The kindly strength of open fields,
The faith of eve, the calm of air,
They lift my spirit close to thee
In memory and prayer.
[CONTENTS]
| [I. THE BOOK OF THE NATIVE] | Page |
| Kinship | [11] |
| Origins | [16] |
| An April Adoration | [19] |
| An Oblation | [21] |
| Resurrection | [25] |
| Afoot | [27] |
| Where the Cattle come to Drink | [31] |
| The Heal-All | [32] |
| Recompense | [35] |
| An Epitaph for a Husbandman | [37] |
| The Little Field of Peace | [40] |
| Renewal | [43] |
| The Unsleeping | [45] |
| Recessional | [48] |
| Earth’s Complines | [52] |
| Two Spheres | [55] |
| The Stillness of the Frost | [58] |
| A Child’s Prayer at Evening | [59] |
| [II. LYRICS] | |
| The Frosted Pane | [63] |
| The Brook in February | [64] |
| Beside the Winter Sea | [65] |
| The Quest of the Arbutus | [67] |
| The Jonquil | [70] |
| The Trout Brook | [72] |
| A Wake-up Song | [75] |
| Butterflies | [77] |
| July | [78] |
| An August Wood Road | [81] |
| Apple Song | [84] |
| The Cricket | [87] |
| The Train among the Hills | [89] |
| The Lone Wharf | [90] |
| The Witches’ Flight | [92] |
| Three Good Things | [95] |
| Trysting Song | [98] |
| Love’s Translator | [100] |
| Ebb | [103] |
| Twilight on Sixth Avenue | [105] |
| Mothers | [107] |
| Up and Away in the Morning | [108] |
| Home, Home in the Evening | [110] |
| Sleepy Man | [112] |
| [III. BALLADS] | |
| The Wrestler | [117] |
| The Ballad of Crossing the Brook | [120] |
| Whitewaters | [124] |
| The Forest Fire | [136] |
| The Vengeance of Gluskâp | [142] |
| The Muse and the Wheel | [145] |
| The “Laughing Sally” | [150] |