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28th Jun 2016 Posted in: Modernist Canadian Poets 0

OF THIS EDITION OF ARGOSIES AT DAWN, BY AUDREY DEAN HUGHES, ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY COPIES HAVE BEEN PRINTED. THIS CHAP-BOOK IS A PRODUCT OF THE RYERSON PRESS, TORONTO, CANADA. The Ryerson Press 1931 Toronto. [unnumbered page] This small collection of poems, Argosies at Dawn, by Aubrey Dean Hughes, is offered by the author as […]

28th Jun 2016 Posted in: Modernist Canadian Poets, Uncategorized 0

OF THIS EDITION OF SONGS OF THE WEST AND OTHER POEMS, BY MARION E. MOODIE, TWO HUNDRED AND FIFTY COPIES HAVE BEEN PRINTED. THIS CHAP-BOOK IS A PRODUCT OF THE RYERSON PRESS TORONTO, CANADA. The Ryerson Press Toronto 1934 Born in the city of Quebec, of Scottish-English descent, Miss Marion E. Moodie went west to […]

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, […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

20th Nov 2013 Posted in: Edwardian and Georgian Canadian Poets 0

[10 illustrations] John F. McDonnell.    Hon. Joseph Howe. Mrs. J. C. Yule.     Alma Frances McCollum.     Mrs. Susanna Moodie. Grant Allen.     Charles Dawson Shanly.     Eric McKay Yeoman. [unnumbered page] A WREATH OF CANADIAN SONG CONTAINING BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES AND NUMEROUS SELECTIONS FROM DECEASED CANADIAN POETS By MRS. C. M. WHYTE-EDGAR TORONTO WILLIAM BRIGGS 1910 [unnumbered page] Copyright, […]