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| The Whitethroat (T. H. R.) | 1 |
| A |
| Margaret H. Alden— |
| Mother's World | 2 |
| Joseph Antisell Allen— |
| From "Daydreams" | 2 |
| Grant Allen— |
| Only an Insect | 3 |
| William Talbot Allison— |
| "There sat the Women weeping for Thammuz" | 6 |
| The Men of the North | 8 |
| Vanishings | 8 |
| Sophie M. Almon-Hensley— |
| Content | 9 |
| Song | 10 |
| There is no God | 11 |
| Duncan Anderson— |
| The Death of Wolfe | 11 |
| Sport | 17 |
| Alice M. Ardagh— |
| Sic Passim | 20 |
| Isidore G. Ascher— |
| By the Firelight | 22 |
| B |
| Samuel Mathewson Baylis— |
| In Matabele Land | 23 |
| The Coureur-de-Bois | 25 |
| John Wilson Bengough— |
| Sir John A. Macdonald | 26 |
| Restitution | 27 |
| Craven Langstroth Betts— |
| In Memoriam | 28 |
| Chaucer | 30 |
| Pope | 30 |
| Blanche Bishop— |
| The Bride o' the Sun | 31 |
| Winter Flowers | 31 |
| Christmas Morn | 32 |
| Edward Blackadder— |
| Annapolis Royal | 33 |
| Jean Blewett— |
| The Two Marys | 33 |
| She just keeps house for me | 35 |
| At Quebec | 36 |
| John Breakenridge— |
| The Troubadour | 36 |
| John Henry Brown— |
| The Parliament of Man | 38 |
| A Sunset | 40 |
| Edward Burrough Brownlow— |
| The Whippoorwill | 40 |
| The Sonnet | 41 |
| C |
| George Frederick Cameron— |
| The Golden Text | 41 |
| Is there a God? | 43 |
| On Tiptoe | 43 |
| What matters it? | 43 |
| Bliss Carman— |
| Low Tide on Grand Pré | 45 |
| The Gravedigger | 46 |
| The Crimson House | 48 |
| Hack and Hew | 49 |
| Phillips Brooks | 51 |
| The White Gull | 52 |
| Amos Henry Chandler— |
| When Dora died | 59 |
| Edward J. Chapman— |
| A Summer Night | 60 |
| Annie Rothwell Christie— |
| The Woman's Part | 63 |
| After the Battle | 64 |
| Welcome Home | 66 |
| George Herbert Clarke— |
| Skater and Wolves | 67 |
| To a Butterfly | 68 |
| Resentment | 69 |
| Ecclesiastes | 69 |
| A Child's Evening Hymn | 69 |
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| Hugh Cochran— |
| Ideal | 70 |
| Hereward K. Cockin— |
| The Death of Burnaby | 70 |
| Sara Jeanette Duncan Cotes— |
| The Poet | 72 |
| Isabella Valancy Crawford— |
| The Master-Builder | 73 |
| The Axe of the Pioneer | 73 |
| From "The Helot" | 74 |
| The Sword | 76 |
| "These Three" | 77 |
| Francis Blake Crofton— |
| The Battle-Call of Anti-Christ | 78 |
| John Allister Currie— |
| My Mother | 81 |
| Margaret Gill Currie— |
| By the St John | 81 |
| Sarah Anne Curzon— |
| Visit of the Prince of Wales to Laura Secord | 83 |
| Invocation to Rain | 85 |
| D |
| Nicholas Flood Davin— |
| From "Eos" | 87 |
| A. B. De Mille— |
| The Ice King | 89 |
| Ballad | 91 |
| James De Mille— |
| From "Behind the Veil" | 92 |
| Edward Hartley Dewart— |
| Shadows on the Curtain | 96 |
| On the Ottawa | 97 |
| Frederick Augustus Dixon— |
| A Feather's Message | 98 |
| Hinc Illæ Lachrymæ | 99 |
| William Henry Drummond— |
| The Habitant's Jubilee Ode | 101 |
| John Hunter Duvar— |
| John A'Var's Last Lay | 104 |
| The Minnesingers Lied | 106 |
| How Balthazar the King went down into Egypt | 107 |
| |
| E |
| Arthur Wentworth Hamilton Eaton— |
| The Egyptian Lotus | 109 |
| Purple Asters | 110 |
| Deepening the Channel | 111 |
