Marguerite de Roberval (Isabel Ecclestone Mackay Poems)
O THE long days and nights! The days that bringNo sunshine that my shrinking soul can bear,The nights that soothe ...
O THE long days and nights! The days that bringNo sunshine that my shrinking soul can bear,The nights that soothe ...
DAZZLED by sun and drugged by space they wait,These homeless peoples, at our prairie gate;Dumb with the awe of those ...
THE sunlight falls on old Quebec, A city framed of rose and gold,An ancient gem more beautiful In that its beauty waxes ...
DOWN at the docks--when the smoke clouds lie,Wind-ript and red, on an angry sky--Coal-dumps and derricks and piled-up bales,Tar and ...
I FEAR Eileen, the wild Eileen-- The eyes she lifts to mine,That laugh and laugh and never tell The half that they ...
I'VE heard the pipes of PanSomewhere, just beyond,--Over the edge of dawn, I think,Where the clouds hang soft on the ...
WIND-SWEPT and fire-swept and swept with bitter rain, This was the world I came to when I came across the sea--Sun-drenched ...
"TELL me, Singer, of the wayWinding down to Arcady?Of the world's roads I am weary--You, with song so brave and ...
SPRING will come to help me: she'll be back again, Back with the soft sun, the sun I knew before. She will ...
IT is the English in me that loves the soft, wet weather-- The cloud upon the mountain, the mist upon the ...
THE sweet west wind, the prairie school a break in the yellow wheat,The prairie trail that wanders by to the ...
MY soul has left its tent of clay And seeks from star to star,'Mid flaming worlds that are to be, And fruitful ...
O LITTLE brown bird in the rain, In the sweet rain of spring,How you carry the youth of the world In the ...
SHE came to me at Christmas time and made me mother, and it seemedThere was a Christ indeed and He ...
A YOUTH sat down on a wayside stone, A pack on his back and a staff at his knee.He whistled a ...
O WHETHER by the lonesome road that lies across the leaOr whether by the hill that stoops, rock-shadowed, to the ...
THE voice of my true love is low And exquisitely kind,Warm as a flower, cold as snow-- I think it is the ...
WHEN life wakened in the Spring All the world was gold and green!Sunlight lay on everything,Sailing cloud and soaring wing, Emerald banks ...
THERE'S not a leaf upon the tree To show the sap is leaping,There's not a blade and not an ear Escaped from ...
MY father lived his three-score years; my son lived twenty-two;One looked long back on work well done, and one had ...
HOW shall I know? Shall I hear Love pass In the wind that sighs through the poplar tree?Shall I follow his ...
THE top of the world and an empty morning, Mist sweeping in from the dim Outside,The door of day just a ...
SPRING awoke to-day! Somewhere--far away--Spring awoke to-day From the depth of dream.Through the air bestirred Pulse of winging bird,Through the air bestirred Laugh of ...
I THOUGHT of friendshipAs a golden ring,Round as the worldYet fitted to my finger;I thought of friendshipAs a path in ...
(For the unknown soldier buried in Westminster Abbey.)YOU who died fightingFor me and my little children;You who are a millionYet ...
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