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[illustration] Isabella Valancey Crawford [unnumbered page] OLD SPOOKSES’ PASS MALCOLM’S KATIE, AND OTHER POEMS, BY ISABELLA VALANCY CRAWFORD. —AUTHOR OF— A LITTLE BACCHANTE, OR SOME BLACK SHEEP, ETC., ETC., ETC. [unnumbered page]         Entered according to the Act of Parliament of Canada, in the year eighteen hundred and eighty-four, by ISABELLA VALANCY CRAWFORD, in the Office […]

30th Aug 2022 Posted in: Edward Cox, The Confederation Poets 0

Thoughts by the Way. [unnumbered page] [blank page] THOUGHTS BY THE WAY. BY EDWARD COX. ————————— “O sweet! to stray an’ pensive ponder A heartfelt sang.”—Burns. ————————— Toronto: PRINTED BY C. BLACKETT ROBINSON, 5 JORDAN ST. 1886 [unnumbered page] [blank page] PREFACE. IT is not without some hesitation that I have ultimately yielded to the […]

30th Aug 2022 Posted in: The Confederation Poets, Thomas Cowherd 0

THE Emigrant Mechanic, —AND— OTHER TALES IN VERSE, —TOGETHER WITH— Numerous Songs upon Canadian Subjects, —BY— THOMAS COWHERD, THE BRANTFORD TINSMITH RHYMER. —————— PUBLISHED BY THE AUTHOR, Brantford, Ontario. —————— JACKSON, MICH.: DAILY CITIZEN AND JOB PRINTING HOUSE, 1884. [unnumbered page] PREFACE. ——      The Author of this volume does not feel much apology […]

30th Aug 2022 Posted in: Mrs. John Crawford, The Confederation Poets 0

[4 blank pages] [illustration] [handwritten: from very truly Mrs J. Crawford] [unnumbered page] SONGS OF ALL SEASONS, CLIMES AND TIMES, A MOTLEY JINGLE OF JUMBLED RHYMES. BY MRS. JOHN CRAWFORD. [illustration] Toronto: ROSE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 1890. [unnumbered page] [illustration] Entered according to the Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year one thousand eight […]

30th Aug 2022 Posted in: Annie Ironside Cowan, The Confederation Poets 0

Vancouver Island AND OTHER POEMS Annie Ironside Cowan [unnumbered page] VANCOUVER ISLAND Vancouver—isle whose beauty thrills my heart,     Isle—that God’s hand has made “a thing apart”; He fused this gem superb, and set it fair     In Britain’s diadem to sparkle there. Thy huge upstanding firs, the towering might     Of […]

The RUFUS HATHAWAY COLLECTION Of CANADIAN LITERATURE THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK LIBRARY [illustration: “My Masters and Companions, my Books” Rufus Hawtin Hathaway] [inside front cover] That Most Persistent Beggar By A Commercial Traveller (With apologies to Mr. Rudyard Kipling.) [illustration] The Packard Electric Co., Limited, Publishers, ST. CATHARINES, CANADA 1900 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED[unnumbered page] […]

The     Acadian                 Exile [illustration] Jeremiah S. Clark [unnumbered page] [unnumbered page, includes illustration: Home, as it was before August 10th, ’01. See page 55.] THE ACADIAN EXILE AND SEA SHELL ESSAYS BY JEREMIAH S. CLARK ———— CHARLOTTETOWN, P. E. ISLAND Printed by Archibald Irwin, Richmond […]

25th Jul 2022 Posted in: Archibald Lampman, The Confederation Poets 0

Introduction Letter 1 [1884] Letter 2 [1884] Letter 3 [1884] Letter 4 [1884] Letter 5 [1885] Letter 6 [1885] Letter 7 [1885] Letter 8 [1886] Letter 9 [1888] Letter 10 [1888] Letter 11 [1890] Letter 12 [1891] Letter 13 [1896] Letter 14 [1897] Appendix Works Cited

24th Sep 2021 Posted in: Margaret Gill Currie, The Confederation Poets 0

JOHN SAINT JOHN AND ANNA GREY A Romance of Old New Brunswick BY MRS. MARGARET GILL CURRIE TORONTO PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR BY WILLIAM BRIGGS WESLEY BUILDINGS 1897 [unnumbered page] ENTERED according to Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year one         thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, by WILLIAM BRIGGS, […]

23rd Sep 2021 Posted in: John Allister Currie, The Confederation Poets 0

Virginibus puerisque canto.—Horace. Lib. iii. Ode I. A QUARTETTE OF LOVERS.                                                    We will live, my love, and play,                         […]