Pauline Johnson Poetry

Measures of oil for othersOil and red wineLips laugh and drink but neverare the lips mineworlds at the feet of otherspower gods have knowHearts for the favored round memine beats alonefame offering to otherschaplets of baysI with no crown of laurelsonly grey dayssweet human love for othersdeep as the seaGod sent unto my neighborBut not to meSometime I will wrest from othersmore than all thisI shall demand from heavenFar sweeter...

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