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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: CANADA Matches Found: 106 UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` "COME, YE LADS WHO WISH TO SHINE", by ANONYMOUS Poem Text Last Line: "danger face, maintain your ground / and see your country righted" Subject(s): Canada;war Of 1812; Canadians A CANADIAN BOAT SONG; WRITTEN ON THE RIVER ST. LAWRENCE, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Recitation Poet's Biography First Line: Faintly as tolls the evening chime Last Line: The rapids are near, and the daylight's past! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Boats; Canada; St. Lawrence River; Canadians A SPEED OF HISTORY, by MARGARET AVISON Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: One brilliantly cold alberta day Subject(s): New Year; Time; Canada; Canadians A TOAST, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: There's wine in the cup, vancouver Last Line: Vancouver, here's a ho! Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Praise; Vancouver, Canada AN OLD TORONTO BOY, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Take care, old man!' 'I thank you, sir' Last Line: Of an old toronto boy. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Childhood Memories; Home; Toronto, Canada AT STE. THERESE, by SUSAN FRANCES HARRISON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The quaint stiff metres of olden france? Last Line: Over the lombardy poplar trees. Alternate Author Name(s): Seranus; Frances, Susan Subject(s): Canada; Churches; France; Canadians; Cathedrals AT THE CEDARS, by DUNCAN CAMPBELL SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You had two girls, baptiste Last Line: Is not known to me. Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, D. C. Subject(s): Canada; Heroism; Tragedy; Canadians; Heroes; Heroines AT THE TOURIST CENTER IN BOSTON, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is my country under glass Subject(s): Canada; Canadians AT THE TOURIST CENTER IN BOSTON, by MARGARET ATWOOD Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: There is my country under glass Last Line: Was the sky ever that blue? %who really lives there Subject(s): Canada AWAKENING, by F. C. OLDRIDGE Poem Text First Line: A nation yawns and stretches Last Line: Gleams upon the brow of canada! Subject(s): Canada; Growth; Canadians BIFTEK AUX CHAMPIGNONS, by HENRY AUGUSTIN BEERS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mimi, do you remember Last Line: That blue september day. Subject(s): Fundy, Bay Of; New Brunswick, Canada BILL REID AT THE ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM 1948, by TONY COSIER Poem Source First Line: A tall pole towers in the stairwell Last Line: A wolf of the raven side Subject(s): Canada; Museums BYNG INLET, ONTARIO, by MARC HARSHMAN Poem Source First Line: Sun-whitened rocks Last Line: North of understanding Subject(s): Canada; Nature CALGARY OF THE PLAINS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Not of the seething cities with their swarming human hives Last Line: The cloudless sapphire heaven of her territorial skies. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Beauty; Calgary, Canada CALGARY STATION, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dazzled by sun and drugged by space Last Line: While a new nation clamors at our gate! Subject(s): Calgary, Canada; Homeless; Poverty; Travel; Journeys; Trips CALL OF THE CARILLON, by ANNIE CHARLOTTE DALTON Poem Source First Line: Hark! Hark! How ring the bells Subject(s): Canada CANADA, by ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Where canada spreads forth her deserts hoar Last Line: And bound in wampum leagues bids savage discord cease. Alternate Author Name(s): Aikin, Anna Letitia Subject(s): Canada; Canadians CANADA, by BILLY COLLINS Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I am writing this on a strip of white birch bark Subject(s): Canada; Canadians CANADA, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Crown of her, young vancouver; crest of her, old quebec Last Line: Appraised at highest value, cargoes of grain and gold. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Canada; Geography; Canadians CANADA, by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: O child of nations, giant-limbed Last Line: Bursts the uprising sun! Subject(s): Canada; Freedom; Patriotism; Canadians; Liberty CANADA, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Dear native land! Thy wand'ring child Last Line: The banner of the free! Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Canada; Freedom; National Songs; Canadians; Liberty; National Anthems CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES, by AMOS RUSSEL WELLS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Let politicians talk their fill Last Line: That nations can as brothers love. Subject(s): Canada; United States; Canadians; America CANADA NOT LAST, by WILLIAM DOUW LIGHTHALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lo venice, gay with color, lights and song Last Line: Tive land. Alternate Author Name(s): Schuyler-lighthall, William Douw Subject(s): Canada; Italy; Patriotism; Canadians; Italians CANADA OUR HOME, by CARROLL RYAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The skies are fair that beam above Last Line: Of canada our home. Alternate Author Name(s): Ryan, William Thomas Carroll Subject(s): Canada; Home; Canadians CANADA TO ENGLAND, by MARJORIE LOWRY CHRISTIE PICKTHALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Great names of thy great captains gobe before Last Line: Of all past greatnesses about thee stand. Subject(s): England; Freedom; World War I - Canada; English; Liberty CANADA TO THE LAUREATE; IN RESPONSE TO TENNYSON'S LINES, by AGNES MAULE MACHAR Poem Source First Line: And that true north, whereof we lately heard Last Line: Whose lustre is thy children's -- is our own! Subject(s): Canada; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Patriotism; Tennyson, Alfred (1809-1892) CANADA: CASE HISTORY: 1945, by EARL (EARLE) BIRNEY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the case of a high-school land Subject(s): Canada; Youth; Modern Life; Canadians CANADIAN BORN, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: We first saw light in canada the land beloved of god Last Line: That they were born in canada beneath the british flag. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Canada; Nations; Pride; Canadians; Self-esteem; Self-respect CANADIAN FOLK SONG, by WILLIAM WILFRED CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The doors are shut, the windows fast Last Line: Singeth the kettle merrily. Alternate Author Name(s): Campbell, W. W. Variant Title(s): Margery Maketh The Tea Subject(s): Family Life; Canada CANADIAN HUNTER'S SONG, by SUSANNA STRICKLAND MOODIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The northern lights are flashing Last Line: And bid him welcome home! Alternate Author Name(s): Strickland, Susanna Subject(s): Canada; Hunting; Canadians; Hunters CANADIAN PRAIRIES VIEW OF LITERATURE, by DAVID DONNELL Poem Source First Line: First of all it has to be anecdotal; ideas don't exist Last Line: The corn under my shirt awkward a little rough light brown dry %and makesz me itch at times Subject(s): Canada; Literature; Prairies; Writing And Writers CANADIAN SONG (1), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "dark, and the shells are falling" Last Line: Now I am vainly dreaming - / dreaming of you Subject(s): Army - Canada;world War I; First World War CANADIAN SONG (2), by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: Here we are - here we are - here we are again Last Line: We gave you 'ell at neuve chapelle - and here we are again Subject(s): Army - Canada;world War I; First World War CANADIANS, by WILLIAM HENRY OGILVIE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: With arrows on their quarters and with numbers on their hoofs Last Line: Softly fall the feet of them along the english lanes. Alternate Author Name(s): Ogilvie, Will Henry Subject(s): World War I - Canada CANADIANS AND POTTAWATOMIES, by CARL SANDBURG Poem Full Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I have seen a loneliness sit Subject(s): Loneliness; Canada; Native Americans; Canadians; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America CAPTURE OF LITTLE