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Fleurs De Lys, and Other Poems
Arthur Weir
From the high-walled fortress of Quebec to the lonely pine couches of wilderness hunters, this 1887 collection captures the rugged, romantic spirit of early Canada through vivid historical ballads and intimate personal verse.
Quaint Gleanings from Ancient Poetry: A Collection of Curious Poetical Compositions of the XVIth, XVIIth, and XVIIIth Centuries
Edmund Goldsmid
This collection offers a rare glimpse into the literary scrapbooks of the past, preserving ephemeral verses that would otherwise have vanished into the dust of private archives and forgotten auction lots. It serves as a bridge to a bygone era of English expression, where political grievances, romantic longings, and…
Shapes and Shadows
Madison Julius Cawein
The world is a tapestry of shifting light, where the boundaries between reality and the spirit realm dissolve into a haunting, lyrical meditation on beauty, loss, and the eternal ache of the human heart.
The Ballad of the Quest
Virna Sheard
This collection of verse captures the profound disorientation of the First World War, charting a soul’s journey from a desire for solitary escape to the harrowing, redemptive discovery of human connection amidst the trenches.
Against This Age
Maxwell Bodenheim
A collection of sharp-edged, restless verses and prose sketches that dissect the artifice of American life, this volume remains a bracing encounter with a mind at war with its own surroundings. It serves as an artifact of early twentieth-century modernism, capturing the tension between the grit of urban existence…
Shells
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
HOOK This collection captures the earnest, fragile landscape of the American 19th-century soul, where life, loss, and the promise of the afterlife are set to rhythm and rhyme.
The Ascent of Man
Mathilde Blind
This ambitious work of poetry traces the epic trajectory of human progress, moving from the primal struggle for survival toward a vision of collective enlightenment and the refinement of the soul.
The Masque of the Elements
Herman George Scheffauer
Desolation gives way to rebirth when cosmic entities speak across the empty wastes of time and space.
Ioläus: The man that was a ghost
James Allan Mackereth
The soul is a lonely voyager on a vast, shifting sea of existence, seeking a home that is always just beyond the horizon. This collection of verse explores the ache of human isolation and the persistent, haunting beauty of a world that promises everything yet remains forever out of reach.
New York Nocturnes, and Other Poems
Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir
A collection of lyrical meditations that contrast the relentless, mechanical roar of the Victorian city with the quiet, persistent pull of nature and memory.
Poems of life
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
This collection of verse captures the restless, yearning spirit of a soul caught between the heights of youthful idealism and the sober weight of life’s inevitable sorrows. It is a work of candid introspection, written with a rhythmic vitality that seeks to translate the complexities of human emotion into clear,…
Songs of Angus and More Songs of Angus
Violet Jacob
The hills of Angus hold their secrets in a language that remembers what the modern world has forgotten, offering a bridge between the quiet endurance of home and the distant, aching spaces of the soul.
An Indian Ass
Harold Acton
This collection of poetry captures the restless, fragmented spirit of a young mind in the 1920s, weaving together classical tragedy, sharp social satire, and a deeply felt, often biting, sense of modern alienation.
Poems of Life
Katharine Forrest Hamill
The quiet ache of unspoken longings and the resilience of a spirit navigating emotional turbulence define these verses. They capture the intimate, often solitary labor of preserving one's inner life amidst the constraints of early twentieth-century expectations.
Sorrow of War: Poems
Louis Golding
The trenches of the Great War and the slums of London collide in these verses, where the fragility of a skylark’s song is measured against the crushing weight of industrial slaughter. This collection captures the dissonance of a world tearing itself apart, seeking solace in the ghost of a vanished youth.
The inalienable heritage, and other poems
Emily Lawless
A collection of late-life verses captures the rugged, melancholy beauty of Ireland, blending a deep intimacy with the natural landscape against the backdrop of history’s enduring, heavy shadows.
Memorial Day, and Other Verse (Original and Translated)
Helen Leah Reed
This collection of verse captures the shifting moods of a society caught between the Victorian past and the anxieties of the early twentieth century. It offers a window into a world of patriotic duty, domestic whimsy, and classical refinement.
The Hoofs of Pegasus
Letitia Stockett
A collection of verses that finds the sacred in the mundane, these poems capture the tension between a quiet, domestic life and a spirit that longs to roam with the wilder forces of the earth.
A "booklet of verse"
Rozelle V. Myers-Funnell
This collection of verse captures the quiet intensity of late 19th-century Canadian life, balancing the weight of duty against the persistence of the human spirit. It serves as a gentle, rhythmic meditation on faith, memory, and the unspoken burdens of the heart.
Acanthus and Wild Grape
Frank Oliver Call
A collection of verse bridging the old world’s classicism and the emerging sensibilities of the twentieth century, this volume explores the intersection of nature, memory, and the search for beauty. It stands as a testament to the enduring power of lyrical observation in a changing, often turbulent, world.
Canada, My Land
William M. (William Mackay) MacKeracher
This collection of verse serves as a passionate, lyrical portrait of a young nation finding its identity at the dawn of the twentieth century. It bridges the gap between rugged frontier spirit and the sophisticated pride of a burgeoning dominion.
Jonah: Christmas 1917
Aldous Huxley
A weary soul navigates the shifting currents of a world fractured by conflict, seeking truth among the ruins of idealism and the visceral realities of the body.
Lays from the West
M. A. Nicholl
The past is a phantom, but the spirit finds light in the transition between the fading glory of youth and the promise of a final, eternal rest.
