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Emily Pauline Johnson (Эмили Полин Джонсон)


Brier - Good Friday


    Because, dear Christ, your tender, wounded arm
        Bends back the brier that edges life's long way,
    That no hurt comes to heart, to soul no harm,
        I do not feel the thorns so much to-day.

    Because I never knew your care to tire,
        Your hand to weary guiding me aright,
    Because you walk before and crush the brier,
        It does not pierce my feet so much to-night.

    Because so often you have hearkened to
        My selfish prayers, I ask but one thing now,
    That these harsh hands of mine add not unto
        The crown of thorns upon your bleeding brow.



Emily Pauline Johnson's other poems:
  1. The Indian Corn Planter
  2. The Idlers
  3. The Homing Bee
  4. Re-Voyage
  5. Calgary of the Plains


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