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27th Mar 2014 Posted in: Others, The Confederation Poets 0

AUTHOR’S PREFACE.  It is with grateful pleasure that I send out this the fourth edition of my poems, comprising in all SEVEN THOUSAND COPIES. I cannot complain, as some others have done, that Canada lacks appreciation of her writers, for I have had proofs, verbal and written, that many warm friends are mine in Canada, […]

25th Mar 2014 Posted in: Edwardian and Georgian Canadian Poets 0

[7 blank pages] THE OLD TIMER [illustration] AND OTHER POEMS ROBERT T. ANDERSON [unnumbered page] Copyright 1909 by ROBERT T. ANDERSON Published by Edmonton Printing & Publishing Co. Ltd. [unnumbered page] PREFACE THE bulk of the poems which appear in this little volume have at different times seen the light in one or other of […]

21st Mar 2014 Posted in: Modernist Canadian Poets 0

COUNTERPOINT TO SLEEP by Anne Wilkinson      Anne Wilkinson began writing verse about six years ago, when she was in her late twenties.  Her work soon came to the attention of Canadian editors, and poems of hers began to appear in Reading, Contemporary Verse, Here and Now and other magazines.  Among the first to recognize […]

21st Mar 2014 Posted in: Edwardian and Georgian Canadian Poets 0

[2 blank pages] BLUE HOMESPUN Frank Oliver Call [unnumbered page] OTHER WORKS BY FRANK OLIVER CALL In a Belgian Garden Acanthus and Wild Grape [unnumbered page] Blue Homespun By FRANK OLIVER CALL Illustrated by ORSON S. WHEELER THE RYERSON PRESS TORONTO [unnumbered page] Copyright, Canada, 1924 by THE RYERSON PRESS [unnumbered page] Page A SONNET […]

19th Mar 2014 Posted in: Edwardian and Georgian Canadian Poets 0

Selections from SONNETS To GABRIEL [illustration] By CONSTANCE DAVIES WOODROW CHRISTMAS GREETINGS 1931 XI Metamorphosis I who was born a wildling of the Spring— Endowed with lyric mirth and ecstasy, Made kin to every winged or leaping thing, To every glowing flower and pulsing tree,— Because of you forsake my pagan ways, Put off my […]

19th Mar 2014 Posted in: Edwardian and Georgian Canadian Poets 0

[7 blank pages] LAW LYRICS BY E. DOUGLAS ARMOUR, K.C. TORONTO: CANADA LAW BOOK COMPANY, LIMITED 1918 [unnumbered page] TABLE OF CONTENTS. To the Reader 7 Mr. Justice Shallow 9 Past and Present 12 The Student’s Dream 16 The Registrar’s Dream 18 The Squib 20 The Family Solicitor 25 The Six Carpenters 27 Ye Barristers […]

14th Mar 2014 Posted in: Edwardian and Georgian Canadian Poets 0

CAPTIVE AND OTHER POEMS By CONSTANCE DAVIES WOODROW To Dr. S. P. Feuster with best wishes from yours fraternally Constance Davies Woodrow Christmas Greetings 1930 [unnumbered page] Second Dawn  I who had thought to love you with such joy, Fall strangely into all my maiden-ways, And, with the hush of twilight on my heart, Stand […]

14th Mar 2014 Posted in: Edwardian and Georgian Canadian Poets 0

THE FLUTE AND OTHER POEMS by Katherine Hale TORONTO • The RYERSON PRESS [cover] This is Chap-Book 142 OOF THIS EDITION OF THE FLUTE AND OTHER POEMS, BY KATHERINE HALE, FIVE HUNDRED COPIES ONLY HAVE BEEN PRINTED. Copyright, Canada, 1950, by The Ryerson Press, Toronto. Katherine Hale (Mrs. John Garvin) is a well-known poet. Her first […]

14th Mar 2014 Posted in: Edwardian and Georgian Canadian Poets 0

THE RHYME GARDEN WRITTEN AND ILLUSTRATED BY MARGUERITE BULLER ALLAN LONDON: JOHN LANE THE BODLY HEAD NEW YORK: JOHN LANE COMPANY TORONTO: S.B. GUNDY MCMXVII [illustration] [unnumbered page] WM. BRENDON AND SON, LTD., PRINTERS, PLYMOUTH, ENGLAND [unnumbered page] [illustration] CONTENTS PAGE SONGS FOR A PENNY 13 AT THE ZOO 15 THE SCARECROW 17 AN AMBITIOUS […]

13th Mar 2014 Posted in: Edwardian and Georgian Canadian Poets 0

[2 blank pages] The Maple Grove And Other Poems By Melita Aitken WARWICK BROS. & RUTTER, LIMITED PRINTERS                                  TORONTO [unnumbered page] COPYRIGHT, CANADA, 1920 BY MELITA AITKEN PRINTED IN CANADA [unnumbered page] TO MY COUNTRY AND TO THE MEMORY OF MY DEAR PARENTS [unnumbered page] [blank page] CONTENTS PRIMUS PAGE DEAR CANADA 9 LOYALTY 10 […]