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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, […]

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

[unnumbered page, includes illustration: MOUNT ROYAL FROM THE SOUTH] Idylls of Our Island BY MYRTLE J. BOA PRICE $1.00 NET PROCEEDS DONATED TO The Canadian Red Cross Society Quebec Provincial Branch, MONTREAL [unnumbered page] PREFACE THE few views and descriptions presented in the following pages do not by any means attempt to cover the many […]

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

Heart Stories By JEAN BLEWETT [blank page] HEART STORIES BY JEAN BLEWETT Published under the distinguished patronage of the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire. WARWICK BROS. & RUTTER LIMITED TORONTO [unnumbered page] PRINTED IN CANADA 1919 [unnumbered page]    The Amelia F. Sim’s Chapter “Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire” is deeply […]

29th Jun 2016 Posted in: Others, Post-Confederation 0

[unnumbered page, includes illustration: Yours truly John Blair] COLLECTION OF RHYMES, &C., BY JOHN BLAIR [unnumbered page] [blank page] DEDICATION. To all who honor honest endeavor; To lovers of freedom, who are not afraid to work with a little talent, nor ashamed of the smallest worth; And to those who would rather brave adverse criticism […]

29th Jun 2016 Posted in: Modernist Canadian Poets 0

Signed copy To [Handwritten: Ted Wishing him Happy Days Margaret Bossance Boreham] [inside front cover] [blank page] LITTLE WHITE BOATS BY MARGARET BOSSANCE BOREHAM LONDON: ARTHUR H. STOCKWELL LTD. 29 LUDGATE HILL, E.C.4. [unnumbered page] CONTENTS. Page Little White Boats 5 New Songs 6 The Road to Yesterday 7 Young Spring 9 The Ringing of […]

Dollard A Tale In Verse [hand written: To my dear friend, W. Sherwood Fox With the gratitude And esteem of Nathanial Benson Apr. 28. 1933] [unnumbered page] DOLLARD A Tale in Verse By Nathanial A. Benson Illustrated by Walter J. Phillips TORONTO THOMAS NELSON & SONS LIMITED 1933 [unnumbered page] PRINTED IN CANADA T.H. BEST […]

HEART SONGS BY JEAN BLEWETT. TORONTO: GEORGE N. MORANG. 1897 [unnumbered page] Entered according to Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety-seven, by GEORGE N. MORANG, in the Office of the Minister of Agriculture. Printed by The Brown-Seale Printing Co. Toronto [unnumbered page] CONTENTS Page Wooing his […]

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

[unnumbered page, includes illustration: See! I am leaving now! …the eyelids close, Death’s pallor falls upon the fevered cheek— I stand beside the body as it droops Across the couch—LET LUST IN ASHES SEEK! —From The Flask of Love.] The FLASK of LOVE and OTHER POEMS By ROLAND ST. ANBECK Illustrations by ROBERT STEWART Original […]

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

The Cornflower and Other Poems BY JEAN BLEWETT Author of “Heart Songs,” etc. TORONTO WILLIAM BRIGGS 1906 [unnumbered page] Entered according to Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year one thousand nine hundred and six, by JEAN BLEWETT, at the Department of Agriculture. [unnumbered page] TO LILLIAN MASSEY TREBLE A woman with a […]

29th Jun 2016 Posted in: Modernist Canadian Poets 0

[unnumbered page, includes handwriting: To John Fair Esq. with kind regards from the author Charles Benedict 20/2/36] [blank page] WESTMOUNT IN SONG & STORY By Charles Benedict THE WESTMOUNT NEWS COMPANY Printers Westmount, P. Q. [unnumbered page] ALL RIGHTS RESERVED by CHARLES BENEDICT March, 1933 [unnumbered page] P R E F A C E FOREST […]