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There is an excellent use of imagery in these verses, and nature is frequently humanized. These factors will keep the reader invested throughout. This collection contains many pleasant and absorbing verses like Grant Allen's Only an Insect; Elizabeth Roberts Macdonald's A Song of Seasons; Goldwin Smith's Flossy to her Mistress; Eva Rose York's I shall not pass this way again, and many more.
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Table of Contents
PREFACE
AUTHORS AND SELECTIONS
THE WHITETHROAT
MARGARET H. ALDEN
MOTHER'S WORLD
JOSEPH ANTISELL ALLEN
From DAY-DREAMS
GRANT ALLEN
ONLY AN INSECT
WILLIAM TALBOT ALLISON
THERE SAT THE WOMEN WEEPING FOR THAMMUZ
THE MEN OF THE NORTH
VANISHINGS
SOPHIE M. ALMON-HENSLEY
CONTENT
SONG
THERE IS NO GOD
DUNCAN ANDERSON
THE DEATH OF WOLFE.
SPORT
ALICE M. ARDAGH
SIC PASSIM
ISIDORE G. ASCHER
BY THE FIRELIGHT
SAMUEL MATHEWSON BAYLIS
IN MATABELE LAND
THE COUREUR-DE-BOIS.
JOHN WILSON BENGOUGH
SIR JOHN A. MACDONALD
RESTITUTION
CRAVEN LANGSTROTH BETTS
IN MEMORIAM
CHAUCER
POPE
BLANCHE BISHOP
THE BRIDE O' THE SUN
WINTER FLOWERS
CHRISTMAS MORN
EDWARD BLACKADDER
ANNAPOLIS ROYAL
JEAN BLEWETT
THE TWO MARYS
SHE JUST KEEPS HOUSE FOR ME
AT QUEBEC
JOHN BREAKENRIDGE
THE TROUBADOUR
JOHN HENRY BROWN
THE PARLIAMENT OF MAN
A SUNSET
EDWARD BURROUGH BROWNLOW
THE WHIP-POOR-WILL
THE SONNET
GEORGE FREDERICK CAMERON
THE GOLDEN TEXT
IS THERE A GOD?
ON TIPTOE
WHAT MATTERS IT?
BLISS CARMAN
LOW TIDE ON GRAND PRÉ
THE GRAVEDIGGER
THE CRIMSON HOUSE
HACK AND HEW
PHILLIPS BROOKS
THE WHITE GULL
AMOS HENRY CHANDLER
WHEN DORA DIED
EDWARD J. CHAPMAN
A SUMMER NIGHT
ANNIE ROTHWELL CHRISTIE
THE WOMAN'S PART
AFTER THE BATTLE
WELCOME HOME
GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE
SKATER AND WOLVES
TO A BUTTERFLY
RESENTMENT
ECCLESIASTES
A CHILD'S EVENING HYMN
HUGH COCHRANE
IDEAL
HEREWARD K. COCKIN
THE DEATH OF BURNABY
SARA JEANETTE DUNCAN COTES
THE POET
ISABELLA VALANCY CRAWFORD
THE MASTER-BUILDER
THE AXE OF THE PIONEER
From THE HELOT
THE SWORD
THESE THREE
FRANCIS BLAKE CROFTON
THE BATTLE-CALL OF ANTI-CHRIST
JOHN ALLISTER CURRIE
MY MOTHER
MARGARET GILL CURRIE
BY THE ST. JOHN
SARAH ANNE CURZON
VISIT OF THE PRINCE OF WALES TO LAURA SECORD
INVOCATION TO RAIN
NICHOLAS FLOOD DAVIN
From EOS
A. B. DE MILLE
THE ICE KING
BALLAD
JAMES DE MILLE
From BEHIND THE VEIL
EDWARD HARTLEY DEWART
SHADOWS ON THE CURTAIN
ON THE OTTAWA
FREDERICK AUGUSTUS DIXON
A FEATHER'S MESSAGE
HINC ILLÆ LACHRYMÆ
WILLIAM HENRY DRUMMOND
THE HABITANT'S JUBILEE ODE
JOHN HUNTER DUVAR
JOHN A'VAR'S LAST LAY
THE MINNÉSINGERS LIED
HOW BALTHAZAR THE KING WENT DOWN INTO EGYPT
ARTHUR WENTWORTH HAMILTON EATON
THE EGYPTIAN LOTUS
PURPLE ASTERS
DEEPENING THE CHANNEL
THE PHANTOM LIGHT OF THE BAIE DES CHALEURS
THE MEADOW LANDS
MY PUREST LONGINGS SPRING
I WATCH THE SHIPS
JAMES DAVID EDGAR
THIS CANADA OF OURS
CONSTANCE FAIRBANKS
