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5th Jul 2016 Posted in: Edwardian and Georgian Canadian Poets 0

[4 blank pages] YOUR HOME AND MINE [unnumbered page] [blank page] YOUR HOME AND MINE H A R O L D S. W O O D [illustration] The MUSSON BOOK COMPANY Ltd., TORONTO 1     9     3     2 [unnumbered page] [illustration: MUSSON MADE IN CANADA] SECOND EDITION [unnumbered page] TO EILEEN AND FRED With their father’s […]

5th Jul 2016 Posted in: Edwardian and Georgian Canadian Poets 0

OF THIS edition of By Cobequid Bay, by Alexander Louis Fraser, two hundred and fifty copies have been printed. This Chap-book is a product of The Ryerson Press, Toronto, Canada. Acknowledgments are made to The British Weekly, University Magazine, Dalhousie Review, Canadian Magazine, Acadiensis, MacLean’s and Education, in whose pages poems included in this collection […]

5th Jul 2016 Posted in: Edwardian and Georgian Canadian Poets 0

[blank page] A MEDLEY —OF— POEMS, HYMNS AND SONGS BY JAMES C. WHYTE THE PIONEER POET OF THE NORTH. AUTHOR OF The Key to the Prophecies, Things New and Old, Etc. PRINTED AT THE POST BOOK AND JOB ROOMS HANOVER, — ONT. [unnumbered page] [blank page] CONTENTS. PAGE Introduction v Figures for Learned Men viii […]

5th Jul 2016 Posted in: Edwardian and Georgian Canadian Poets 0

[handwritten: Presented To Dr. Bourner of Bruce Nov. in Toronto. An old highly esteemed and valued friend with good words and compliments of the author. Lt. Col. A. E. Belcher, Toronto, 1917] [inside front cover] [illustration: Toronto, April 11th, 1916] Lt. Col. A. E. Belcher the composer of these verses is of F. E. Loyalist […]

30th Jun 2016 Posted in: Edwardian and Georgian Canadian Poets 0

[2 blank pages] THE PERFUME HOLDER and Other Poems [unnumbered page] [blank page] THE PERFUME HOLDER AND OTHER POEMS BY CRAVEN LANGSTROTH BETTS AUTHOR OF “SONGS FROM BERANGER,” “TALES OF A GARRISON TOWN,” “THE PROMISE, ETC.” NEW YORK JAMES T. WHITE AND COMPANY 1922 [unnumbered page] [blank page] TO THE NOBILITY OF ART EVERYWHERE [unnumbered […]

SPRINGTIME and other Poems By DOROTHY R. BENNETT LONDON ARTHUR H. STOCKWELL, LTD. 19 LUDGATE HILL, E.C.4 [unnumbered page] CONTENTS PAGE SPRINGTIME 3 TO A BIRD 3 COME 4 THE BLIZZARD 5 THE SUNSET 6 DREAMS 7 FOR WHATSOEVER A MAN SOWETH THAT SHALL HE ALSO REAP 8 WAR 9 FRIENDS 10 FOUR THINGS 10 […]

30th Jun 2016 Posted in: Edwardian and Georgian Canadian Poets 0

[2 blank pages] FOR OUR BUREAU [unnumbered page] [blank page] FOR OUR BUREAU BEING THE BUREAU BALLADS CONTRIBUTED TO VOLUMES ONE AND TWO OF “VIA VANCOUVER,” THE JOURNAL OF THE FOREIGN TRADE BUREAU OF THE VANCOUVER BOARD OF TRADE BY THE SECRETARY, HERBERT BEEMAN. [illustration] Vancouver, B. C.: COWAN BROOKHOUSE, LIMITED 1924 [unnumbered page] [blank […]

New Songs by Margaret Bossance Boreham [unnumbered page] [blank page] NEW SONGS There are no songs to sing I’ve sung them all, The songs of Joy and Pain; And I would fain A new song to you bring. A blackbird’s call, A thrush’s cheery trill, The babbling rill— The carillons that from tall towers ring— […]

29th Jun 2016 Posted in: Edwardian and Georgian Canadian Poets 0

[2 blank pages] “And You!” By KIM BEATTIE [illustration] TORONTO: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY OF CANADA LIMITED, AT ST. MARTIN’S HOUSE 1929 [unnumbered page] PRINTED IN CANADA T.H. BEST PRINTING CO., LIMITED TORONTO, ONT. [unnumbered page] To PETER [unnumbered page] I do not seek to stir an old stern sorrow Nor probe old wounds of grieving […]

29th Jun 2016 Posted in: Edwardian and Georgian Canadian Poets 0

[illustration] The Wanderer By Nathaniel A. Benson INVOCATION I NOT FOR the weak, submissive souls Life’s lightning leaps, doom’s thunder rolls, For dully, slowly comes the breath Of men whose love would dare not death, Who would not raise in ecstasy A desperate cup eternally And drink to life, that mistress stern Whose wonders fade, […]