| The Phantom Light of the Baie des Chaleurs | 112 |
| The Meadow Lands | 113 |
| My Purest Longings spring | 114 |
| I watch the Ships | 114 |
| James David Edgar— |
| This Canada of Ours | 116 |
| F |
| Constance Fairbanks— |
| The Junction | 117 |
| Halifax | 117 |
| Those far-off fields | 118 |
| Joseph Kearney Foran— |
| The Aurora Borealis | 118 |
| William Henry Fuller— |
| A Song of the Sea | 120 |
| G |
| Alexander Rae Garvie— |
| From "Phantasy" | 121 |
| H |
| Pierce Stevens Hamilton— |
| From "The Heroine of St John" | 123 |
| S. Frances Harrison— |
| Villanelle | 126 |
| Chateau Papineau | 127 |
| September | 128 |
| November | 128 |
| Theodore Arnold Haultain— |
| Beauty | 129 |
| Charles Heavysege— |
| Magnanimous and Mean | 131 |
| Night | 132 |
| The Coming of the Morn | 132 |
| The Mystery of Doom | 133 |
| John Frederic Herbin— |
| Simon | 133 |
| The Diver | 137 |
| Across the Dykes | 137 |
| The Sonnet | 138 |
| Annie Campbell Huestis— |
| Gentle-Breath | 138 |
| The Little White Sun | 139 |
| Twenty-Old and Seven-Wild | 140 |
| James C. Hodgins— |
| Once More | 145 |
| A Greek Reverie | 146 |
| Joseph Howe— |
| The Flag of Old England | 147 |
| The Deserted Nest | 148 |
| William Edward Hunt— |
| Golden-Rod | 141 |
| The Sea's Influence | 142 |
| The Passing of Summer | 142 |
| Richard Huntington— |
| Sunrise on the Tusket | 142 |
| Louisburg | 144 |
| J |
| Charles Edwin Jakeway— |
| An Unfinished Prophecy | 149 |
| E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahiońwake)— |
| The Song my Paddle sings | 155 |
| At Husking Time | 156 |
| Shadow River | 157 |
| Brier | 158 |
| Prairie Greyhounds | 159 |
| K |
| Robert Kirkland Kernighan— |
| The Song of the Thaw | 160 |
| Peepy is not dead | 161 |
| William Kirby— |
| The Marquis of Lorne's visit to the North-West | 162 |
| At Spencer Grange | 163 |
| From "The Sparrows" | 163 |
| Matthew Richey Knight— |
| Jacques Cartier | 166 |
| Sovereign Moments | 167 |
| The Mercy of God | 167 |
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| L |
| Archibald Lampman— |
| The Railway Station | 168 |
| Outlook | 168 |
| Among the Millet | 169 |
| The Loons | 169 |
| The Sun Cup | 170 |
| After Rain | 170 |
| June | 172 |
| September | 174 |
| The Goal of Life | 177 |
| Mary Jane Katzmann Lawson— |
| The Face in the Cathedral | 177 |
| Sophia V. Gilbert Lee— |
| The Brook | 180 |
| Lily Alice Lefevre— |
| Imprisoned | 180 |
| Inspiration | 181 |
| R. E. Mullins Leprohon— |
| The Huron Chief's Daughter | 182 |
| William Douw Lighthall— |
| The Artist's Prayer | 184 |
| The Sweet Star | 186 |
| My Native Land | 186 |
| Stuart Livingston— |
| The Volunteers of '85 | 187 |
| To E. N. L. | 188 |
| The King's Fool | 189 |
| Keats | 192 |
| Arthur John Lockhart— |
| Acadie | 192 |
| The Waters of Carr | 193 |
| The Lonely Pine | 194 |
| Burton Wellesley Lockhart— |
| From "The Retrospect" | 196 |
| Love and Song | 197 |
| By the Gaspereau | 197 |
| John E. Logan— |
| The Indian Maid's Lament | 198 |
| M |
| Agnes Maule Machar— |
| William Ewart Gladstone | 199 |
| Schiller's Dying Vision | 200 |
| Love and Faith | 202 |
| A Madonna of the Entry | 202 |
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| Evan MacColl— |
