Poems

An October Evening The woods are haggard and lonely, The skies are hooded for snow, The moon is cold in Heaven, And the grasses are sere […]

Bereavement of the Fields Soft fall the February snows, and soft Falls on my heart the snow of wintry pain; For never more, by wood or […]

Canadian Folksong The doors are shut, the windows fast; Outside the gust is driving past, Outside the shivering ivy clings, While on the hob the kettle […]

How One Winter Came in the Lake Region For weeks and weeks the autumn world stood still, Clothed in the shadow of a smoky haze; The […]

In My Study, Out over my study, All ashen and ruddy, Sinks the December sun; And high up over The chimney’s soot cove, The winter night […]

Langemarck at Ypres This is the ballad of Langemarck, A story of glory and might; Of the vast Hun horde, and Canada’s part In the great […]

On Christmas Eve In byre and barn the mows are brim with sheaves, Where stealeth in with phosphorescent tread The glimmering moon, and, ’neath his wattled […]

Out of Pompeii She lay, face downward, on her beaded arm, In this her new, sweet dream of human bliss, Her heart within her fearful, fluttering, […]

Pan the Fallen He wandered into the market With pipes and goatish hoof; He wandered in a grotesque shape, And no one stood aloof. For the […]

Snow Down out of heaven, Frost-kissed And wind driven, Flake upon flake, Over forest and lake, Cometh the snow. Folding the forest, Folding the farms, In […]