1903] A Freedman Rhyme [1905] On Viewing the Skull and Bones of a Wolf [2008] A Vision of Rest [1910] William Abbott Thompson (Cherokee) You Can Always Tell [1895] Rufus Buck (Yuchi) My dream [written 1896, published 1898] 179 James Roane Gregory (Euchee [Yuchi], Muskogee [Creek]) The Promised Seal [1895] Otheen, Okiyetos [1895] Rain [1895] Storm Lights [1895] The Green Corn Dance [1900] Nineteenth Century Finality [1900] Kingfisher (Cherokee) After the Curtis Bill Passes [1898] J. C. Duncan (Cherokee) The Red Man''s Burden: Parody on Kipling''s Poem [1899] Richard C. Adams (Delaware [Lenape]) To the American People [1899] A Delaware Indian Legend [1899] To the Delaware Indians [1899] Too-qua-stee / De Witt Clinton Duncan (Cherokee) The White Man''s Burden [1899] The Dead Nation [1899] A Vision of the End [1899] Cherokee Memories [1900] Truth Is Mortal [1901] A Christmas Song [1901] Sequoyah [1904] My Mother''s Ring [1904] Dignity [1904] Labor [1904] Indian Territory at World''s Fair [1904] Thanksgiving [1904] Olivia Ward Bush-Banks (Montaukett) On the Long Island Indian [1890] Morning on Shinnecock [1899] A Hero of San Juan [1899] Symbols [written after 1900, published 1991] Filled with You [written after 1900, published 1991] Regret [1905] Heart-Throbs [1914] BOARDING SCHOOL POEMS -Adin C.

Gibbs (Delaware [Lenape]) The Cornwall Seminary [1822] -Corrinne (Cherokee) Our Wreath of Rose Buds [1854] -Lily Lee (Cherokee) Literary Day Among the Birds [1855] -N. (Cherokee) [Farewell] ("To school-mates dear, to teachers kind") [1855] -Emma Lowrey Williams (Cherokee) Life [written 1855, published 1922] -Elsie Fuller (Omaha) A New Citizen [1887] -Samuel Sixkiller (Cherokee) To Class ''95 [1895] [My First Winter Out of School] [1896] -Melinda Metoxen (Oneida) Iceland [1896] -J. William Ettawageshik (Ottawa) The Glow-Worm [1911] -Anonymous Carlisle student My Industrial Work [1913] -Lillian Simons (Mashpee) Silhouettes--Guess [1913] -Maude Cooke (Mohawk) and Agnes Hatch (Chippewa) Our Cottage [1917] -Francis L. Verigan (Tlingit) Be a Carlisle Student [1917] The Martyrdom of Funny Face [1918] -Tyler Young (Arapaho) Just Imagine [1920] Mabel Washbourne Anderson (Cherokee) Nowita, the Sweet Singer [1900] Henry B. Sarcoxie (Delaware [Lenape]) In the Desert [1900] Up the Washita [1900] Evalyn Callahan Shaw (Creek [Muskogee]) October [1900] Laura Minnie Cornelius (Oneida) A Tribute to the Future of My Race [1903] Hen-toh / Bertrand N. O. Walker (Wyandot) A Mojave Lullaby [1903, 1905, 1924] Pontiac [1906] A Desert Memory [1906, 1924] A Song of a Navajo Weaver [1906, 1916, 1924] A Wyandot Cradle Song [1910, 1924] Arrow-Heads [1915, 1924] The Warrior''s Plume [1915, 1924] A Strand of Wampum [1915] The Calumet [1919, 1924] My Fren'' [1924] Injun Summa [1924] The Seasons [1924] Fishin'' [1924].