| The Child of Promise | 204 |
| Glenorchy | 205 |
| Elizabeth Roberts Macdonald— |
| A Song of Seasons | 205 |
| John Macfarlane— |
| The Two Angels | 206 |
| A Grave in Samoa | 207 |
| A Midsummer Madrigal | 208 |
| Kate Seymour Maclean— |
| Ballad of the Mad Ladye | 208 |
| Bird Song | 210 |
| Elizabeth S. Macleod— |
| Alexander Mackenzie | 211 |
| A. D. Macneill— |
| The Sea-Gull | 212 |
| Donald M'Caig— |
| The Tramp | 213 |
| James M'Carroll— |
| A Royal Race | 215 |
| Dawn | 216 |
| The Grey Linnet | 216 |
| William M'Donnell— |
| From "Manita" | 217 |
| Bernard M'Evoy— |
| A Photograph in a Shop Window | 218 |
| Revised Proofs | 218 |
| Thomas D'Arcy M'Gee— |
| Our Ladye of the Snow | 219 |
| William P. M'Kenzie— |
| Moonlight | 224 |
| Gabrielle | 224 |
| The Mother's Song | 225 |
| Lullaby Song | 226 |
| Alexander M'Lachlan— |
| Indian Summer | 227 |
| Bobolink | 229 |
| The Man who rose from Nothing | 230 |
| John M'Pherson— |
| The Mayflower | 231 |
| In the Woods | 232 |
| Charles Mair— |
| Untamed | 233 |
| The Voice of the Pines | 234 |
| The Humming Bird | 236 |
| Innocence | 236 |
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| George Martin— |
| Shelley | 238 |
| To My Canary Bird | 238 |
| Laleet | 240 |
| Helen M. Merrill— |
| The Blue Flower | 241 |
| At Edgewater | 243 |
| The Promise of Spring | 243 |
| Sun-Gold | 244 |
| Susanna Moodie— |
| The Maple Tree | 244 |
| The Fisherman's Light | 247 |
| Mary Morgan— |
| "In apprehension, so like a God" | 247 |
| Charity | 248 |
| Life | 248 |
| Irene Elder Morton— |
| Browning | 249 |
| Completeness | 250 |
| My Garden Wall | 251 |
| In June | 252 |
| Song of the Pagan Princess | 254 |
| Song | 254 |
| Charles Pelham Mulvaney— |
| Poppœa | 255 |
| George Murray— |
| The Thistle | 256 |
| N |
| H. M. Nickerson— |
| A Recollection | 260 |
| O |
| Cornelius O'Brien— |
| St Cecilia | 261 |
| Thomas O'Hagan— |
| Ripened Fruit | 261 |
| The Song My Mother Sings | 262 |
| P |
| Horatio Gilbert Parker— |
| I loved my Art | 264 |
| It is enough | 264 |
| Their Waving Hands | 265 |
| |
| Amy Parkinson— |
| The Messenger Hours | 265 |
| Frank L. Pollock— |
| Ad Bellonam | 268 |
| The Trail of Gold | 269 |
| R |
| Andrew Ramsay— |
| Jephtha's Daughter | 270 |
| I will not tell | 271 |
| Atkinson's Mill | 272 |
| Theodore Harding Rand— |
| The Dragonfly | 273 |
| Beauty | 276 |
| Love | 277 |
| The Hepatica | 277 |
| "I Am" | 278 |
| The Veiled Presence | 279 |
| The Ghost Flower | 280 |
| Glory-Roses | 280 |
| The Carven Shores | 281 |
| Walter A. Ratcliffe— |
| Wanted | 282 |
| John Reade— |
| Rizpah | 283 |
| Pictures of Memory (i.-iv.) | 285 |
| In My Heart | 286 |
| To Louis Fréchette | 288 |
| Kings of Men | 288 |
| Dominion Day | 289 |
| Robert Reid— |
| Poesie | 290 |
| A Song of Canada | 290 |
| Charles George Douglas Roberts— |
| A Nocturne of Consecration | 292 |
| A Nocturne of Spiritual Love | 295 |
| An Ode for the Canadian Confederacy | 296 |
| Canadian Streams | 297 |
| The Silver Thaw | 299 |
| Epitaph for a Sailor Buried Ashore | 300 |
| The Train among the Hills | 301 |
| A Song of Growth | 301 |
| Sleepy Man | 302 |
| Night in a down-town Street | 303 |
| The Falling Leaves | 304 |
