The Passing Of Cadieux (Isabel Ecclestone Mackay Poems)
THAT man is brave who at the nod of fateWill lay his life a willing offering down,That they who loved ...
THAT man is brave who at the nod of fateWill lay his life a willing offering down,That they who loved ...
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 ...
NEVER in all her sweet and holy youthSeemed she so beautiful! The tired linesEtch her white face with look so ...
THEY sat before a dugoutIn the unfamiliar quiet of silenced guns.And one said:"Now that it's overWhat about a bit of ...
THE sunlight falls on old Quebec, A city framed of rose and gold,An ancient gem more beautiful In that its beauty waxes ...
HER hair was gold and warm it lay Upon the pallor of her brow;Her eyes were deep, aye, deep and gray-- And ...
OF old the Winds came romping down, Oh, wild and free were they!They bent the prairie grasses low And made a place ...
"THE Spring is come!" a shepherd saith; Sing, sweet Mary,"The Spring is come to NazarethAnd swift the Summer hurrieth." Sing low, the ...
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 ...
SHE was my love and the pulse of my heart;Lovely she was as the flowers that startStraight to the sun ...
THEIR looks for me are bitter, And bitter is their word-I may not glance behind unseen, I may not sigh unheard!So fare ...
I FEAR Eileen, the wild Eileen-- The eyes she lifts to mine,That laugh and laugh and never tell The half that they ...
THE moan of Rose Dolores, she made her plaint to me,"My hair is lifted by the wind that sweeps in ...
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 ...
ONE comes with foot insistent to my door, Calling my name;Nor voice nor footstep have I heard before,Yet clear the calling ...
OH, to be in Canada now that Spring is merry, Happy apple blossoms gay against the smiling green;Here the lilac's purple ...
THE breeze blows out from the land and it seeks the sea, O and O! that my sail were set and ...
"TELL me, Singer, of the wayWinding down to Arcady?Of the world's roads I am weary--You, with song so brave and ...
THE wind blows salt from off the sea And sweet from where the land lies green;I travel down the great highway That ...
I BUILT myself a pleasant house. Content was I to dwell in it--Its door was fast against the wind With all the ...
A WALL impregnable surrounds The Town wherein I dwell;No man may scale it and it has Two gates that guard it well.One ...
SPRING will come to help me: she'll be back again, Back with the soft sun, the sun I knew before. She will ...
One saw the coming doom and was afraid,And said, "My friends, the cause for which you dareIs just and worthy, ...
THERE was a man, once, and a womanWhose love was so entireThat an angel, watching them,Said wistfully, "Would I were ...
DO you hear the bell? 'Tis a silver chimeBut it ringeth not in the bourne of time.With the wind it ...
THE ladye's bower faced the sea,Its casements framed a sea-born day.She saw the fishers sail away, And, far and high, The gulls ...
YEARS are the seedlings which we careless sow In Time's bare garden. Dead they seem to be--Dead years! We sigh and ...
IT is the English in me that loves the soft, wet weather-- The cloud upon the mountain, the mist upon the ...
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