THE JUNCTION
HALIFAX
THOSE FAR-OFF FIELDS
JOSEPH KEARNEY FORAN
THE AURORA BOREALIS
WILLIAM HENRY FULLER
A SONG OF THE SEA
ALEXANDER RAE GARVIE
From PHANTASY
PIERCE STEVENS HAMILTON
From THE HEROINE OF ST JOHN
S. FRANCES HARRISON
VILLANELLE
CHÂTEAU PAPINEAU
SEPTEMBER
NOVEMBER
THEODORE ARNOLD HAULTAIN
BEAUTY
CHARLES HEAVYSEGE
MAGNANIMOUS AND MEAN
NIGHT
THE COMING OF THE MORN
THE MYSTERY OF DOOM
JOHN FREDERIC HERBIN
SIMON
THE DIVER
ACROSS THE DYKES
THE SONNET
ANNIE CAMPBELL HUESTIS
GENTLE-BREATH
THE LITTLE WHITE SUN
TWENTY-OLD AND SEVEN-WILD
WILLIAM EDWARD HUNT
GOLDEN-ROD
THE SEA'S INFLUENCE
THE PASSING OF SUMMER
RICHARD HUNTINGTON
SUNRISE ON THE TUSKET
LOUISBURG
JAMES COBOURG HODGINS
ONCE MORE
A GREEK REVERIE
JOSEPH HOWE
THE FLAG OF OLD ENGLAND
THE DESERTED NEST
CHARLES EDWIN JAKEWAY
AN UNFINISHED PROPHECY
E. PAULINE JOHNSON (TEKAHIOŃWAKE)
THE SONG MY PADDLE SINGS
AT HUSKING TIME
SHADOW RIVER
BRIER
PRAIRIE GREYHOUNDS
ROBERT KIRKLAND KERNIGHAN
THE SONG OF THE THAW
PEEPY IS NOT DEAD
WILLIAM KIRBY
THE MARQUIS OF LORNE'S VISIT TO THE NORTH-WEST
AT SPENCER GRANGE
From THE SPARROWS
MATTHEW RICHEY KNIGHT
JACQUES CARTIER
SOVEREIGN MOMENTS
THE MERCY OF GOD
ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN
THE RAILWAY STATION
OUTLOOK
AMONG THE MILLET
THE LOONS
THE SUN CUP
AFTER RAIN
JUNE
SEPTEMBER
THE GOAL OF LIFE
MARY JANE KATZMANN LAWSON
THE FACE IN THE CATHEDRAL
SOPHIA V. GILBERT LEE
THE BROOK
LILY ALICE LEFEVRE
IMPRISONED
INSPIRATION
R. E. MULLINS LEPROHON
THE HURON CHIEF'S DAUGHTER
WILLIAM DOUW LIGHTHALL
THE ARTIST'S PRAYER
THE SWEET STAR
MY NATIVE LAND
STUART LIVINGSTON
THE VOLUNTEERS OF '85
TO E. N. L.
THE KING'S FOOL
KEATS
ARTHUR JOHN LOCKHART
ACADIE
THE WATERS OF CARR
THE LONELY PINE
BURTON W. LOCKHART
From THE RETROSPECT
LOVE AND SONG
BY THE GASPEREAU
JOHN E. LOGAN
THE INDIAN MAID'S LAMENT
AGNES MAULE MACHAR
WILLIAM EWART GLADSTONE
SCHILLER'S DYING VISION
LOVE AND FAITH
A MADONNA OF THE ENTRY
EVAN MACCOLL
THE CHILD OF PROMISE
GLENORCHY
ELIZABETH ROBERTS MACDONALD
A SONG OF SEASONS
JOHN MACFARLANE
THE TWO ANGELS
A GRAVE IN SAMOA
A MIDSUMMER MADRIGAL
KATE SEYMOUR MACLEAN
BALLAD OF THE MAD LADYE
BIRD SONG
ELIZABETH S. MACLEOD
ALEXANDER MACKENZIE
A. D. MACNEILL
THE SEA-GULL
DONALD M'CAIG
THE TRAMP
JAMES M'CARROLL
A ROYAL RACE
DAWN
THE GRAY LINNET
WILLIAM M'DONNELL
From MANITA
BERNARD M'EVOY
A PHOTOGRAPH IN A SHOP WINDOW
REVISED PROOFS
THOMAS D'ARCY M'GEE
OUR LADYE OF THE SNOW
WILLIAM P. M'KENZIE
MOONLIGHT
GABRIELLE
THE MOTHER'S SONG
LULLABY SONG
ALEXANDER M'LACHLAN
INDIAN SUMMER
BOBOLINK
THE MAN WHO ROSE FROM NOTHING
JOHN M'PHERSON
THE MAYFLOWER
IN THE WOODS
CHARLES MAIR
UNTAMED
THE VOICE OF THE PINES
THE HUMMING BIRD
INNOCENCE
GEORGE MARTIN
SHELLEY
TO MY CANARY BIRD
LALEET
HELEN M. MERRILL
THE BLUE FLOWER
AT EDGEWATER
THE PROMISE OF SPRING
SUN-GOLD
SUSANNA MOODIE
THE MAPLE-TREE
THE FISHERMAN'S LIGHT
MARY MORGAN
IN APPREHENSION, SO LIKE A GOD.