Oxford poetry, 1917
Unknown
This collection serves as a poignant, preserved window into the voices of a generation standing at the precipice of a changing world, capturing the restless intellect and quiet longing of young scholars. It is a diverse anthology of verse that echoes with the intellectual rigor and emotional uncertainty of Oxford…
The Lament of the Mormon Wife: A Poem
Marietta Holley
This narrative poem explores the quiet, devastating erosion of a marriage under the pressure of polygamy, tracing a woman’s journey from a cherished wife to a forgotten, solitary figure residing in her own home.
Nets to Catch the Wind
Elinor Wylie
The world is a harsh, cold place where only the solitary and the resilient survive, yet beauty remains a fierce, haunting necessity that must be pursued at any cost.
Poems
Walter Richard Cassels
A restless, searching spirit defines these verses, where the boundaries between the physical world and the afterlife prove as thin as a veil. Through lyrical observation and mythic retelling, a solitary voice maps the geography of grief and the persistent hope of transcendence.
Poetic Sketches: A Collection of Miscellaneous Poetry
Thomas Gent
This collection of early nineteenth-century verse traverses the fragile boundaries between public duty and private sorrow, finding beauty in the fleeting moments of a world caught in the throes of political and personal upheaval.
Bonnie Joann, and other poems
Violet Jacob
These poems capture the haunting, rhythmic essence of life in the Scottish county of Angus, where the wind, the sea, and the weight of history press against every quiet hearth. They offer a rare, intimate look at a landscape where the ancient and the modern collide in the dialect of the fields.
Poems
Carr, John, Sir
This collection captures the fleeting moods of a gentleman traveler in the early nineteenth century, blending light social observation with sincere, often melancholy, reflections on love, art, and the volatility of European politics.
Poems
Jennie Earngey Hill
The world is a tapestry of small, transient wonders, and this collection serves as a gentle lens through which to view the natural rhythms of life, love, and faith.
Silver linings
Ruth Collie
The world is a tapestry of small, bright threads, and this collection serves as a quiet guide to finding the vibrant patterns hidden within the seemingly humdrum fabric of daily life.
The Cup of Comus: Fact and Fancy
Madison Julius Cawein
This collection of verse wanders through the haunted landscapes of memory, exploring the thin veil between the joys of existence and the inevitable shadows of mortality.
The Five Books of Youth
Robert Hillyer
The transition from the lush, fragile blooms of youth to the stark, inevitable chill of winter marks the passage of every soul. This collection of verse captures the fleeting brilliance of that journey, holding the light of the past against the encroaching dark.
The Martyrs' Idyl, and Shorter Poems
Louise Imogen Guiney
A Roman soldier and a young Christian martyr find their destinies braided together in a brief, luminous arc of sacrifice. This collection captures the tension between the pull of the eternal and the constraints of the earth.
Fires of Driftwood
Isabel Ecclestone Mackay
A meditation on the persistence of memory and the transience of human endeavor, this collection of verse turns the debris of life into a light that illuminates the bridge between the everyday and the infinite.
Willow Pollen
Jeannette Augustus Marks
The grief of a daughter mourning her mother breathes through these pages, transforming the natural world into a vast, elegiac landscape of memory. This collection of verse captures the ache of loss and the quiet persistence of love.
Poems
D. M. (Duncan M.) Matheson
Amidst the pastoral peace of Acadian shores and the brutal trenches of the Great War, a rustic poet records the enduring resilience of the human spirit.
The little grey lamb, and other Christmas poems
Herbert H. (Herbert Henry) Gowen
A modest collection of Christmas verse traces humanity's longing for peace and redemption through ancient legends, wartime Jerusalem, and the humble stable of Bethlehem.
Wings of silver
Evelyn Gage Browne
Wings of silver carry the soul past earthly grief into an eternal realm of divine love and boundless flight.
Robert Louis Stevenson, an Elegy
Richard Le Gallienne
Far from his northern home, a master dreamer sleeps beneath strange southern stars, leaving a grieving world to ponder the enduring magic of art and memory.
Saddle room songs and hunting ballads
Frederick C. Palmer
The crisp morning air carries the baying of hounds and the thundering of hooves across open pastures, where every fence and field tests the mettle of horse and rider alike.
Some Verses
Helen Hay Whitney
A quiet, melancholy journey through time, love, and loss, this collection of lyrical verse explores the fragile intersection of human desire and the relentless march of the natural world.
Songs of the unblind Cupid
J. Wm. (John William) Lloyd
Love is a leaping fire and a wild vine, a fountain of youth and a crying violin, tracing every shade of human devotion from the deep ache of the heart to the freedom of the open sky.
Hymns from the Morningland: Being Translations, Centos and Suggestions from the Service Books of the Holy Eastern Church
John Brownlie
A collection of lyrical devotions, these verses bring the ancient, resonant beauty of Eastern Christian liturgy into the quiet, measured cadence of Western hymnody.
Love or Fame
Fannie Isabelle Sherrick
Caught between the quiet devotion of her youth and the dazzling, lonely pull of public renown, a gifted young artist discovers that the crown of worldly success carries a heavy, heartbreaking price.
Poems
Edward Shanks
Grief and desire clash beneath a darkening sky, where the quiet intimacy of pastoral love gives way to the harsh, marching rhythm of wartime separation.
Spectra: A Book of Poetic Experiments
Arthur Davison Ficke
A defiant, experimental collection that mocks the earnestness of early twentieth-century modernism, this book captures the playful, often biting spirit of a famous literary prank.