Poems

Winter’s Beauty Is it not fine to walk in spring, When leaves are born, and hear birds sing? And when they lose their singing powers, In […]

Young Beauty When at each door the ruffian winds Have laid a dying man to groan, And filled the air on winter nights With cries of […]

Autumn Days In dreams of the night I hear the call Of wild duck scudding across the lake, In dreams I see the old convent wall, […]

Bateese and his Little Decoys O I’m very very tire Marie, I wonder if I’m able hol’ a gun An’ me dat ‘s alway risin’ wit’ […]

Bateese the Lucky Man He’s alway ketchin’ doré, an’he ‘s alway ketchin’ trout On de place w’ere no wan else can ketch at all He ‘s […]

Child Thoughts WRITTEN TO COMMEMORATE THE ANNIVER- SARY OF MY BROTHER TOM ‘S BIRTHDAY O memory, take my hand to-day And lead me thro’ the darkened […]

De Nice Leetle Canadienne You can pass on de worl’ w’erever you lak, Tak’ de steamboat for go Angleterre, Tak’ car on de State, an’ den […]

Donal Campbell DONAL’ CAMPBELL –Donal’ Bane– sailed away across the ocean With the tartans of Clan Gordon, to the Indies’ distant shore, But on Dargai’s lonely […]

Dreams BORD á Plouffe, Bord á Plouffe, W’at do I see w’en I dream of you? A shore w’ere de water is racin’ by, A small […]

Johnnie Courteau Johnnie Courteau of de mountain Johnnie Courteau of de hill Dat was de boy can shoot de gun Dat was de boy can jomp […]