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  • Wayfarer of Earth
    Up, heart of mine,
    Thou wayfarer of Earth!
    34 lines
  • When The Sleepy Man Comes
    When the Sleepy Man comes with the dust on his eyes,
    (Oh, weary, my Dearie, so weary!)
    24 lines
  • Grey Rocks and Greyer Sea
    GREY rocks, and greyer sea,
      And surf along the shore—
    19 lines
  • The Recessional
    NOW along the solemn heights
    Fade the Autumn’s altar-lights;
    43 lines
  • Ascription
      O thou who hast beneath Thy hand
      The dark foundations of the land,--
    23 lines
  • The Sower
    A brown sad-coloured hillside, where the soil,
    Fresh from the frequent harrow, deep and fine,
    14 lines
  • The Aim
      O thou who lovest not alone
      The swift success, the instant goal,
    18 lines
  • The Salt Flats
    Here clove the keels of centuries ago
    Where now unvisited
    14 lines
  • Cambrai and Marne
    Before our trenches at Cambrai
    We saw their columns cringe away.
    44 lines
  • The Hawkbit
    How sweetly on the autumn scene,
    When haws are red amid the green,
    16 lines
  • O Earth, Sufficing All our Needs
    O earth, sufficing all our needs, O you
    With room for 
    22 lines
  • Afoot
    Comes the lure of green things growing,
    Comes the call of waters flowing -
    28 lines
  • The Frosted Pane
    One night came Winter noiselessly, and leaned
    Against my window
    8 lines
  • The Herring Weir
    Back to the green deeps of the outer bay
    The red and&
    14 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 Great and Little Weavers
    The great and the little weavers,
    They neither rest nor sleep.
    57 lines
  • Hilltop Song
    When the lights come out in the cottages
    Along the shores at eve,
    16 lines
  • Monition
    A faint wind, blowing from World's End,
    Made strange the c
    12 lines
  • In an Old Barn
    Tons upon tons the brown-green fragrant hay
    O'erbrims the mows&
    14 lines, 1 comment
  • An Epitaph for a Husbandman
    He who would start and rise
    Before the crowing cocks, --
    32 lines
  • The Cow Pasture
    I see the harsh, wind-ridden, eastward hill,
    By the red ca
    14 lines
  • Twilight on Sixth Avenue at Ninth Street
    Over the tops of the houses
    Twilight and sunset meet.
    20 lines
  • The Departing of Gluskâp
    It is so long ago; and men well-nigh
    Forget what gladness was,&nb
    43 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
  • All Night the Lone Cicada
    All night the lone cicada
    Kept shrilling through the rain–
    16 lines
  • An April Adoration
    Sang the sun rise on an amber morn -
    "Earth, be glad! An April day is born.
    16 lines
  • Bat, Bat, Come Under my Hat
    (A Modernity)
    Twelve good friends
    27 lines
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