AUTHORS AND SELECTIONS
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The Whitethroat (T. H. R.) 1
A
Margaret H. Alden—
Mother's World 2
Joseph Antisell Allen—
From "Daydreams" 2
Grant Allen—
Only an Insect 3
William Talbot Allison—
"There sat the Women weeping for Thammuz" 6
The Men of the North 8
Vanishings 8
Sophie M. Almon-Hensley—
Content 9
Song 10
There is no God 11
Duncan Anderson—
The Death of Wolfe 11
Sport 17
Alice M. Ardagh—
Sic Passim 20
Isidore G. Ascher—
By the Firelight 22
B
Samuel Mathewson Baylis—
In Matabele Land 23
The Coureur-de-Bois 25
John Wilson Bengough—
Sir John A. Macdonald 26
Restitution 27
Craven Langstroth Betts—
In Memoriam 28
Chaucer 30
Pope 30
Blanche Bishop—
The Bride o' the Sun 31
Winter Flowers 31
Christmas Morn 32
Edward Blackadder—
Annapolis Royal 33
Jean Blewett—
The Two Marys 33
She just keeps house for me 35
At Quebec 36
John Breakenridge—
The Troubadour 36
John Henry Brown—
The Parliament of Man 38
A Sunset 40
Edward Burrough Brownlow—
The Whippoorwill 40
The Sonnet 41
C
George Frederick Cameron—
The Golden Text 41
Is there a God? 43
On Tiptoe 43
What matters it? 43
Bliss Carman—
Low Tide on Grand Pré 45
The Gravedigger 46
The Crimson House 48
Hack and Hew 49
Phillips Brooks 51
The White Gull 52
Amos Henry Chandler—
When Dora died 59
Edward J. Chapman—
A Summer Night 60
Annie Rothwell Christie—
The Woman's Part 63
After the Battle 64
Welcome Home 66
George Herbert Clarke—
Skater and Wolves 67
To a Butterfly 68
Resentment 69
Ecclesiastes 69
A Child's Evening Hymn 69
Hugh Cochran—
Ideal 70
Hereward K. Cockin—
The Death of Burnaby 70
Sara Jeanette Duncan Cotes—
The Poet 72
Isabella Valancy Crawford—
The Master-Builder 73
The Axe of the Pioneer 73
From "The Helot" 74
The Sword 76
"These Three" 77
Francis Blake Crofton—
The Battle-Call of Anti-Christ 78
John Allister Currie—
My Mother 81
Margaret Gill Currie—
By the St John 81
Sarah Anne Curzon—
Visit of the Prince of Wales to Laura Secord 83
Invocation to Rain 85
D
Nicholas Flood Davin—
From "Eos" 87
A. B. De Mille—
The Ice King 89
Ballad 91
James De Mille—
From "Behind the Veil" 92
Edward Hartley Dewart—
Shadows on the Curtain 96
On the Ottawa 97
Frederick Augustus Dixon—
A Feather's Message 98
Hinc Illæ Lachrymæ 99
William Henry Drummond—
The Habitant's Jubilee Ode 101
John Hunter Duvar—
John A'Var's Last Lay 104
The Minnesingers Lied 106
How Balthazar the King went down into Egypt 107
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Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton—
The Egyptian Lotus 109
Purple Asters 110
Deepening the Channel 111
The Phantom Light of the Baie des Chaleurs 112
The Meadow Lands 113
My Purest Longings spring 114
I watch the Ships 114
James David Edgar—
This Canada of Ours 116
F
Constance Fairbanks—
The Junction 117
Halifax 117
Those far-off fields 118
Joseph Kearney Foran—
The Aurora Borealis 118
William Henry Fuller—
A Song of the Sea 120
G
Alexander Rae Garvie—
From "Phantasy" 121
H
Pierce Stevens Hamilton—
From "The Heroine of St John" 123
S. Frances Harrison—
Villanelle 126
Chateau Papineau 127
September 128
November 128
Theodore Arnold Haultain—
Beauty 129
Charles Heavysege—
Magnanimous and Mean 131
Night 132
The Coming of the Morn 132
The Mystery of Doom 133
John Frederic Herbin—
Simon 133
The Diver 137
Across the Dykes 137
The Sonnet 138
Annie Campbell Huestis—
Gentle-Breath 138
The Little White Sun 139