| An Epitaph for a Husbandman | 304 |
| Origins | 305 |
| The Wrestler | 306 |
| Recessional | 307 |
| Ascription | 309 |
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| Theodore Roberts— |
| The Spears of Kan-Mar | 309 |
| Cold | 310 |
| The Men of my Heart's Desire | 311 |
| The Chase | 312 |
| William Carman Roberts— |
| History | 313 |
| An Easter Memory | 313 |
| My Comrade Canoe | 314 |
| George John Romanes— |
| I ask not for Thy love, O Lord | 315 |
| Carroll Ryan— |
| From "Malta" | 316 |
| S |
| Charles Sangster— |
| England and America | 318 |
| A Living Temple | 320 |
| The Illumined Goal | 321 |
| Love's Renewal | 321 |
| 'Tis Summer Still | 322 |
| Duncan Campbell Scott— |
| The Fifteenth of April | 322 |
| Above St Irénée | 323 |
| Off Rivière Du Loup | 325 |
| The End of the Day | 326 |
| A Flock of Sheep | 326 |
| Memory | 327 |
| Home Song | 328 |
| Life and Death | 329 |
| Ottawa | 329 |
| Frederick George Scott— |
| A Reverie | 330 |
| Easter Island | 331 |
| A Dream of the Prehistoric | 332 |
| Dawn | 335 |
| Van Elsen | 335 |
| Charles Dawson Shanly— |
| The Walker of the Snow | 336 |
| Francis Sherman— |
| The Builder | 338 |
| Between the Battles | 339 |
| From "The Prelude" | 340 |
| A Little While before the Fall was done | 341 |
| Goldwin Smith— |
| Flossy to her Mistress | 341 |
| |
| Lyman C. Smith— |
| Canada to Columbia | 342 |
| From "A Day with Homer" | 343 |
| William Wye Smith— |
| The Canadians on the Nile | 344 |
| Albert E. Stafford Smythe— |
| The Forgotten Poet | 345 |
| Death the Revealer | 346 |
| Hiram Ladd Spencer— |
| The River | 346 |
| A Hundred Years to come | 347 |
| Ezra Hurlburt Stafford— |
| Chinook | 348 |
| The Strange Vessel | 349 |
| The last Orison | 350 |
| Alexander Charles Stewart— |
| From "The Wanderer" | 351 |
| Phillips Stewart— |
| Hope | 351 |
| From "Corydon and Amaryllis" | 352 |
| From "De Profundis" | 353 |
| Barry Straton— |
| Love's Harvest | 353 |
| Charity | 354 |
| America | 356 |
| Arthur J. Stringer— |
| A Song in Autumn | 356 |
| Beside the Martyr's Memorial | 357 |
| Canada to England | 357 |
| Beethoven | 358 |
| Alan Sullivan— |
| Venice | 359 |
| The White Canoe | 360 |
| T |
| Bertram Tennyson— |
| Gordon | 361 |
| Edward William Thomson— |
| A Day-Dream | 363 |
| The Song-Sparrow | 364 |
| The Bad Year | 364 |
| John Stuart Thomson— |
| The Vale of Estabelle | 365 |
| Even-Time | 367 |
| Late Autumn | 368 |
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| W |
| Francis L. Dominick Waters— |
| From "The Water Lily" | 369 |
| Arthur Weir— |
| A Snowshoe Song | 370 |
| Voyageur Song | 372 |
| The Little Trooper | 373 |
| Little Miss Blue Eyes | 374 |
| A Christmas Lullaby | 375 |
| Agnes Ethelwyn Wetherald— |
| The House of the Trees | 376 |
| At the Window | 377 |
| To February | 377 |
| The Hay Field | 378 |
| William Henry Withrow— |
| October | 379 |
| Cloud Castles | 379 |
| R. Walter Wright— |
| Easter Morn | 380 |
| A Still Small Voice | 381 |
| G. F. W.— |
| Sense and Spirit | 382 |
| Y |
| Eva Rose York— |
| I shall not pass this way again | 382 |
| Pamelia Vining Yule— |
| The Beautiful Artist | 384 |
| Warble thy lays to me | 386 |
| Notes of Authors | 387 |
| Index of First Lines | 405 |
