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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 […]

30th Jun 2016 Posted in: Others, Post-Confederation 0

ANONYMOUS POEMS AMHERST GAZETTE ELECTRIC POWER PRINTING HOUSE, AMHERST, N. S. 1889. [unnumbered page] [blank page] PREFACE The following poems were not written with a view to publication,—although some of them have appeared in newspapers—but were composed as a relaxation from other, and more prosaic, duties, and are not now printed for the public to […]

30th Jun 2016 Posted in: Others, Post-Confederation 0

THE PSALMS OF THE The Apocalypse, BY REV. D. B. BLAIR, D. D., Barney’s River. 1893, S. M. MACKENZIE, PUBLISHER AND PRINTER, NEW GLASGOW, N. S. [unnumbered page] [illustration] The JOHN JAMES STEWART COLLECTION [unnumbered page] THE PSALMS OF THE The Apocalypse, BY REV. D. B. BLAIR, D. D., Barney’s River. 1893, S. M. MACKENZIE, […]

30th Jun 2016 Posted in: Early Writing in Canada 0

POEMS AND SONGS ON THE SOUTH AFRICAN WAR. AN ANTHOLOGY FROM ENGLAND, AFRICA, AUSTRALIA, UNITED STATES, BUT CHIEFLY CANADA. COLLECTED BY REV. J. DOUGLAS BORTHWICK. LL. D. AUTHOR OF MANY WORKS ON CANADIAN HISTORY, GEOGRAPHY AND BIOGRAPHY.—“BATTLES OF THE WORLD.”—“BORTHWICK CASTLE.”—“HARP OF CANAAN.”—“HISTORY OF SCOTTISH SONG.” ETC., ETC. MONTREAL. 1901 [unnumbered page] PRINTED BY THE […]

30th Jun 2016 Posted in: Modernist Canadian Poets 0

ADDITIONAL COPIES OF THIS CHAP-BOOK MAY BE PURCHASED FROM THE AUTHOR, JESSIE L. BEATTIE, BLAIR, ONTARIO. PRICE 75c. Published by THE RYERSON PRESS TORONTO. Copyright, Canada, 1931 By JESSIE L. BEATTIE. [handwritten: To Carl F. Klinck— Very Sincerely, Jessie L. Beattie.] [unnumbered page] Shifting Sails JESSIE L. BEATTIE THOUGHT I KNOW a stream which runs […]

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 […]

30th Jun 2016 Posted in: Others, Post-Confederation 0

POEMS Serious, Sentimental, Patriotic, —AND— HUMOROUS, —BY— JOHN BLAIR, Jun. ST. CATHARINES: PRINTED BY W. MEEK, BOOK AND JOB PRINTER. 1875. [unnumbered page] Entered according to Act of Parliament of Canada, in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventy-five, by JOHN BLAIR, in the office of the Minister of Agriculture. [unnumbered page] PREFACE. It […]

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: Others, Post-Confederation 0

[4 blank pages] [illustration] IN MEMORY OF Albert Gorton Greene OF THE CLASS OF 1820 FUND GIVEN BY Samuel Coffin Eastman OF THE CLASS OF 1857 [unnumbered page] Commonplace Sketches [unnumbered page] [blank page] CLARA E. ANDRESS [unnumbered page] [blank page] THE COMING OF SPRING ’Ere old Winter’s reign is over And the sun shines […]

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 […]