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16th Nov 2014 Posted in: Others, Post-Confederation 0

[illustration] Dallhousie College Library The JOHN JAMES STEWART COLLECTION [unnumbered page] Chebucto AND OTHER POEMS BY JOHN ALLISON BELL (FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION) HALIFAX, N. S. PRINTED BY JAMES BOWES & SONS, 125 HOLLUS STREET. 1890. [unnumbered page] [blank page] CONTENTS ANTHEM (sung at Public Gardens) 33 APOSTROPHE 47 ACROSTIC (Dr. Honeyman) 51 AUTUMN (Sonnet) 53 […]

23rd Oct 2014 Posted in: Edwardian and Georgian Canadian Poets 0

On Active Service Oliver E. Baillie Canadian Field Artillery [unnumbered page] [blank page] 1. THE CALL. The nations had pledged their honour That the lamb should not be shorn, When a shot rang round a startled world, And a scrap of paper was torn. And Liege flamed up as a beacon, A call for help […]

18th Oct 2014 Posted in: Early Writing in Canada 0

[blank page] PRO AND CON: A SATIRICO-POLITICAL DIALOGUE IN FAMILIAR RHYME: PARTLY IMITATED FROM THE LATIN OF HORACE, AND DEDICATED (WITHOUT PERMISSION) TO THE LATE GRAND JURY. Primum ego me illorum dederim quibus esse Poetas Excerpam numero: neque enim concludere versum Dixeris esse satis; neque, si quis scribat, uti nos, Sermoni propriora, putes hunc esse […]

17th Oct 2014 Posted in: Modernist Canadian Poets 0

UNDER COUNTRY SKIES by Helen B. Anderson [illustration] Published at Toronto, 1933 by THE WRITER’S STUDIO [unnumbered page] To the Memory of My Husband [unnumbered page] Contents The First Ploughing 5 In Memory 7 Hepaticas 9 I Wonder 11 They Will Come Back 12 Weaver 13 Easter 14 April Days 15 To a Rose 16 A […]

12th Sep 2014 Posted in: Edwardian and Georgian Canadian Poets 0

POEMS BY F.H. BARNES TORONTO WILLIAM BRIGGS 1912 [unnumbered page] Copyright, Canada, 1912 BY WILLIAM BRIGGS [unnumbered page] Go forth, my verses, and win friends for me; Their faces I perchance may never see, But should my book prove worthy of its claim There will be some to brighten at my name, And, turning o’er […]

3rd Sep 2014 Posted in: Others, Post-Confederation 0

DAYBREAK A POEM BY GEORGE FAIRLEY BECK. “Time, the likeness of a guide, Leads the Republic, as a bride, Up to God’s side.” SWINBURNE. [unnumbered page] JOSEPH MAZZINI THIS TRIFLE IS INSCRIBED. [unnumbered page] DAYBREAK. [unnumbered page] I. Behold! O soul of man, the morning break— The night, that wrapped thee long, hath passed away; […]

27th Aug 2014 Posted in: Edwardian and Georgian Canadian Poets 0

[3 blank pages] The Spell of the Yukon and  Other Verses [unnumbered page]  [blank page] The Spell of the Yukon  And Other Verses BY ROBERT W. SERVICE         NEW YORK DODD, MEAD & COMPANY PUBLISHERS [unnumbered page] COPYRIGHT, 1907 BY DODD, MEAD & COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1916 BY DODD, MEAD & COMPANY   […]

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

[4 blank pages] Rhymes of a Rolling Stone [unnumbered page] [blank page] Rhymes of a Rolling Stone     BY ROBERT W. SERVICE Author of “Songs of a Sourdough,” “Ballads of a Cheechako,” “The Trail of ’98”         TORONTO WILLIAM BRIGGS 1912 [unnumbered page] Copyright, Canada, 1912, by ROBERT W. SERVICE Copyright, […]

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

[2 blank pages] Rhymes of  a Red Cross Man [unnumbered page] [blank page]  RHYMES of a  RED CROSS MAN     By ROBERT W. SERVICE   Author of ‘Songs of a Sourdough,” “Ballads of a Cheechako,” “Rhymes of a Rollings Stone,” and “The Trail of ‘98”         TORONTO: WILLIAM BRIGGS 1916 [unnumbered page] […]

10th Aug 2014 Posted in: Early Writing in Canada 0

[4 blank pages] NOTHING TO YOU. [unnumbered page] [2 blank pages] [unnumbered page, includes illustration: Searching a lady’s band-boxes] NOTHING TO YOU; OR, MIND YOUR OWN BUSINESS; IN ANSWER TO “NOTHINGS” in general, and “NOTHING TO WEAR” in particular. BY KNOT-RAB. With Illustrations by J. H. Howard. NEW YORK: WILEY & HALSTED, No. 851 Broadway. […]