Twenty-Old and Seven-Wild 140
James C. Hodgins—
Once More 145
A Greek Reverie 146
Joseph Howe—
The Flag of Old England 147
The Deserted Nest 148
William Edward Hunt—
Golden-Rod 141
The Sea's Influence 142
The Passing of Summer 142
Richard Huntington—
Sunrise on the Tusket 142
Louisburg 144
J
Charles Edwin Jakeway—
An Unfinished Prophecy 149
E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahiońwake)—
The Song my Paddle sings 155
At Husking Time 156
Shadow River 157
Brier 158
Prairie Greyhounds 159
K
Robert Kirkland Kernighan—
The Song of the Thaw 160
Peepy is not dead 161
William Kirby—
The Marquis of Lorne's visit to the North-West 162
At Spencer Grange 163
From "The Sparrows" 163
Matthew Richey Knight—
Jacques Cartier 166
Sovereign Moments 167
The Mercy of God 167
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Archibald Lampman—
The Railway Station 168
Outlook 168
Among the Millet 169
The Loons 169
The Sun Cup 170
After Rain 170
June 172
September 174
The Goal of Life 177
Mary Jane Katzmann Lawson—
The Face in the Cathedral 177
Sophia V. Gilbert Lee—
The Brook 180
Lily Alice Lefevre—
Imprisoned 180
Inspiration 181
R. E. Mullins Leprohon—
The Huron Chief's Daughter 182
William Douw Lighthall—
The Artist's Prayer 184
The Sweet Star 186
My Native Land 186
Stuart Livingston—
The Volunteers of '85 187
To E. N. L. 188
The King's Fool 189
Keats 192
Arthur John Lockhart—
Acadie 192
The Waters of Carr 193
The Lonely Pine 194
Burton Wellesley Lockhart—
From "The Retrospect" 196
Love and Song 197
By the Gaspereau 197
John E. Logan—
The Indian Maid's Lament 198
M
Agnes Maule Machar—
William Ewart Gladstone 199
Schiller's Dying Vision 200
Love and Faith 202
A Madonna of the Entry 202
Evan MacColl—
The Child of Promise 204
Glenorchy 205
Elizabeth Roberts Macdonald—
A Song of Seasons 205
John Macfarlane—
The Two Angels 206
A Grave in Samoa 207
A Midsummer Madrigal 208
Kate Seymour Maclean—
Ballad of the Mad Ladye 208
Bird Song 210
Elizabeth S. Macleod—
Alexander Mackenzie 211
A. D. Macneill—
The Sea-Gull 212
Donald M'Caig—
The Tramp 213
James M'Carroll—
A Royal Race 215
Dawn 216
The Grey Linnet 216
William M'Donnell—
From "Manita" 217
Bernard M'Evoy—
A Photograph in a Shop Window 218
Revised Proofs 218
Thomas D'Arcy M'Gee—
Our Ladye of the Snow 219
William P. M'Kenzie—
Moonlight 224
Gabrielle 224
The Mother's Song 225
Lullaby Song 226
Alexander M'Lachlan—
Indian Summer 227
Bobolink 229
The Man who rose from Nothing 230
John M'Pherson—
The Mayflower 231
In the Woods 232
Charles Mair—
Untamed 233
The Voice of the Pines 234
The Humming Bird 236
Innocence 236
George Martin—
Shelley 238
To My Canary Bird 238
Laleet 240
Helen M. Merrill—
The Blue Flower 241
At Edgewater 243
The Promise of Spring 243
Sun-Gold 244
Susanna Moodie—
The Maple Tree 244
The Fisherman's Light 247
Mary Morgan—
"In apprehension, so like a God" 247
Charity 248
Life 248
Irene Elder Morton—
Browning 249
Completeness 250
My Garden Wall 251
In June 252
Song of the Pagan Princess 254
Song 254
Charles Pelham Mulvaney—
Poppœa 255
George Murray—
The Thistle 256
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H. M. Nickerson—
A Recollection 260
O
Cornelius O'Brien—
St Cecilia 261
Thomas O'Hagan—
Ripened Fruit 261
The Song My Mother Sings 262
P
Horatio Gilbert Parker—
I loved my Art 264
It is enough 264
Their Waving Hands 265
Amy Parkinson—
The Messenger Hours 265
Frank L. Pollock—
Ad Bellonam 268
The Trail of Gold 269
