#Canadians
The great and the little weavers, They neither rest nor sleep. They work in the height and the gl… They toil in the dark and the deep… The rainbow melts with the shower,
Stumps, and harsh rocks, and prost… And gnarled roots naked to the sun… They seem in their grim stillness… And be their paint the evening pea… These ragged acres fire and the ax…
Up, heart of mine, Thou wayfarer of Earth! Of seed divine, Be mindful of thy birth. Though the flesh faint
O Child of Nations, giant-limbed, Who stand’st among the nations now Unheeded, unadored, unhymned, With unanointed brow,— How long the ignoble sloth, how lo…
A brown sad-coloured hillside, whe… Fresh from the frequent harrow, de… Lies bare; no break in the remote… Save where a flock of pigeons stre… Startled from feed in some low-lyi…
Back to the green deeps of the out… The red and amber currents glide a… Diminishing behind a luminous frin… Of cream-white surf and wandering… Stealthily, in the old reluctant w…
One night came Winter noiselessly… Against my window-pane. In the deep stillness of his heart… The ghosts of all his slain. Leaves, and ephemera, and stars of…
Over the tops of the houses Twilight and sunset meet. The green, diaphanous dusk Sinks to the eager street. Astray in the tangle of roofs
When the lights come out in the co… Along the shores at eve, And across the darkening water The last pale colours leave; And up from the rock-ridged pastur…
I see the harsh, wind-ridden, east… By the red cattle pastured, blanch… The small, mossed hillocks where t… The grey webs woven on milkweed to… The sparse, pale grasses flicker,…
(from “The Sprightly Pilgrim”) I sat and read Anacreon. Moved by the gay, delicious measur… I mused that lips were made for lo… And love to charm a poet’s leisure…
Grey rocks, and greyer sea, And surf along the shore— And in my heart a name My lips shall speak no more. The high and lonely hills
Before our trenches at Cambrai We saw their columns cringe away. We saw their masses melt and reel Before our line of leaping steel. A handful to their storming hordes…
O earth, sufficing all our needs,… With room for body and for spirit… How patient while your children ve… Devising alien heavens beyond your… Dear dwelling of the immortal and…
Sang the sun rise on an amber morn… ‘Earth, be glad! An April day is… ’Winter’s done, and April’s in th… Earth, look up with laughter in yo… Putting off her dumb dismay of sno…