Selections from Canadian PoetsEdward Hartley Dewart |
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ALAZON angels Auvergne beam beauty beneath birds blessed bloom bosom brave Break o'er breast breath bright brow calm Canada Canada East Canadian Canadian poetry CHARLES HEAVYSEGE CHARLES SANGSTER cheer clouds cold dark death deep dream earth fair feel flowers forest gather GEORGE MARTIN gleam glide gloom glory glow golden gone green hand hath hear heart heaven hill holy hope hour Jacques Cartier JOHN READE lake land life's light lone mighty morn mournful native Nature's neath never night o'er the sea Old Woods Omemee Owen Sound PAYNE FORD poet poetry pride rills RIVER GARNOCK Saint Malo shadows shining shore sigh silent sing Sisera skies sleep smile snow song sorrow soul spirit stars stream summer sweet tears thee thine Thou art thought throne toil trees truth voice wander waves way-marks weary Whip-poor-Will wild winds wings
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Page 27 - Tho' no earthly friend is near. There's no one left to love her now, But the eye that never sleeps Looks on her in love From the heavens above, And with quiet joy she weeps; For she feels the balm of bliss is poured In her lone heart's deepest rut; And the widow lone On the old gray stone Has a peace the world knows not.
Page 129 - Neath the green spreading bowers, With the gems and the jewels May brings ; In the light of her eyes And the depth of her dyes, We'll smile at the purple of kings. We'll throw...
Page vii - McLachlan are quite unlike, and each possesses a strongly marked individuality of his own, any comparison between them is inappropriate, and might be unfair to both. In elaborate elegance and wealth of descriptive power, in the success with which...
Page xvi - And the daisy deck'd with pearls, Richer than the proudest Earls On their mantles wear. These thy preachers of the wild-wood, Keep they not the heart of childhood, Fresh within us still. Spite of all our life's sad story, There are gleams of Thee and glory, In the daffodil.
Page 73 - twas a smiling morn in May, When the Commodore Jacques Cartier to the westward sailed away; In the crowded old cathedral all the town were on their knees For the safe return of kinsmen from the undiscovered seas...
Page 73 - Cartier to the westward sailed away ; But no tidings from the absent had come the way they went, And tearful were the vigils that many a maiden spent ; And manly hearts were...
Page 92 - But we who know thee, proudly point the hand Where thy broad rivers roll serenely grand — Where, in still beauty 'neath our northern sky, Thy lordly lakes in solemn grandeur lie, — Where old Niagara's awful voice has given The flood's deep anthem to the ear of heaven Through the long ages of the vanished past, Through Summer's bloom, and Winter's angry blast Nature's proud utterance of unwearied song, Now, as at first, majestic, solemn, strong, And ne'er to fail, till the archangel's cry Shall...
Page xiii - The stars are heaven's ministers, Right royally they teach God's glory and omnipotence In wondrous lowly speech. All eloquent with music as The tremblings of a lyre, To him that hath an ear to hear They speak in words of fire. "Not to learned sagas only Their whisperings come down ; The monarch is not glorified Because he wears a crown...
Page 91 - Fair land of peace ! — to Britain's rule and throne Adherent still, yet happier than alone, And free as happy, and as brave as free, Proud are thy children — justly proud, of thee ! Thou hast no streams renowned in classic lore, No vales where fabled heroes moved of yore, No hills where Poesy enraptured...
Page 231 - Neither tears nor prayers can bribe! For this have the Chieftains gathered, Great chiefs from the wilds afar; They have prayed to Manitou freely, And saluted the Bridal Star. All things for the feast...