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9th Aug 2014 Posted in: Edwardian and Georgian Canadian Poets 0

[5 blank pages] Moonlight and Common Day by Louise Morey Bowman TORONTO: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY OF CANADA LIMITED, AT ST. MARTIN’S HOUSE 1922 MXMXXII [unnumbered page]    Several of hese poems have appeared in “Poetry” (Chicago), “The Outlook” (New York), “University Magazine” (Montreal), “Canadian Magazine”, “Canadian Bookman”, etc. and in the yearly book catalogues of […]

4th Aug 2014 Posted in: Edwardian and Georgian Canadian Poets 0

TO YOU [front cover] Come stand on top of the world with me! Come reach into Infinity! Together pluck a new-blown thought, Fresh from the garden of the God! Poems by ETHEL STILWELL [unnumbered page] [blank page] THE GOAL   You always may be That you really are. Waste not time living in the past […]

1st Aug 2014 Posted in: Edwardian and Georgian Canadian Poets 0

[2 blank pages] [unnumbered page; includes illustration: FIRELIGHT FANCIES Lereine Ballantyne] [blank page] Firelight Fancies [unnumbered page] [blank page] Firelight Fancies BY Lereine Ballantyne McClelland & Stewart, Limited Publishers Toronto, Canada, 1926 [unnumbered page] PRINTED IN CANADA PRESS OF THE HUNTER-ROSE CO., LIMITED Firelight Fancies [unnumbered page] [blank page] CONTENTS [unnumbered page] PAGE MEMORIES 1 GOLD […]

1st Aug 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 […]

21st Jul 2014 Posted in: The Confederation Poets 0

[blank page] MILESTONES  A Collection of Verses BY [handwritten: Mrs.] FRANCES BANNERMAN LONDON GRANT RICHARDS 9 HENRIETTE STREET 1899 [unnumbered page] Edinburgh: T. and A. CONSTABLE, Printers to Her Majesty [unnumbered page]  DEDICATION All, all was yours; no word or thought Of best endeavour or of daily things, But had in you its deep and […]

11th Jul 2014 Posted in: Others, The Confederation Poets 0

A PRELUDE   Privately Printed at Christmas 1897 [unnumbered page] [5 blank pages] A PRELUDE   Privately Printed at Christmas 1897 [unnumbered page] [blank page]   A Prelude     WATCHING the tremulous flicker of the green Against the open quiet of the sky, I hear my ancient way-fellows convene In the great wood behind […]

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

[2 blank pages] DAWN EAST AND WEST [illustration] Illustrated by W. Francis Casey by Charles A Barclay [unnumbered page] The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue ethereal sky, And spangled heavens, a shining frame, Their great Original proclaim. TO THE PATHFINDERS OF CANADA THIS WORK Is Respectfully Dedicated BY THE AUTHOR. TORONTO: THE […]

27th Jun 2014 Posted in: The Confederation Poets 0

[3 blank pages] POEMS AND SONGS ON VARIOUS SUBJECTS, BY WILLIAM BANNATYNE. “Leeze me on rhyme, it’s aye a tresure, My chief—amaist my only pleasure: At hame, a-fiel’, at wark or leisure, My Muse, kind hizzie. Tho’ rough and raplock be her measure, Is seldom lazy.”—BURNS. TORONTO: JAMES CAMPBELL & SON, [unnumbered page] [blank page] […]

26th Jun 2014 Posted in: Edwardian and Georgian Canadian Poets 0

HOWLS OF A DINGO AUSTRALIAN BUSH RHYMES BY “AIMSFELD”   VICTORIA, B.C. DIGGON PRINTING COMPANY OCTOBER, 1919 [unnumbered page] [blank page]  CONTENTS [illustration] A Pig-Hunt in New-Zealand 7 A Bush-Dream (by an ex-Australian Surveyor) 10 The Mail-Boy’s Old Pack Horse 15 The Shearer’s Last Spree (Authentic) 16 The Dude 24 A Shepherd’s Soliloquy 25 Colonial […]

23rd Jun 2014 Posted in: Uncategorized 0

SYLVIA BARNARD, born in Greenland, Mass., 1937, graduated from Northfield Massachusetts School with a classical diploma. A scholarship student, she was also and early award winner for poetry in prep school and received two Honourable Mentions in a contest sponsored by Atlantic Monthly. An Honours student in Classics at McGill, she holds the Peterson Memorial […]