Poems

Low Tide on Grand Pré The sun goes down, and over all These barren reaches by the tide Such unelusive glories fall, I almost dream they […]

On Love TO the assembled folk At great St. Kavin’s spoke Young Brother Amiel on Christmas Eve; I give you joy, my friends, That as the […]

On the Plaza One August day I sat beside A café window open wide To let the shower-freshened air Blow in across the Plaza, where In […]

Over the Wintry Threshold Over the wintry threshold Who comes with joy today, So frail, yet so enduring, To triumph o’er dismay? Ah, quick her tears […]

Rivers of Canada O all the little rivers that run to Hudson’s Bay, They call me and call me to follow them away. Missinaibi, Abitibi, Little […]

Spring’s Saraband Over the hills of April With soft winds hand in hand, Impassionate and dreamy-eyed, Spring leads her saraband. Her garments float and gather And […]

The Eavesdropper In a still room at hush of dawn, My Love and I lay side by side And heard the roaming forest wind Stir in […]

The Heart of Night When all the stars are sown Across the night-blue space, With the immense unknown, In silence face to face. We stand in […]

The Joys of the Road The Joys of the Road NOW the joys of the road are chiefly these: A crimson touch on the hard-wood trees; […]

The Old Gray Wall Time out of mind I have stood Fronting the frost and the sun, That the dream of the world might endure, And […]