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22nd Jun 2014 Posted in: Uncategorized 0

[2 blank pages] A FAIRY’S GARLAND OF B.C. FLOWERS  BY DOROTHEA ALLISON [illustration] ILLUSTRATED BY janet— [unnumbered page] ERRATA A Fairy Enters—The first line should read: The A.B.C. I never knew Yellow Buttercups—The botanical name should read: Ranunculus Glaberimus Sunflowers—The botanical name should read: Balsamorrhiza Sagittata [unnumbered page]  PRINTED IN CANADA BY THE VERNON NEWS […]

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

[2 blank pages] POEMS of LIFE [unnumbered page] [blank page] POEMS of LIFE By GEORGE TAYLOR BAILEY, M.D. FORMERLY CAPT., C.A.M.C. MEMBER CANADIAN AUTHORS’ ASSOCIATION MEMBER MICHIGAN AUTHORS’ ASSOCIATION [illustration] WARWICK BROS. & RUTTER, LIMITED           –           –         TORONTO [unnumbered page] Copyright, Canada, 1925 By Dr. George T. Bailey, Walkerville, Ont. Printed in Canada [unnumbered page] […]

20th Jun 2014 Posted in: The Confederation Poets 0

[blank page] AN ADVENTURE WITH WOLVES. HUNTING ADVENTURES IN UTOPIA, AND OTHER POEMS. —BY A— PARRY SOUND SETTLER’S SON WRITTEN IN HIS 14th AND 15th YEAR.  RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED TO JOHN DUNCAN, ESQ., Markham, Yonge St., near Richmond Hill. 1880 : Printed by Morton & Co., 3 and 5 Adelaide Street East, [unnumbered page] PREFACE.    […]

20th Jun 2014 Posted in: Edwardian and Georgian Canadian Poets 0

[3 blank pages] [illustration] THE CALL OF THE MOTHERLAND. (See page 42). [unnumbered page]  POEMS FROM THE PRESS PATRIOTIC, DESCRIPTIVE SENTIMENTAL AND HUMOROUS BY HENRY A. ASHMEAD TORONTO POST OFFICE “I’d rather sing some simple lay And have the world know what it means Than sing in such bewildering way As those who write for […]

20th Jun 2014 Posted in: The Confederation Poets 0

[blank page] RAISE THE FLAG and other Patriotic CANADIAN SONGS AND POEMS  [illustration] “Raise the Flag! Our Glorious Banner! Raise this fair Canadian Land.” ROSE PUBLISHING CO. [unnumbered page] [blank page] RAISE THE FLAG AND OTHER PATRIOTIC CANADIAN SONGS AND POEMS. “Shall we break the plight of youth    And pledge us to an alien […]

19th Jun 2014 Posted in: Edwardian and Georgian Canadian Poets 0

[3 blank pages] RAMBLINGS IN RHYMELAND WAR POEMS SONGS AND OTHER VERSE ♦ Sentimental Humorous Philosophical (ILLUSTRATED) By EBENEZER BAIN MONTREAL [unnumbered page] Copyright, Canada, 1918 by Ebenezer Bain [unnumbered page] DEDICATED TO MY RELATIVES AND  FRIENDS AND ALL LOVERS OF TRUTH, NATURE, BEAUTY, HARMONY AND HUMANITY [unnumbered page] ACKNOWLEDGEMENT I beg to tender my […]

14th Jun 2014 Posted in: The Confederation Poets 0

HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES IN RHYME BY ROBERT C. ADAMS AUTHOR OF “THE HISTORY OF ENGLAND IN RHYME,” “ON BOARD THE ‘ROCKET,’” ETC. BOSTON D. LOTHROP AND COMPANY FRANKLIN STREET [unnumbered page] This History of the United States ‘Tis not pretended higher rates Than Bancroft, Barnes or Lossing ! But to the student pressed […]

13th Jun 2014 Posted in: The Confederation Poets 0

Leisure Moments: A FEW POEMS “STELLA.” Montreal: PRINTED BY DANIEL HOSE AND ST. JAMES STREET 1871. [unnumbered page] [blank page]  LEISURE MOMENTS:  A FEW POEMS, —BY— “STELLA.” [handwritten: pseud S. C. Bagg] A DREAM. ONE afternoon, when wearied With the dull routine of life, My spirit rose in fancy Above this world of strife. I […]

13th Jun 2014 Posted in: Edwardian and Georgian Canadian Poets 0

Dream Tapestries Louise Morey Bowman  [4 blank pages]  Dream Tapestries [unnumbered page] [blank page]  Dream Tapestries by Louise Morey Bowman Author of “Moonlight and Common Day” “Reason has moons, but moons not hers Lie mirrored in her sea, Counfounding her stronomers But, oh! delighting me.” (Ralph Hodgson)  Copyright, Canada, 1924 By The Macmillan Company of […]

8th Jun 2014 Posted in: Edwardian and Georgian Canadian Poets 0

[5 blank pages] [illustration: Burnham Beeches Forest, 27th April, 1908.] [unnumbered page] A FOREST IDYLL AND OTHER POEMS BY WM. KING BAKER LONDON GASPEREAU, CUMBERLAND PARK, ACTON, W. [unnumbered page] CONTENTS PAGE A Forest Idyll 3 Dora L. W. 40 Kathleen 49 The Eyrie 58 To G. W. 67 To Dr. D. W. W. W. […]