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

BOOK OF POEMS BY EUPHEMIA BELLMORE Sixth Edition. TORONTO: PRINTED BY DUDLEY & BURNS. 1874. [unnumbered page] [blank page] NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC. The writer of these Poems is a young woman who lost her sight while studying at the Normal School to fit herself for a teacher. She had previously lost her left hand […]

29th Jun 2016 Posted in: Post-Confederation 0

POEMS. By John Brooke Dedicated To My country Canada Toronto Hunter, Rose and Company. 1882. [unnumbered page] Entered according to the Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighty-two, by JOHN BROOKE, in the Office of the Minister of Agriculture. [unnumbered page] PREFACE. In the composition of the […]

28th Jun 2016 Posted in: Others, Post-Confederation, Uncategorized 0

DUANAGAN SOISGEULACH. GOSPEL SONNETS BEING TRANSLATED INTO GAELIC WITH THE ENGLISH ORIGINALS. By REV. D. B. BLAIR. 1881: S.M, MACKENZIE, BOOK AND JOB PRINTER, NEW GLASGOW, N.S. [unnumbered page] Rock of Ages. Rock of Ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in Thee; Let the water and the blood, From thy riven side which […]

28th Jun 2016 Posted in: Post-Confederation 0

“My Masters and Companions, my Books” [illustration: Rufus Hawtin Hathaway] [inside cover] [2 blank pages] OTTAWA LYRICS AND VERSES for CHILDREN The Thunder Bird [illustration] A Mark of Canadian Quality [unnumbered page] OTTAWA LYRICS AND VERSES for CHILDREN BY ARTHUR S. BOURINOT Author of Laurentian Lyrics, Poems, Pattering Feet, &c. [illustration] THE GRAPHIC PUBLISHERS, LIMITED […]

28th Jun 2016 Posted in: Post-Confederation 0

FANCIES OF BOYHOOD A Series of Poems, Original and Translated, BY EDWARD BLACKADDER. HALIFAX: NOVA SCOTIA PRINTING COMPANY. 1890. [unnumbered page] [blank page] INDEX. Page The Vision 1 A Suicide 4 Glory once a Garland Made 5 A Song of the Wind 6 Augustus’ address to his daughter Julia 7 Youth 8 On Habits 9 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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; […]