February. 1900.
AUTHORS AND SELECTIONS
| PAGE | |
| The Whitethroat (T. H. R.) | [1] |
| A | |
| Margaret H. Alden— | |
| Mother's World | [2] |
| Joseph Antisell Allen— | |
| From "Daydreams" | [ 2] |
| Grant Allen— | |
| Only an Insect | [3] |
| William Talbot Allison— | |
| "There sat the Women weeping for Thammuz" | [6] |
| The Men of the North | [8] |
| Vanishings | [8] |
| Sophie M. Almon-Hensley— | |
| Content | [9] |
| Song | [10] |
| There is no God | [11] |
| Duncan Anderson— | |
| The Death of Wolfe | [11] |
| Sport | [17] |
| Alice M. Ardagh— | |
| Sic Passim | [20] |
| Isidore G. Ascher— | |
| By the Firelight | [22] |
| B | |
| Samuel Mathewson Baylis— | |
| In Matabele Land | [23] |
| The Coureur-de-Bois | [25] |
| John Wilson Bengough— | |
| Sir John A. Macdonald | [26] |
| Restitution | [27] |
| Craven Langstroth Betts— | |
| In Memoriam | [28] |
| Chaucer | [30] |
| Pope | [30] |
| Blanche Bishop— | |
| The Bride o' the Sun | [31] |
| Winter Flowers | [31] |
| Christmas Morn | [32] |
| Edward Blackadder— | |
| Annapolis Royal | [33] |
| Jean Blewett— | |
| The Two Marys | [33] |
| She just keeps house for me | [35] |
| At Quebec | [36] |
| John Breakenridge— | |
| The Troubadour | [36] |
| John Henry Brown— | |
| The Parliament of Man | [38] |
| A Sunset | [40] |
| Edward Burrough Brownlow— | |
| The Whippoorwill | [40] |
| The Sonnet | [41] |
| C | |
| George Frederick Cameron— | |
| The Golden Text | [41] |
| Is there a God? | [43] |
| On Tiptoe | [43] |
| What matters it? | [43] |
| Bliss Carman— | |
| Low Tide on Grand Pré | [45] |
| The Gravedigger | [46] |
| The Crimson House | [48] |
| Hack and Hew | [49] |
| Phillips Brooks | [51] |
| The White Gull | [52] |
| Amos Henry Chandler— | |
| When Dora died | [59] |
| Edward J. Chapman— | |
| A Summer Night | [60] |
| Annie Rothwell Christie— | |
| The Woman's Part | [63] |
| After the Battle | [64] |
| Welcome Home | [66] |
| George Herbert Clarke— | |
| Skater and Wolves | [67] |
| To a Butterfly | [68] |
| Resentment | [69] |
| Ecclesiastes | [69] |
| A Child's Evening Hymn | [69] |
| Hugh Cochran— | |
| Ideal | [70] |
| Hereward K. Cockin— | |
| The Death of Burnaby | [70] |
| Sara Jeanette Duncan Cotes— | |
| The Poet | [72] |
| Isabella Valancy Crawford— | |
| The Master-Builder | [73] |
| The Axe of the Pioneer | [73] |
| From "The Helot" | [74] |
| The Sword | [76] |
| "These Three" | [77] |
| Francis Blake Crofton— | |
| The Battle-Call of Anti-Christ | [78] |
| John Allister Currie— | |
| My Mother | [81] |
| Margaret Gill Currie— | |
| By the St John | [81] |
| Sarah Anne Curzon— | |
| Visit of the Prince of Wales to Laura Secord | [83] |
| Invocation to Rain | [85] |
| D | |
| Nicholas Flood Davin— | |
| From "Eos" | [87] |
| A. B. De Mille— | |
| The Ice King | [89] |
| Ballad | [91] |
| James De Mille— | |
| From "Behind the Veil" | [92] |
| Edward Hartley Dewart— | |
| Shadows on the Curtain | [96] |
| On the Ottawa | [97] |
| Frederick Augustus Dixon— | |
| A Feather's Message | [98] |
| Hinc Illæ Lachrymæ | [99] |
| William Henry Drummond— | |
| The Habitant's Jubilee Ode | [101] |
| John Hunter Duvar— | |
| John A'Var's Last Lay | [104] |
| The Minnesingers Lied | [106] |
| How Balthazar the King went down into Egypt | [107] |
| E | |
| Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton— | |
| The Egyptian Lotus | [109] |
| Purple Asters | [110] |
