Poems

Hilltop Song When the lights come out in the cottages Along the shores at eve, And across the darkening water The last pale colours leave; And […]

In an Old Barn Tons upon tons the brown-green fragrant hay O’erbrims the mows beyond the time-warped eaves, Up to the rafters where the spider weaves, […]

Monition A faint wind, blowing from World’s End, Made strange the city street. A strange sound mingled in the fall Of the familiar feet. Something unseen […]

O Earth, Sufficing All our Needs O earth, sufficing all our needs, O you With room for body and for spirit too, How patient while your […]

Philander’s Song (from “The Sprightly Pilgrim”) I sat and read Anacreon. Moved by the gay, delicious measure I mused that lips were made for love, And […]

Tantramar Revisited Summers and summers have come, and gone with the flight of the swallow; Sunshine and thunder have been, storm, and winter, and frost; Many […]

The Autumn Thistles The morning sky is white with mist, the earth White with the inspiration of the dew. The harvest light is on the hills […]

The Clearing Stumps, and harsh rocks, and prostrate trunks all charred, And gnarled roots naked to the sun and rain,– They seem in their grim stillness […]

The Cow Pasture I see the harsh, wind-ridden, eastward hill, By the red cattle pastured, blanched with dew; The small, mossed hillocks where the clay gets […]

The Departing of Gluskâp It is so long ago; and men well-nigh Forget what gladness was, and how the earth Gave corn in plenty, and the […]