CHARITY
LIFE
IRENE ELDER MORTON
BROWNING
COMPLETENESS
MY GARDEN WALL
IN JUNE
SONG OF THE PAGAN PRINCESS
SONG
CHARLES PELHAM MULVANEY
POPPŒA
GEORGE MURRAY
THE THISTLE
M. H. NICKERSON
A RECOLLECTION
CORNELIUS O'BRIEN
ST CECILIA
THOMAS O'HAGAN
RIPENED FRUIT
THE SONG MY MOTHER SINGS
GILBERT PARKER
I LOVED MY ART
IT IS ENOUGH
THEIR WAVING HANDS
AMY PARKINSON
THE MESSENGER HOURS
FRANK L. POLLOCK
AD BELLONAM
THE TRAIL OF GOLD
ANDREW RAMSAY
JEPHTHA'S DAUGHTER
I WILL NOT TELL
ATKINSON'S MILL
THEODORE HARDING RAND
THE DRAGONFLY
BEAUTY
LOVE
THE HEPATICA
I AM
THE VEILED PRESENCE
THE GHOST FLOWER
GLORY-ROSES
THE CARVEN SHORES
WALTER A. RATCLIFFE
WANTED
JOHN READE
RIZPAH
PICTURES OF MEMORY
IN MY HEART
TO LOUIS FRECHETTE
KINGS OF MEN
DOMINION DAY
ROBERT REID
POESIE
A SONG OF CANADA
CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS
A NOCTURNE OF CONSECRATION
A NOCTURNE OF SPIRITUAL LOVE
AN ODE FOR THE CANADIAN CONFEDERACY
CANADIAN STREAMS
THE SILVER THAW
EPITAPH FOR A SAILOR BURIED ASHORE
THE TRAIN AMONG THE HILLS
A SONG OF GROWTH
SLEEPY MAN
NIGHT IN A DOWN-TOWN STREET
THE FALLING LEAVES
AN EPITAPH FOR A HUSBANDMAN
ORIGINS
THE WRESTLER
RECESSIONAL
ASCRIPTION
THEODORE ROBERTS
THE SPEARS OF KAN-MAR
COLD
THE MEN OF MY HEART'S DESIRE
THE CHASE
WILLIAM CARMAN ROBERTS
HISTORY
AN EASTER MEMORY
MY COMRADE CANOE
GEORGE JOHN ROMANES
I ASK NOT FOR THY LOVE, O LORD
CARROLL RYAN
From MALTA
CHARLES SANGSTER
ENGLAND AND AMERICA
A LIVING TEMPLE
THE ILLUMINED GOAL
LOVE'S RENEWAL
'TIS SUMMER STILL
DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT
THE FIFTEENTH OF APRIL
ABOVE ST IRÉNÉE
OFF RIVIÈRE DU LOUP
THE END OF THE DAY
A FLOCK OF SHEEP
MEMORY
HOME SONG
LIFE AND DEATH
OTTAWA
GEORGE FREDERICK SCOTT
A REVERIE
EASTER ISLAND
A DREAM OF THE PREHISTORIC
DAWN
VAN ELSEN
CHARLES DAWSON SHANLY
THE WALKER OF THE SNOW
FRANCIS SHERMAN
THE BUILDER
BETWEEN THE BATTLES
From A PRELUDE
A LITTLE WHILE BEFORE THE FALL WAS DONE
GOLDWIN SMITH
FLOSSY (WITH HER OWN PORTRAIT) TO HER MISTRESS
LYMAN C. SMITH
CANADA TO COLUMBIA
From A DAY WITH HOMER
WILLIAM WYE SMITH
THE CANADIANS ON THE NILE
ALBERT E. S. SMYTHE
THE FORGOTTEN POET
DEATH THE REVEALER
HIRAM LADD SPENCER
THE RIVER
A HUNDRED YEARS TO COME
EZRA HURLBURT STAFFORD
CHINOOK
THE STRANGE VESSEL
THE LAST ORISON
ALEXANDER CHARLES STEWART
From THE WANDERER
PHILLIPS STEWART
HOPE
From CORYDON AND AMARYLLIS
From DE PROFUNDIS
BARRY STRATON
LOVE'S HARVEST
CHARITY
AMERICA
ARTHUR J. STRINGER
A SONG IN AUTUMN
BESIDE THE MARTYR'S MEMORIAL
CANADA TO ENGLAND
BEETHOVEN
ALAN SULLIVAN
VENICE
THE WHITE CANOE
BERTRAM TENNYSON
GORDON
EDWARD WILLIAM THOMSON
A DAY-DREAM
THE SONG-SPARROW
THE BAD YEAR
JOHN STUART THOMSON
THE VALE OF ESTABELLE
EVEN-TIME
LATE AUTUMN
FRANCIS L. DOMINICK WATERS
From THE WATER LILY
ARTHUR WEIR
A SNOWSHOE SONG
VOYAGEUR SONG
THE LITTLE TROOPER
LITTLE MISS BLUE EYES
A CHRISTMAS LULLABY
AGNES ETHELWYN WETHERALD
THE HOUSE OF THE TREES
AT THE WINDOW
TO FEBRUARY
THE HAY FIELD
WILLIAM HENRY WITHROW
OCTOBER
CLOUD CASTLES
R. WALTER WRIGHT
EASTER MORN
A STILL SMALL VOICE
G. F. W.
SENSE AND SPIRIT
EVA ROSE YORK
I SHALL NOT PASS THIS WAY AGAIN
PAMELIA VINING YULE
THE BEAUTIFUL ARTIST
WARBLE THY LAYS TO ME
INDEX OF FIRST LINES
PREFACE
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TO one opening this book for the first time, it may be permissible to say that the verse included in the volume does not treat solely nor chiefly of Canadian themes. While Canadian environment and life necessarily supply the note of inspiration and impart its timbre and accent, the thought and emotion are of wide range, and seek response in the universal heart.