| Deepening the Channel | [111] |
| The Phantom Light of the Baie des Chaleurs | [112] |
| The Meadow Lands | [113] |
| My Purest Longings spring | [114] |
| I watch the Ships | [114] |
| James David Edgar— | |
| This Canada of Ours | [116] |
| F | |
| Constance Fairbanks— | |
| The Junction | [117] |
| Halifax | [117] |
| Those far-off fields | [118] |
| Joseph Kearney Foran— | |
| The Aurora Borealis | [118] |
| William Henry Fuller— | |
| A Song of the Sea | [120] |
| G | |
| Alexander Rae Garvie— | |
| From "Phantasy" | [121] |
| H | |
| Pierce Stevens Hamilton— | |
| From "The Heroine of St John" | [123] |
| S. Frances Harrison— | |
| Villanelle | [126] |
| Chateau Papineau | [127] |
| September | [128] |
| November | [128] |
| Theodore Arnold Haultain— | |
| Beauty | [129] |
| Charles Heavysege— | |
| Magnanimous and Mean | [131] |
| Night | [132] |
| The Coming of the Morn | [132] |
| The Mystery of Doom | [133] |
| John Frederic Herbin— | |
| Simon | [133] |
| The Diver | [137] |
| Across the Dykes | [137] |
| The Sonnet | [138] |
| Annie Campbell Huestis— | |
| Gentle-Breath | [138] |
| The Little White Sun | [139] |
| Twenty-Old and Seven-Wild | [140] |
| James C. Hodgins— | |
| Once More | [145] |
| A Greek Reverie | [146] |
| Joseph Howe— | |
| The Flag of Old England | [147] |
| The Deserted Nest | [148] |
| William Edward Hunt— | |
| Golden-Rod | [141] |
| The Sea's Influence | [142] |
| The Passing of Summer | [142] |
| Richard Huntington— | |
| Sunrise on the Tusket | [142] |
| Louisburg | [144] |
| J | |
| Charles Edwin Jakeway— | |
| An Unfinished Prophecy | [149] |
| E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahiońwake)— | |
| The Song my Paddle sings | [155] |
| At Husking Time | [156] |
| Shadow River | [157] |
| Brier | [158] |
| Prairie Greyhounds | [159] |
| K | |
| Robert Kirkland Kernighan— | |
| The Song of the Thaw | [160] |
| Peepy is not dead | [161] |
| William Kirby— | |
| The Marquis of Lorne's visit to the North-West | [162] |
| At Spencer Grange | [163] |
| From "The Sparrows" | [163] |
| Matthew Richey Knight— | |
| Jacques Cartier | [166] |
| Sovereign Moments | [167] |
| The Mercy of God | [167] |
| L | |
| Archibald Lampman— | |
| The Railway Station | [168] |
| Outlook | [168] |
| Among the Millet | [169] |
| The Loons | [169] |
| The Sun Cup | [170] |
| After Rain | [170] |
| June | [172] |
| September | [174] |
| The Goal of Life | [177] |
| Mary Jane Katzmann Lawson— | |
| The Face in the Cathedral | [177] |
| Sophia V. Gilbert Lee— | |
| The Brook | [180] |
| Lily Alice Lefevre— | |
| Imprisoned | [180] |
| Inspiration | [181] |
| R. E. Mullins Leprohon— | |
| The Huron Chief's Daughter | [182] |
| William Douw Lighthall— | |
| The Artist's Prayer | [184] |
| The Sweet Star | [186] |
| My Native Land | [186] |
| Stuart Livingston— | |
| The Volunteers of '85 | [187] |
| To E. N. L. | [188] |
| The King's Fool | [189] |
| Keats | [192] |
| Arthur John Lockhart— | |
| Acadie | [192] |
| The Waters of Carr | [193] |
| The Lonely Pine | [194] |
| Burton Wellesley Lockhart— | |
| From "The Retrospect" | [196] |
| Love and Song | [197] |
| By the Gaspereau | [197] |
| John E. Logan— | |
| The Indian Maid's Lament | [198] |
| M | |
| Agnes Maule Machar— | |
| William Ewart Gladstone | [199] |
| Schiller's Dying Vision | [200] |
| Love and Faith | [202] |
| A Madonna of the Entry | [202] |
| Evan MacColl— | |