R
Andrew Ramsay—
Jephtha's Daughter 270
I will not tell 271
Atkinson's Mill 272
Theodore Harding Rand—
The Dragonfly 273
Beauty 276
Love 277
The Hepatica 277
"I Am" 278
The Veiled Presence 279
The Ghost Flower 280
Glory-Roses 280
The Carven Shores 281
Walter A. Ratcliffe—
Wanted 282
John Reade—
Rizpah 283
Pictures of Memory (i.-iv.) 285
In My Heart 286
To Louis Fréchette 288
Kings of Men 288
Dominion Day 289
Robert Reid—
Poesie 290
A Song of Canada 290
Charles George Douglas Roberts—
A Nocturne of Consecration 292
A Nocturne of Spiritual Love 295
An Ode for the Canadian Confederacy 296
Canadian Streams 297
The Silver Thaw 299
Epitaph for a Sailor Buried Ashore 300
The Train among the Hills 301
A Song of Growth 301
Sleepy Man 302
Night in a down-town Street 303
The Falling Leaves 304
An Epitaph for a Husbandman 304
Origins 305
The Wrestler 306
Recessional 307
Ascription 309
Theodore Roberts—
The Spears of Kan-Mar 309
Cold 310
The Men of my Heart's Desire 311
The Chase 312
William Carman Roberts—
History 313
An Easter Memory 313
My Comrade Canoe 314
George John Romanes—
I ask not for Thy love, O Lord 315
Carroll Ryan—
From "Malta" 316
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Charles Sangster—
England and America 318
A Living Temple 320
The Illumined Goal 321
Love's Renewal 321
'Tis Summer Still 322
Duncan Campbell Scott—
The Fifteenth of April 322
Above St Irénée 323
Off Rivière Du Loup 325
The End of the Day 326
A Flock of Sheep 326
Memory 327
Home Song 328
Life and Death 329
Ottawa 329
Frederick George Scott—
A Reverie 330
Easter Island 331
A Dream of the Prehistoric 332
Dawn 335
Van Elsen 335
Charles Dawson Shanly—
The Walker of the Snow 336
Francis Sherman—
The Builder 338
Between the Battles 339
From "The Prelude" 340
A Little While before the Fall was done 341
Goldwin Smith—
Flossy to her Mistress 341
Lyman C. Smith—
Canada to Columbia 342
From "A Day with Homer" 343
William Wye Smith—
The Canadians on the Nile 344
Albert E. Stafford Smythe—
The Forgotten Poet 345
Death the Revealer 346
Hiram Ladd Spencer—
The River 346
A Hundred Years to come 347
Ezra Hurlburt Stafford—
Chinook 348
The Strange Vessel 349
The last Orison 350
Alexander Charles Stewart—
From "The Wanderer" 351
Phillips Stewart—
Hope 351
From "Corydon and Amaryllis" 352
From "De Profundis" 353
Barry Straton—
Love's Harvest 353
Charity 354
America 356
Arthur J. Stringer—
A Song in Autumn 356
Beside the Martyr's Memorial 357
Canada to England 357
Beethoven 358
Alan Sullivan—
Venice 359
The White Canoe 360
T
Bertram Tennyson—
Gordon 361
Edward William Thomson—
A Day-Dream 363
The Song-Sparrow 364
The Bad Year 364
John Stuart Thomson—
The Vale of Estabelle 365
Even-Time 367
Late Autumn 368
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Francis L. Dominick Waters—
From "The Water Lily" 369
Arthur Weir—
A Snowshoe Song 370
Voyageur Song 372
The Little Trooper 373
Little Miss Blue Eyes 374
A Christmas Lullaby 375
Agnes Ethelwyn Wetherald—
The House of the Trees 376
At the Window 377
To February 377
The Hay Field 378
William Henry Withrow—
October 379
Cloud Castles 379
R. Walter Wright—
Easter Morn 380
A Still Small Voice 381
G. F. W.—
Sense and Spirit 382
Y
Eva Rose York—
I shall not pass this way again 382
Pamelia Vining Yule—
The Beautiful Artist 384
Warble thy lays to me 386
Notes of Authors 387
Index of First Lines 405
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