Book: Canadian Born

• Canadian born

  We first saw light in Canada, the land beloved of God;
  We are the pulse of Canada, its marrow and its blood:

  20 lines
• Where Leaps The Ste. Marie

  What dream you in the night-time
  When you whisper to the moon?

  18 lines
• Brandon

  Born on the breast of the prairie, she smiles to her sire--the sun,
  Robed in the wealth of her wheat-lands, gift of her mothering soil,

  7 lines
• Harvest Time

  Pillowed and hushed on the silent plain,
  Wrapped in her mantle of golden grain,

  25 lines
• The homing bee

  You are belted with gold, little brother of mine,
  Yellow gold, like the sun

  16 lines
• Lady lorgnette

  Lady Lorgnette, of the lifted lash,
  The curling lip and the dainty nose,

  30 lines
• The maple

  I
  It is the blood-hued maple straight and strong,

  6 lines
• Low tide at st. andrews

  The long red flats stretch open to the sky,
  Breathing their moisture on the August air.

  19 lines
• The man in chrysanthemum land

  There's a brave little berry-brown man
  At the opposite side of the earth;

  43 lines
• Beyond The Blue

  Speak of you, sir? You bet he did. Ben Fields was far too sound
  To go back on a fellow just because he weren't around.

  65 lines
• The overture

  October's orchestra plays softly on
  The northern forest with its thousand strings,

  4 lines
• The mariner

  Once more adrift.
  O'er dappling sea and broad lagoon,

  26 lines
• Finale

  The cedar trees have sung their vesper hymn,
  And now the music sleeps--

  12 lines, 3 comments
• Lullaby of the iroquois

  Little brown baby-bird, lapped in your nest,
  Wrapped in your nest,

  20 lines, 2 comments
• When George Was King

  Cards, and swords, and a lady's love,
  That is a tale worth reading,

  35 lines
• The corn husker

  Hard by the Indian lodges, where the bush
  Breaks in a clearing, through ill-fashioned fields,

  12 lines
• Good-Bye

  Sounds of the seas grow fainter,
    Sounds of the sands have sped;

  10 lines, 2 comments
• Prairie greyhounds (C.P.R. No, 1, Westbound

  I swing to the sunset land--
  The world of prairie, the world of plain,

  15 lines
• The cattle country

  Up the dusk-enfolded prairie,
  Foot-falls, soft and sly,

  24 lines
• Prairie greyhounds (C.P.R. NO. 2, Eastbound)

  I swing to the land of morn;
  The grey old east with its grey old seas,

  15 lines
• Mosses

  The lost wind wandering, forever grieves
  Low overhead,

  6 lines
• Golden--Of The Selkirks

  A trail upwinds from Golden;
  It leads to a land God only knows,

  31 lines
• The giant oak

  And then the sound of marching armies 'woke
  Amid the branches of the soldier oak,

  6 lines
• The songster

  Music, music with throb and swing,
  Of a plaintive note, and long;

  20 lines
• Canada

  (ACROSTIC)
  Crown of her, young Vancouver; crest of her, old Quebec;

  7 lines
• Thistle-down

  Beyond a ridge of pine with russet tips
  The west lifts to the sun her longing lips,

  18 lines
• The train dogs

  Out of the night and the north;
  Savage of breed and of bone,

  20 lines
• The riders of the plains

  Who is it lacks the knowledge? Who are the curs that dare
  To whine and sneer that they do not fear the whelps in the Lion's lair?

  40 lines
• The archers

  I
  Stripped to the waist, his copper-coloured skin

  34 lines
• Silhouette

  The sky-line melts from russet into blue,
  Unbroken the horizon, saving where

  20 lines
• The ballad of yaada (a legend of the pacific coast)

  There are fires on Lulu Island, and the sky is opalescent
  With the pearl and purple tinting from the smouldering of peat.

  26 lines
• A Prodigal

  My heart forgot its God for love of you,
    And you forgot me, other loves to learn;

  8 lines, 4 comments
• In Grey Days

  Measures of oil for others,
    Oil and red wine,

  28 lines, 1 comment
• Through Time and Bitter Distance

  Unknown to you, I walk the cheerless shore.
  The cutting blast, the hurl of biting brine

  28 lines
• The indian corn planter

  He needs must leave the trapping and the chase,
  For mating game his arrows ne'er despoil,

  16 lines
• At Half-Mast

  You didn't know Billy, did you? Well, Bill was one of the boys,
  The greatest fellow you ever seen to racket an' raise a noise,—

  37 lines
• Autumn's Orchestra

  (INSCRIBED TO ONE BEYOND SEAS)
  Know by the thread of music woven through

  5 lines, 1 comment
• The sleeping giant (thunder bay, lake superior)

  When did you sink to your dreamless sleep
  Out there in your thunder bed?

  20 lines
• The firs

  There is a lonely minor chord that sings
  Faintly and far along the forest ways,

  6 lines
• The quill worker

  Plains, plains, and the prairie land which the sunlight floods and fills,
  To the north the open country, southward the Cyprus Hills;

  24 lines
• The vine

  The wild grape mantling the trail and tree,
  Festoons in graceful veils its drapery,

  4 lines
• Guard Of The Eastern Gate

  Halifax sits on her hills by the sea
    In the might of her pride,—

  13 lines
• Hare-Bell

  Elfin bell in azure dress,
  Chiming all day long,

  7 lines
• At Crow's Nest Pass

  At Crow's Nest Pass the mountains rend
  Themselves apart, the rivers wend

  17 lines
• Aspens

  A sweet high treble threads its silvery song,
  Voice of the restless aspen, fine and thin

  4 lines, 1 comment
• Give Us Barabbas

  There was a man--a Jew of kingly blood,
  But of the people--poor and lowly born,

  40 lines, 1 comment
• The trail to lillooet

  Sob of fall, and song of forest, come you here on haunting quest,
  Calling through the seas and silence, from God's country of the west.

  16 lines
• Your Mirror Frame

  Methinks I see your mirror frame,
  Ornate with photographs of them.

  24 lines
• The lifting of the mist

  All the long day the vapours played
  At blindfold in the city streets,

  24 lines
• The city and the sea

  To none the city bends a servile knee;
  Purse-proud and scornful, on her heights she stands,

  18 lines
• The lost lagoon

  It is dusk on the Lost Lagoon,
  And we two dreaming the dusk away,

  15 lines
• Fire-Flowers

  And only where the forest fires have sped,
    Scorching relentlessly the cool north lands,

  10 lines, 1 comment
• The king's consort

  I
  Love, was it yesternoon, or years agone,

  27 lines
• A Toast

  There's wine in the cup, Vancouver,
    And there's warmth in my heart for you,

  32 lines
• Day Dawn

  All yesterday the thought of you was resting in my soul,
  And when sleep wandered o'er the world that very thought she stole

  33 lines
• Lady icicle

  Little Lady Icicle is dreaming in the north-land
  And gleaming in the north-land, her pillow all a-glow;

  25 lines
• The Wolf

  Like a grey shadow lurking in the light,
  He ventures forth along the edge of night;

  22 lines
• The legend of qu'appelle valley

  I am the one who loved her as my life,
  Had watched her grow to sweet young womanhood;

  90 lines
• Calgary Of The plains

  Not of the seething cities with their swarming human hives,
  Their fetid airs, their reeking streets, their dwarfed and poisoned lives

  18 lines, 4 comments
• The art of alma-tadema

  There is no song his colours cannot sing,
  For all his art breathes melody, and tunes

  20 lines
• And He Said, Fight On

  Time and its ally, Dark Disarmament,
      Have compassed me about,

  21 lines

• By me, right now

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