| The Child of Promise | [204] |
| Glenorchy | [205] |
| Elizabeth Roberts Macdonald— | |
| A Song of Seasons | [205] |
| John Macfarlane— | |
| The Two Angels | [206] |
| A Grave in Samoa | [207] |
| A Midsummer Madrigal | [208] |
| Kate Seymour Maclean— | |
| Ballad of the Mad Ladye | [208] |
| Bird Song | [210] |
| Elizabeth S. Macleod— | |
| Alexander Mackenzie | [211] |
| A. D. Macneill— | |
| The Sea-Gull | [212] |
| Donald M'Caig— | |
| The Tramp | [213] |
| James M'Carroll— | |
| A Royal Race | [215] |
| Dawn | [216] |
| The Grey Linnet | [216] |
| William M'Donnell— | |
| From "Manita" | [217] |
| Bernard M'Evoy— | |
| A Photograph in a Shop Window | [218] |
| Revised Proofs | [218] |
| Thomas D'Arcy M'Gee— | |
| Our Ladye of the Snow | [219] |
| William P. M'Kenzie— | |
| Moonlight | [224] |
| Gabrielle | [224] |
| The Mother's Song | [225] |
| Lullaby Song | [226] |
| Alexander M'Lachlan— | |
| Indian Summer | [227] |
| Bobolink | [229] |
| The Man who rose from Nothing | [230] |
| John M'Pherson— | |
| The Mayflower | [231] |
| In the Woods | [232] |
| Charles Mair— | |
| Untamed | [233] |
| The Voice of the Pines | [234] |
| The Humming Bird | [236] |
| Innocence | [236] |
| George Martin— | |
| Shelley | [238] |
| To My Canary Bird | [238] |
| Laleet | [240] |
| Helen M. Merrill— | |
| The Blue Flower | [241] |
| At Edgewater | [243] |
| The Promise of Spring | [243] |
| Sun-Gold | [244] |
| Susanna Moodie— | |
| The Maple Tree | [244] |
| The Fisherman's Light | [247] |
| Mary Morgan— | |
| "In apprehension, so like a God" | [247] |
| Charity | [248] |
| Life | [248] |
| Irene Elder Morton— | |
| Browning | [249] |
| Completeness | [250] |
| My Garden Wall | [251] |
| In June | [252] |
| Song of the Pagan Princess | [254] |
| Song | [254] |
| Charles Pelham Mulvaney— | |
| Poppœa | [255] |
| George Murray— | |
| The Thistle | [256] |
| N | |
| H. M. Nickerson— | |
| A Recollection | [260] |
| O | |
| Cornelius O'Brien— | |
| St Cecilia | [261] |
| Thomas O'Hagan— | |
| Ripened Fruit | [261] |
| The Song My Mother Sings | [262] |
| P | |
| Horatio Gilbert Parker— | |
| I loved my Art | [264] |
| It is enough | [264] |
| Their Waving Hands | [265] |
| Amy Parkinson— | |
| The Messenger Hours | [265] |
| Frank L. Pollock— | |
| Ad Bellonam | [268] |
| The Trail of Gold | [269] |
| R | |
| Andrew Ramsay— | |
| Jephtha's Daughter | [270] |
| I will not tell | [271] |
| Atkinson's Mill | [272] |
| Theodore Harding Rand— | |
| The Dragonfly | [273] |
| Beauty | [276] |
| Love | [277] |
| The Hepatica | [277] |
| "I Am" | [278] |
| The Veiled Presence | [279] |
| The Ghost Flower | [280] |
| Glory-Roses | [280] |
| The Carven Shores | [281] |
| Walter A. Ratcliffe— | |
| Wanted | [282] |
| John Reade— | |
| Rizpah | [283] |
| Pictures of Memory (i.-iv.) | [285] |
| In My Heart | [286] |
| To Louis Fréchette | [288] |
| Kings of Men | [288] |
| Dominion Day | [289] |
| Robert Reid— | |
| Poesie | [290] |
| A Song of Canada | [290] |
| Charles George Douglas Roberts— | |
| A Nocturne of Consecration | [292] |
| A Nocturne of Spiritual Love | [295] |
| An Ode for the Canadian Confederacy | [296] |
| Canadian Streams | [297] |
| The Silver Thaw | [299] |
| Epitaph for a Sailor Buried Ashore | [300] |
| The Train among the Hills | [301] |
| A Song of Growth | [301] |
| Sleepy Man | [302] |
| Night in a down-town Street | [303] |
| The Falling Leaves | [304] |