The practical energies of the Canadian people are abundantly attested by extensive systems of railways and canals, a wide commerce, systems of free public education in the several provinces and territories, liberal facilities for the higher education of men and women, and an enterprising and influential press. Thirty-two years have passed since the organization of the Dominion of Canada. These years have witnessed great progress in civil and social institutions, and no unworthy beginning of an adequate development of the illimitable material resources of Canada's vast domain. It is noteworthy, as marking the quality of life of the people, that from the earliest settlement of the several provinces there have not been wanting public evidences of the presence of the scientific and literary spirit. The latter has expressed itself both in prose and verse, and in these recent years there is an increased activity in literary production commensurate with the expanding life of Canada.
It has been my purpose to present worthy specimens of English-Canadian verse, selected from the entire field of our history. Such a collection should be of interest, not only to Canadians, but to all English-speaking peoples. Here are reflected the singular loveliness of our evanescent spring, the glow and luxuriant life of our hasting summer, the sensuous glory of our autumn, and the tingle of our frosty air and the white winter's cheer. Every form and aspect of natural beauty is, in some degree, caught and expressed—sometimes in homely, sometimes in classical phrase; often with striking simplicity, and generally with much purity of thought and an authentic note. A sane and wholesome spirit is characteristic of the verse, and its spiritual quality seems to me to be of a high order. The sympathetic reader will notice a marked pictorial use of nature in some of the specimens given, as well as a sensuous delight in nature itself, depicted, as it is, with true feeling and not infrequently with an almost flawless art. He will notice also that nature is often humanized, and tenderness, love and pity, and the subtle problems of man's life and existence, are enshrined in original and poetic similitudes to the melody of haunting music. Nor are there altogether wanting instances of that insight and vision which beholds the phenomenal and cosmic with rapt wonder as awesome beauty-gleams, radiant symbols, or sublime manifestations of the immanent and loving One in whom all things consist. Great personalities, high achievement, and noble character, also, have inspired Canadian song. From the earliest to the latest singer, a glowing devotion to native land and a loyal and loving reverence for our gracious Sovereign are characteristic notes. If it should appear that the abundant verse inspired by these latter motives is insufficiently represented in this anthology, it may suffice to say that such verse is already widely known and is not by any means the highest product of the Canadian muse. Room has been made for the less hackneyed and richer inspirations of our poets—the virgin freshness and promise of our country; the life and deeds of men everywhere; the yearnings of the individual soul; and the aspirations of a people after the noblest and the divinest. These, with domestic loves, have kindled our singers to beautiful expression that demands a wider appreciation, as supplying sustenance and stimulus essential to fulness of national and imperial life. It will be observed that not only in recent verse, but also in that of nearly fifty years ago, Canadian poets have given expression to Anglo-centric conceptions and aspirations, divining with poetic insight the coming good.
