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  • Brier: Good Friday
    Because, dear Christ, your tender, wounded arm
    Bends back the brier that edges life's long way,
    12 lines, 1 comment
  • The Pilot of the Plains
    ``False,\
    52 lines, 3 comments
  • The Song my Paddle Sings
    West wind, blow from your prairie nest,
      Blow from the mountains, blow from the west
    52 lines, 1 comment
  • Easter
    Lent gathers up her cloak of sombre shading
    In her reluctant hands.
    32 lines
  • The Wolf
    Like a grey shadow lurking in the light,
    He ventures forth along the edge of night;
    22 lines
  • Golden--Of The Selkirks
    A trail upwinds from Golden;
    It leads to a land God only knows,
    31 lines
  • Guard Of The Eastern Gate
    Halifax sits on her hills by the sea
      In the might of her pride,—
    13 lines
  • 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
  • Harvest Time
    Pillowed and hushed on the silent plain,
    Wrapped in her mantle of golden grain,
    25 lines
  • Lady lorgnette
    Lady Lorgnette, of the lifted lash,
    The curling lip and the dainty nose,
    30 lines
  • Low tide at st. andrews
    The long red flats stretch open to the sky,
    Breathing their moisture on the August air.
    19 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 mariner
    Once more adrift.
    O'er dappling sea and broad lagoon,
    26 lines
  • Lullaby of the iroquois
    Little brown baby-bird, lapped in your nest,
    Wrapped in your nest,
    20 lines, 2 comments
  • The corn husker
    Hard by the Indian lodges, where the bush
    Breaks in a clearing, through ill-fashioned fields,
    12 lines
  • Prairie greyhounds (C.P.R. No, 1, Westbound
    I swing to the sunset land--
    The world of prairie, the world of plain,
    15 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
  • And He Said, Fight On
    Time and its ally, Dark Disarmament,
        Have compassed me about,
    21 lines
  • At Crow's Nest Pass
    At Crow's Nest Pass the mountains rend
    Themselves apart, the rivers wend
    17 lines
  • Give Us Barabbas
    There was a man--a Jew of kingly blood,
    But of the people--poor and lowly born,
    40 lines, 1 comment
  • Your Mirror Frame
    Methinks I see your mirror frame,
    Ornate with photographs of them.
    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
  • Fire-Flowers
    And only where the forest fires have sped,
      Scorching relentlessly the cool north lands,
    10 lines, 1 comment
  • A Toast
    There's wine in the cup, Vancouver,
      And there's warmth in my heart for you,
    32 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 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
  • The art of alma-tadema
    There is no song his colours cannot sing,
    For all his art breathes melody, and tunes
    20 lines
  • Good-Bye
    Sounds of the seas grow fainter,
      Sounds of the sands have sped;
    10 lines, 2 comments
  • 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
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