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Lonely, open, vast and free, The dark’ning desert lies; The wind sweeps o’er it fiercely, And the yellow sand flies.…
Bertrand Nicholas Oliver Walker, who published his poems under his Wyandot name, Hen-toh, was born in 1870. A member of the Oklahoma band of the Big Turtle Clan, he attended the Seneca Indian School and the public school in Seneca, Missouri. Walker took on an independent study for four years under the tutelage of a college professor local to his community. Walker is the author of the poetry collection Yon-Doo-Shah-We-Ah (Nubbins) (Harlow, 1924) and Tales of the Bark Lodges (Harlow, 1919), a book of Wyandot animal stories. He worked as an educator for many hears, and was the chief clerk of the Quapaw Agency in Miami, Oklahoma, at the time of his death in 1927.
Bertrand N. O. Walker şiirleri
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Light o’ the lodge, how I love thee, Light o’ the lodge, how I love thee, Mianza, my wild-wood fawn! To wait and to watch for thy passing.…
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For ages long, my people have been Dwellers in this land; For ages viewed these mountains, Loved these mesas and these sands,…
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Hush thee and sleep, little one, The feathers on thy board sway to and fro; The shadows reach far downward in the water The great old owl is waking, day will go.…
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On the plains and in the vales of Oklahoma, Grew a flower of the Tyrian hue, The color that is loved by the Redman, That tells him light and life,…