| An Epitaph for a Husbandman | [304] |
| Origins | [305] |
| The Wrestler | [306] |
| Recessional | [307] |
| Ascription | [309] |
| Theodore Roberts— | |
| The Spears of Kan-Mar | [309] |
| Cold | [310] |
| The Men of my Heart's Desire | [311] |
| The Chase | [312] |
| William Carman Roberts— | |
| History | [313] |
| An Easter Memory | [313] |
| My Comrade Canoe | [314] |
| George John Romanes— | |
| I ask not for Thy love, O Lord | [315] |
| Carroll Ryan— | |
| From "Malta" | [316] |
| S | |
| Charles Sangster— | |
| England and America | [318] |
| A Living Temple | [320] |
| The Illumined Goal | [321] |
| Love's Renewal | [321] |
| 'Tis Summer Still | [322] |
| Duncan Campbell Scott— | |
| The Fifteenth of April | [322] |
| Above St Irénée | [323] |
| Off Rivière Du Loup | [325] |
| The End of the Day | [326] |
| A Flock of Sheep | [326] |
| Memory | [327] |
| Home Song | [328] |
| Life and Death | [329] |
| Ottawa | [329] |
| Frederick George Scott— | |
| A Reverie | [330] |
| Easter Island | [331] |
| A Dream of the Prehistoric | [332] |
| Dawn | [335] |
| Van Elsen | [335] |
| Charles Dawson Shanly— | |
| The Walker of the Snow | [336] |
| Francis Sherman— | |
| The Builder | [338] |
| Between the Battles | [339] |
| From "The Prelude" | [340] |
| A Little While before the Fall was done | [341] |
| Goldwin Smith— | |
| Flossy to her Mistress | [341] |
| Lyman C. Smith— | |
| Canada to Columbia | [342] |
| From "A Day with Homer" | [343] |
| William Wye Smith— | |
| The Canadians on the Nile | [344] |
| Albert E. Stafford Smythe— | |
| The Forgotten Poet | [345] |
| Death the Revealer | [346] |
| Hiram Ladd Spencer— | |
| The River | [346] |
| A Hundred Years to come | [347] |
| Ezra Hurlburt Stafford— | |
| Chinook | [348] |
| The Strange Vessel | [349] |
| The last Orison | [350] |
| Alexander Charles Stewart— | |
| From "The Wanderer" | [351] |
| Phillips Stewart— | |
| Hope | [351] |
| From "Corydon and Amaryllis" | [352] |
| From "De Profundis" | [353] |
| Barry Straton— | |
| Love's Harvest | [353] |
| Charity | [354] |
| America | [356] |
| Arthur J. Stringer— | |
| A Song in Autumn | [356] |
| Beside the Martyr's Memorial | [357] |
| Canada to England | [357] |
| Beethoven | [358] |
| Alan Sullivan— | |
| Venice | [359] |
| The White Canoe | [360] |
| T | |
| Bertram Tennyson— | |
| Gordon | [361] |
| Edward William Thomson— | |
| A Day-Dream | [363] |
| The Song-Sparrow | [364] |
| The Bad Year | [364] |
| John Stuart Thomson— | |
| The Vale of Estabelle | [365] |
| Even-Time | [367] |
| Late Autumn | [368] |
| W | |
| Francis L. Dominick Waters— | |
| From "The Water Lily" | [369] |
| Arthur Weir— | |
| A Snowshoe Song | [370] |
| Voyageur Song | [372] |
| The Little Trooper | [373] |
| Little Miss Blue Eyes | [374] |
| A Christmas Lullaby | [375] |
| Agnes Ethelwyn Wetherald— | |
| The House of the Trees | [376] |
| At the Window | [377] |
| To February | [377] |
| The Hay Field | [378] |
| William Henry Withrow— | |
| October | [379] |
| Cloud Castles | [379] |
| R. Walter Wright— | |
| Easter Morn | [380] |
| A Still Small Voice | [381] |
| G. F. W.— | |
| Sense and Spirit | [382] |
| Y | |
| Eva Rose York— | |
| I shall not pass this way again | [382] |
| Pamelia Vining Yule— | |
| The Beautiful Artist | [384] |
| Warble thy lays to me | [386] |
| Notes of Authors | [387] |
| Index of First Lines | [405] |
A TREASURY
OF CANADIAN VERSE