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

The Death of Dollard And Other Poems By John Boyd Montreal 1914 [unnumbered page] To John Reade As a slight appreciation of his invariable kindness, this booklet is respectfully dedicated to Dr. John Reade, poet and scholar, to whose generous encouragement the author owes any success that he may have achieved in the literary field. […]

28th Jun 2016 Posted in: Edwardian and Georgian Canadian Poets 0

UNCLE JIM’S CANADIAN NURSERY RHYMES [unnumbered page] [blank page]  UNCLE JIM’S CANADIAN NURSERY RHYMES For Family and Kindergarten Use [handwritten: By David Boyle –] Illustrated by C. W. Jefferys THE MUSSON BOOK CO. LIMITED London, England Toronto, CANADA [unnumbered page] [blank page] A WORD TO THE OLD FOLK NURSERY RHYMES are not necessarily either of sense […]

[inscribed] Presented to the Library of the University of Toronto, by Arthur S Bourinot, T15. January, 1916. [unnumbered page] [blank page] LAURENTIAN LYRICS AND OTHER POEMS       BY ARTHUR S. BOURINOT             TORONTO THE COPP, CLARK COMPANY, LIMITED MCMXV [unnumbered page] Copyright, Canada, 1915, by THE COPP, CLARK […]

12th Aug 2015 Posted in: Early Writing in Canada 0

[blank page] AN ADDRESS, TO THE  LIEGE MEN OF EVERY  BRITISH COLONY AND  PROVINCE  IN THE WORLD,  BY A  FRIEND TO HIS SPECIES  [inscribed] Séminaire de Québec. 1864. KINGSTON: Printed at the Herald Office 1822 [unnumbered page] [blank page] To the Liege Men of every British Colony and Province in the world, the following Poem is […]

“It is a proud thing to be a man and to feel the stir of beauty: but it is more wonderful to be a woman, and to have or to be the touch calling beauty in life.” — John Masefield. Sonnets in Memory of My Mother [unnumbered page] [unnumbered page, includes illustration] Arthur S. Bourinot […]

LYRICS FROM THE HILLS BY ARTHUR S. BOURINOT Author of Laurentian Lyrics; Poems. JAMES HOPE & SONS, LIMITED OTTAWA [unnumbered page] THIS EDITION LIMITED TO THREE HUNDRED COPIES AND TYPE DISTRIBUTED Copyright, Canada, 1923 By Arthur S. Bourinot. [unnumbered page] CONTENTS Page ENCHANTMENT 7 CANADIAN SKI-SONG 9 BEAUTIFUL BREAKS THE MORNING 11 LAURENTIAN LURE 12 […]

FRENCH-CANADIAN VERSE VICTORIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARY TORONTO, CANADA [illustration] SOURCE: [unnumbered page] [6 blank pages] FRENCH-CANADIAN VERSE [unnumbered page] [2 blank pages] [illustration] W. E. Baubie [unnumbered page] French Canadian Verse Written and Illustrated by WILLIAM EDWARD BAUBIE       CHICAGO NINETEEN HUNDRED AND SEVENTEEN [unnumbered page] French-Canadian Verse written and illustrated by William Edward […]

29th Dec 2014 Posted in: Others, Post-Confederation 0

Song of the Flowering Girls The Lark and the Reapers An Elegy on the Pious Dog Hector Conscience By REV. DR. JAMES BENNETT ST. JOHN, N.B. 1900 [unnumbered page] [These verses were not published till Dec. 7th, 1898]. SONG OF THE FLOWERING GIRLS. The distaff was displaced by the spinning-wheel, which became for many years […]

29th Dec 2014 Posted in: Edwardian and Georgian Canadian Poets 0

[2 blank pages] My Pocket Beryl [unnumbered page] [blank page] My Pocket Beryl BY Mary Josephine Benson For, piece by piece and part by part, It is the crystal-gazer’s art To find Arcana’s chambered heart. Within my beryl the signs rehearse Faint murmurings from the Universe In runes that animate my verse. McCLELLAND & STEWART, […]

14th Dec 2014 Posted in: Early Writing in Canada 0

[blank page]  MISCELLANEOUS POEMS MORAL & RELIGIOUS WRITTEN ON VARIOUS OCCASIONS BY Lydia Ann Appleton TORONTO: PRINTED AT THE “WATCHMAN” OFFICE, POST-OFFICE LANE. 1850 [unnumbered page] [blank page] PREFACE Many volumes of Poetry, written by authors whose talents are the honor and ornament of their country, are already before the public. With such productions, however, […]