| Poems of Patriotism. | |
|---|---|
| Our Country and Our Flag, | [9] |
| The Flag of Hobson’s Choice, | [16] |
| The Old Soldier, | [21] |
| Washington, | [26] |
| A Voice for Freedom, | [29] |
| The Reconcentrados, | [31] |
| The Celebration, | [40] |
| Ode to Ontario, | [42] |
| The United States and Canada, | [44] |
| Ode to Our Country, | [45] |
| Poems of Sentiment. | |
| The Milk of Human Kindness, | [49] |
| The Working Girl, | [52] |
| The Wayward Girl, | [56] |
| The Rose Cure, | [59] |
| To a Snow Drop, | [61] |
| A Family Song, | [63] |
| Thanksgiving Day, | [64] |
| Parental Advice, | [65] |
| The Doctor, | [67] |
| Brotherly Love, | [69] |
| The Minister’s Wife, | [70] |
| Nothing to Say, | [73] |
| The Heart, | [74] |
| My Darling Flora’s Margaret, | [75] |
| The Rich Sweet Sound of the Human Voice, | [78] |
| The Man for the Times, | [82] |
| Poems of Feeling. | |
| To My Soul, | [87] |
| Dear Rolla, | [89] |
| To the Memory of a Good Woman, | [90] |
| On the Death of Mrs. Maggie Blood, | [91] |
| To the Memory of Mrs. Fidelia Whitaker, | [93] |
| Braver the Sick, | [95] |
| Do not Die Tonight, | [96] |
| On the Death of Mary McElroy, | [98] |
| Address to Death, | [100] |
| To the Memory of Mrs. Hon. Justin R. Whiting, | [106] |
| Captain Archie Morrison, | [109] |
| Poems of Description. | |
| Where the Wind Blows, | [113] |
| Ode to Lake Superior, | [117] |
| The Dundas Valley, | [118] |
| The St. Clair River, | [119] |
| Miscellaneous Poems. | |
| Compensation, | [139] |
| Expansion, | [146] |
| Fear Not, Lorain, | [148] |
| The Teacher, | [150] |
| A Gem, | [153] |
| The China Wedding, | [154] |
| The Honest Man’s Fate, | [155] |
| Time and Tide, | [156] |
| Christmas Day, | [157] |
| Progressive Euchre, | [158] |
| The Winner, | [162] |
| A Walk by Moonlight, | [163] |
| The Painter, | [165] |
| A Doctor’s Advice, | [166] |
| Here I Am, | [168] |
| A Christmas Turkey, | [169] |
| To Mrs. Harriet S. DeLano and Her Baby, | [170] |
| For the Baby, | [171] |
| Lines on My Father, | [171] |
| Advice to a Young Poet, | [172] |
| An Acrostic, | [173] |
| Charley’s Puppy, | [174] |
| Merry Christmas, | [175] |
| Temperance, | [175] |
| The Folding Puzzle, | [176] |
| In Florence’s Album, | [176] |
| In Lizzie Leonard’s Album, | [177] |
| In Henrietta’s Album, | [177] |
| In Worthy’s Album, | [178] |
| In Flora’s Album, | [178] |
| In Etta’s Album, | [179] |
| In Grace’s Album, | [179] |
| The Gallop of Life, | [180] |
| Where Are All the People We Knew, | [184] |
| The Honest Man, | [187] |
| Beautiful Things, | [189] |
| The Nurse, | [192] |
| A Sweet Disposition, | [195] |
| The Scow Race, | [197] |
| A Happy Choice, | [201] |
| Beautiful Flowers, | [203] |
| The Value of a Friend, | [204] |
PART I.
POEMS OF PATRIOTISM
OUR COUNTRY AND OUR FLAG.
At morning light October twelfth,
In fourteen hundred ninety-two,
With shouts of joy and dreams of wealth,
Columbus and his happy crew,
Sang land ahoy! Sweet land ahoy!
And landing on the virgin soil,
Gave thanks to God, in tears of joy,
And laughed at danger, care and toil.
And thus became our country known
A short four hundred years ago,
And yet in greatness it has grown
Beyond the reach of man to know;
The forests vast have given way
Before man’s mighty march and hand,
And prairie wastes like night to day
Have changed to blooming garden land.
The savage hosts that here were found
Living like roving beasts of prey,
Have given up their hunting ground,
And thrown their poisoned darts away;
Now turning to the arts of peace,
And living on the white man’s plan,
Their wasted numbers will increase,
While they respect the rights of man.
The howling wolf and dreaded bear,
The buffalo and antelope,
And all the beasts not in man’s care,
Are going down the western slope;
Whate’er obstructs the onward tread,
Of the overwhelming march of man,
Must soon be numbered with the dead,
All sacrificed on nature’s plan.