TO
MY MOTHER

CONTENTS

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[A LITTLE SONG]
The sunset in the rosy west,[1]
[THE HILL PATH]
Are the little breezes blind,[2]
[THE VOICE AND THE DUSK]
The slender moon and one pale star,[5]
[FOR REMEMBRANCE]
It would be sweet to think when we are old,[7]
[THE MESSAGE]
Wind of the gentle summer night,[8]
[THE SILENCE OF LOVE]
My heart would need the earth,[10]
[AN IMPROMPTU]
The stars are in the ebon sky,[11]
[FROM THE FARM ON THE HILL]
The night wind moves the gloom,[13]
[AT SCARBORO’ BEACH]
The wave is over the foaming reef,[15]
[THE FIFTEENTH OF APRIL]
Pallid saffron glows the broken stubble,[17]
[IN AN OLD QUARRY]
Above the lifeless pools the mist films swim,[19]
[TO WINTER]
Come, O thou conqueror of the flying year,[20]
[TO WINTER]
Come, O thou season of intense repose,[21]
[THE IDEAL]
Let your soul grow a thing apart,[22]
[A SUMMER STORM]
Last night a storm fell on the world,[23]
[LIFE AND DEATH]
I thought of death beside the lonely sea,[25]
[IN THE COUNTRY CHURCHYARD]
This is the acre of unfathomed rest,[26]
[SONG]
I have done,[32]
[THE MAGIC HOUSE]
In her chamber, wheresoe’er,[33]
[IN THE HOUSE OF DREAMS]
The lady Lillian knelt upon the sward,[36]
[THE RIVER TOWN]
There’s a town where shadows run,[38]
[OFF THE ISLE AUX COUDRES]
The moon, Capella, and the Pleiades,[40]
[AT LES EBOULEMENTS]
The bay is set with ashy sails,[41]
[ABOVE ST. IRÉNÉE]
I rested on the breezy height,[42]
[WRITTEN IN A. LAMPMAN’S POEMS]
When April moved in maiden guise,[45]
[OFF RIVIÈRE DU LOUP]
O ship incoming from the sea,[48]
[AT THE CEDARS]
You had two girls—Baptiste—[50]
[THE END OF THE DAY]
I hear the bells at eventide,[54]
[THE REED-PLAYER]
By a dim shore where water darkening,[56]
[A FLOCK OF SHEEP]
Over the field the bright air clings and tingles,[58]
[A PORTRAIT]
All her hair is softly set,[60]
[AT THE LATTICE]
Good-night, Marie, I kiss thine eyes,[63]
[THE FIRST SNOW]
The field pools gathered into frosted lace,[64]
[IN NOVEMBER]
The ruddy sunset lies,[66]
[THE SLEEPER]
Touched with some divine repose,[68]
[A NIGHT IN JUNE]
The world is heated seven times,[70]
[MEMORY]
I see a schooner in the bay,[72]
[YOUTH AND TIME]
Move not so lightly, Time, away,[73]
[A MEMORY OF THE ‘INFERNO’]
An hour before the dawn I dreamed of you,[74]
[LA BELLE FERONIÈRE,]
I never trod where Leonardo was,[75]
[A NOVEMBER DAY]
There are no clouds above the world,[76]
[OTTAWA]
City about whose brow the north winds blow,[78]
[SONG]
Here’s the last rose,[79]
[NIGHT AND THE PINES]
Here in the pine shade is the nest of night,[80]
[A NIGHT IN MARCH]
At eve the fiery sun went forth,[82]
[SEPTEMBER]
The morns are grey with haze and faintly cold,[86]
[BY THE WILLOW SPRING]
Come hither, Care, and look on this fair place,[87]

A LITTLE SONG