Charles G. D. Roberts's Poetry, by first line

• The Cow Pasture

  I see the harsh, wind-ridden, eastward hill,
  By the red ca

  14 lines
• The Salt Flats

  Here clove the keels of centuries ago
  Where now unvisited

  14 lines
• In an Old Barn

  Tons upon tons the brown-green fragrant hay
  O'erbrims the mows&

  14 lines, 1 comment
• The Herring Weir

  Back to the green deeps of the outer bay
  The red and&

  14 lines
• The Frosted Pane

  One night came Winter noiselessly, and leaned
  Against my window

  8 lines
• The Skater

  My glad feet shod with the glittering steel
  I was the god of

  37 lines
• O Earth, Sufficing All our Needs

  O earth, sufficing all our needs, O you
  With room for 

  22 lines
• Monition

  A faint wind, blowing from World's End,
  Made strange the c

  12 lines
• Bat, Bat, Come Under my Hat

  (A Modernity)
  Twelve good friends

  27 lines
• The Great and Little Weavers

  The great and the little weavers,
  They neither rest nor sleep.

  57 lines
• The Solitary Woodsman

  When the grey lake-water rushes
  Past the dripping alder-bushes,

  62 lines
• Canada

  O Child of Nations, giant-limbed,
  Who stand'st among the nations 

  67 lines, 1 comment
• An Epitaph for a Husbandman

  He who would start and rise
  Before the crowing cocks, --

  32 lines
• Philander's Song

  (from "The Sprightly Pilgrim")
  I sat and read Anacreon.

  9 lines
• The Iceberg

  I was spawned from the glacier,
  A thousand miles due north

  291 lines
• The Potato Harvest

  A high bare field, brown from the plough, and borne
  Aslant

  14 lines
• The Departing of Gluskâp

  It is so long ago; and men well-nigh
  Forget what gladness was,&nb

  43 lines
• Ave! (An Ode for the Shelley Centenary, 1892)

  I
  O tranquil meadows, grassy Tantramar,

  341 lines
• The Clearing

  Stumps, and harsh rocks, and prostrate trunks all charred,
  And gnarled roots naked to the sun and rain,--

  14 lines
• Canadian Streams

  O rivers rolling to the sea
  From lands that bear the maple-tree,

  44 lines
• The Autumn Thistles

  The morning sky is white with mist, the earth
  White with the inspiration of the dew.

  14 lines
• Twilight on Sixth Avenue at Ninth Street

  Over the tops of the houses
  Twilight and sunset meet.

  20 lines
• Cambrai and Marne

  Before our trenches at Cambrai
  We saw their columns cringe away.

  44 lines
• Wayfarer of Earth

  Up, heart of mine,
  Thou wayfarer of Earth!

  34 lines
• At the Gates of Spring

  With April here,
  And first thin green on the awakening bough,

  13 lines
• All Night the Lone Cicada

  All night the lone cicada
  Kept shrilling through the rain–

  16 lines
• Hilltop Song

  When the lights come out in the cottages
  Along the shores at eve,

  16 lines
• An April Adoration

  Sang the sun rise on an amber morn -
  "Earth, be glad! An April day is born.

  16 lines
• The Hawkbit

  How sweetly on the autumn scene,
  When haws are red amid the green,

  16 lines
• Afoot

  Comes the lure of green things growing,
  Comes the call of waters flowing -

  28 lines

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