Poems

Storm Out of the gray northwest, where many a day gone by Ye tugged and howled in your tempestuous grot, And evermore the huge frost giants […]

Temagami Far in the grim Northwest beyond the lines That turn the rivers eastward to the sea, Set with a thousand islands, crowned with pines, Lies […]

The City at the End of Things Beside the pounding cataracts Of midnight streams unknown to us ‘Tis builded in the leafless tracts And valleys huge […]

The Frogs I1. Breathers of wisdom won without a quest, . Quaint uncouth dreamers, voices high and strange; . Flutists of lands where beauty hath no […]

The Growth of Love XI XI Belovèd, those who moan of love’s brief day Shall find but little grace with me, I guess, Who know too […]

The Largest Life I I lie upon my bed and hear and see. The moon is rising through the glistening trees; And momently a great and […]

The Railway Station The darkness brings no quiet here, the light No waking: ever on my blinded brain The flare of lights, the rush, and cry, […]

The Truth Friend, though thy soul should burn thee, yet be still Thoughts were not meant for strife, nor tongues for swords, He that sees clear […]

To a Millionaire The world in gloom and splendour passes by, And thou in the midst of it with brows that gleam, A creature of that […]

To the Ottawa Dear dark-brown waters full of all the stain Of sombre spruce-woods and the forest fens, Laden with sound from far-off northern glens Where […]