While the selections have been carefully made, it will be apparent that some verse has been included whose chief claim to recognition is found in local and popular associations. It should also be said that much popular verse has been excluded, in order that the volume be kept of usable form and size. It did not fall within the plan of this anthology to include sacred and devotional lyrics, otherwise not a few hymns must have found a place, notably Joseph Scriven's What a Friend we have in Jesus,
known as widely as the language is spoken.
The printing together of the selections from any author has been advisedly adopted, as affording a greater variety and interest than could be secured by an abstract or logical classification of the verse of the entire volume. The convenience of an alphabetical order of authors is apparent, while the dates supplied in the Notes afford ample chronology. Here and there the reader may find unfilled dates of birth or death, or unexpanded initials of names, but all reasonable effort has been made to furnish complete and trustworthy information.
I wish to express my gratitude to Mr. Charles C. James, M.A., Deputy Minister of Agriculture for Ontario, who has given me free access to his valuable and extensive collection of the works of Canadian poets; to Mr. James Bain, Jr., of the Toronto Public Library, for special facilities for inspecting the excellent collection in his charge; and to Mr. E. S. Caswell, of the publishing house of William Briggs, for many courtesies, and specially for aid in procuring well-nigh inaccessible materials for examination. To the many persons who have so cordially responded to letters of inquiry, and whom I may not thank by name, I express my acknowledgments. The following special works have been of service: Selections from Canadian Poets(1864), by Edward Hartley Dewart; The Canadian Birthday Book(1887), by Seranus; Songs of the Great Dominion(1889), by William Douw Lighthall, M.A., and Morgan's Canadian Men and Women of the Time.
Special thanks are rendered to the authors who have permitted the use of their poems, and to the various publishers for copyright permission. I regret that I was unable to secure permission to include any poems by Mr. William Wilfred Campbell. Perhaps the selections from my own verse should not appear in the volume. Their inclusion, it is proper to say, is in deference to the wishes of persons of acknowledged taste, rather than to any desire of my own.
A Canadian by birth, education, and life-service, as were my father and his father, my mother and her mother, I may be pardoned the expression of a feeling of national pride that the materials are so abundant from which to prepare a representative volume, much of whose contents will not suffer by comparison with the verse of older countries. I trust that this anthology may serve as an open door through which the voices of Canadian singers may vibrate yet more widely on sympathetic ears both at home and abroad.
T. H. R.
Toronto, Canada,
February. 1900.
AUTHORS AND SELECTIONS
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A TREASURY
OF CANADIAN VERSE
THE WHITETHROAT
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SHY bird of the silver arrows of song,
That cleave our Northern air so clear,
Thy notes prolong, prolong,
I listen, I hear—
"I—love—dear—Canada,
Canada, Canada."
O plumes of the pointed dusky fir,
Screen of a swelling patriot heart,
The copse is all astir
And echoes thy part!...
Now willowy reeds tune their silver flutes
As the noise of the day dies down;
And silence strings her lutes,
The Whitethroat to crown....
O bird of the silver arrows of song,
Shy poet of Canada dear,
Thy notes prolong, prolong,
We listen, we hear—
"I—love—dear—Canada,
Canada, Canada."
MARGARET H. ALDEN
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MOTHER'S WORLD
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EYES of blue and hair of gold,
Cheeks all brown with summer tan,
Lips that much of laughter hold,
That is mother's little Man.
Shining curls like chestnut brown,
Long-lashed eyes, demure and staid,
Sweetest face in all the town,
That is mother's little Maid.
Dainty room with snow-white beds,
Where, like flowers with petals curled,
Rest in peace two dreaming heads,
That—is mother's little World!
JOSEPH ANTISELL ALLEN
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From DAY-DREAMS
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AH, what if the mind,
By sense-law confined,
In time, 'neath this stratum of stars,
Secretes by her spell
This fair, wondrous shell
Self-substanced, till bursting the bars
Of chrysalis time,
Free, joyous, sublime,
She mounts the blue space, winged with light,
Where, deep in the soul,
Is mirrored the whole,
As in a calm lake the pure night!
And what, if the whole
Are things of the soul,
This frame, Earth, bright Moon, garnished Skies,
If from