YORK, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "when britain, with envy and malice inflamed" Last Line: "our foes on the ocean have been forced to yield, / and fresh laurels we now gather up in the field" Subject(s): "toronto, Canada;war Of 1812 - Canadian Campaign; CHAMPLAIN: FIRST CANADIAN, by JOHN DANIEL LOGAN Poem Source First Line: Wise colonist who is in this storied place Subject(s): Canada; Champlain, Samuel De (1567-1635) CIVIL ELEGIES: 1, by DENNIS LEE Poem Source First Line: Often I sit in the sun and brooding over the city, always Last Line: They crowd in a dense baffled throng and the sun does not shine through Subject(s): Toronto, Canada COLONIAL, by JESSIE EDGAR MIDDLETON Poem Source First Line: I never saw the cliffs of snow Variant Title(s): The Canadia Subject(s): Canada COTE DE LIESSE, by DARYL HINE Poem Source First Line: My disaffected gaze falls on the city Last Line: Bells keep tinkling in the empty churches Subject(s): Montreal, Canada CUTOVER COUNTRY, by S. C. HAHN Poem Source First Line: Southwest of town, where the montreal river rushes black and cold Last Line: Of earth and darkness and death Subject(s): Cities; Montreal, Canada; Travel DE NICE LEETLE CANADIENNE, by WILLIAM HENRY DRUMMOND Poem Text First Line: You can pass on de worl' w'erever you lak Last Line: Of dat nice leetle canadienne. Subject(s): Canada; Canadians ELEGIAC SONNET: 61. SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN WRITTEN IN AMERICA, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Ill-omen'd bird! Whose cries portentous float Last Line: When, from ideal ill, the enfeebled spirit fails! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Canada; Canadians FLEURETTE (THE WOUNDED CANADIAN SPEAKS), by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: My leg? It's off at the knee Last Line: God bless her, that little fleurette! Subject(s): Girls; World War I - Canada; World War I - Casualties GOODBYE, LITTLE CABIN, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: O dear little cabin, I've loved you so long Last Line: God bless you, old cabin, good-bye! Subject(s): Canada; Home; Canadians GUARD OF THE EASTERN GATE, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Halifax sits on her hills by the sea Last Line: And her thunder but sleeps. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Arms & Armor; Halifax, Canada; Weapons; Ammunition HALIFAX, by CONSTANCE FAIRBANKS Poem Source First Line: Facing the ocean, guardian of our land Subject(s): Halifax, Canada HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA, by DERMOT BOLGER Poem Source First Line: Smooth as death %the packed ice shone Last Line: Or a frontier post for hell) %framing the solitary red word %hotel Subject(s): Halifax, Canada HEART O' THE NORTH, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: And when I come to the dim trail-end Last Line: Eternity passing over. Subject(s): Canada; Future Life; North, The; Canadians; Retribution; Eternity; After Life HOW BATEESE CAME HOME, by WILLIAM HENRY DRUMMOND Poem Text First Line: W'en I was young boy on de farm, dat's twenty year ago Last Line: "kebeck she's good enough for me -- hooraw pour canadaw." Subject(s): Canada; Homecoming; Canadians HOW CANADA WAS SAVED; MAY, 1660, by GEORGE MURRAY (1830-1910) Poem Text First Line: Beside the dark utawa's stream two hundred years / ago Last Line: So died the peerless twenty-two—so canada was saved! Subject(s): Canada - History-to 1763 (new France) IN BAY CHALEUR, by HEZEKIAH BUTTERWORTH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The birds no more in dooryard trees are singing Last Line: By bay chaleur. Subject(s): Chaleur Bay, Canada; Life IN CANADA, by ETHEL NICHOLSON Poem Text First Line: You are dead Last Line: And you are dead. Subject(s): Death; Heaven; Peace; World War I - Canada; Dead, The; Paradise INSCRIPTION FOR A MONUMENT IN THE NEW FOREST, by ROBERT SOUTHEY Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: This is the place where william's kingly power Last Line: Pray for the wicked rulers of mankind. Subject(s): Canada; Courts & Courtiers; Evil; Forests; King, William Lyon Mackenzie (1874-1950); Prayer; Canadians; Woods KNOWLEDGE, by FREDERICK GEORGE SCOTT Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: They were islanders, our fathers were Last Line: Who are brave and true. Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, F. G. Subject(s): Canada; Explorers; Canadians; Exploring; Discovery; Discoverers LANGEMARCK AT YPRES, by WILLIAM WILFRED CAMPBELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This is the ballad of langemarck Last Line: In the great, grim fight. Alternate Author Name(s): Campbell, W. W. Subject(s): World War I - Canada; Ypres, Belgium LOST AND FOUND, by CHARLES SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: In the mildest, greenest grove Last Line: In calm supernal gleams. Subject(s): Canada; Love; Nature; Youth; Canadians MONTREAL, by LYDIA AVLONITI Poem Source First Line: Here the road Last Line: For the deserter sun Subject(s): Montreal, Canada MONTREAL, by WILLIAM DOUW LIGHTHALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Reign on, majestic ville-marie! Last Line: Reign on, majestic ville marie! Alternate Author Name(s): Schuyler-lighthall, William Douw Subject(s): Montreal, Canada MY ENGLISH LETTER, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When each white moon, her lantern idly swinging Last Line: That drifts into my sun-kissed western home. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Canada; England; Canadians; English MY GARRET, by ROBERT WILLIAM SERVICE Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Here is my garret up five flights of stairs Last Line: If wealth be told in terms of happiness. Subject(s): Canada; Paris, France; Canadians MYKONOS, ALBERTA, by JULIE SCHROEDER Poem Source First Line: They surrounded rabbits with chicken wire fences and let their dogs bully them Last Line: At night the trunks shone like nudity Subject(s): Canada NIGHTS PASSED ON WARD'S ISLAND, TORONTO HARBOUR, by DOUG FETHERLING Poem Source First Line: The water like quartz, with the same kinds of strata Subject(s): Toronto, Canada NORTH LABRADOR, by HAROLD HART CRANE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: A land of leaning ice Last Line: No birth, no death, no time nor sun %in answer Alternate Author Name(s): Crane, Hart Subject(s): Newfoundland, Canada O GOD! O MONTREAL!, by SAMUEL BUTLER (1835-1902) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stowed away in a montreal lumber room Last Line: O god! O montreal Variant Title(s): A Psalm Of Montreal Subject(s): Montreal, Canada OLD CANADA; OR, GEE BUCK GEE, by ALEXANDER MCLACHLAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The country's goin' fast to ruin! Last Line: Ain't it a caution?—gee buck gee! Subject(s): Canada; Education; Farm Life; Progress; Canadians; Agriculture; Farmers OLD HABITANT, by FRANK OLIVER CALL Poem Source First Line: He sits in silence on his porch at night Subject(s): Canada OLD NICK IN SOREL, by STANDISH HAYES O'GRADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Old nick took a fancy, as many men tell Last Line: Will winter in hell and be here in the summer. Subject(s): Canada; Christmas; Santa Claus; Weather; Winter; Canadians; Nativity, The; Nicholas, Saint OLD WAR, by ARTHUR LEONARD PHELPS Poem Text First Line: I see you sitting in the sungleams there Last Line: Old war and all its honour and high pride. Subject(s): World War I - Canada OLD WHARVES, HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA, by ARTHUR WENTWORTH HAMILTON EATON Poem Source First Line: Half a century ago Subject(s): Halifax, Canada OTTAWA FACSIMILE, by GEORGE ELLIOTT CLARKE Poem Source First Line: A la maniere de pound Last Line: Why does canadian literature canonize poetry of this type? Subject(s): Canada; Poetry And Poets OUR LADS TO THE FRONT! EMBARKATION CANADIAN CONTINGENT SOUTH AFRICA, by AGNES MAULE MACHAR Poem Source First Line: Ring out the british cheer Last Line: To fight in britain's name! Subject(s): Boer War; Canada; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies PAKI GO HOME, by HIMANI BANNERJI Poem Source First Line: 3 p.M. %sunless Subject(s): Canada; Immigrants; Racism; Women PHANTOM LIGHT OF BAIE DES CHALEURS, by ARTHUR WENTWORTH HAMILTON EATON Poem Source First Line: Tis the laughter of the pines that swing and sway Subject(s): Chaleur Bay, Canada PLEASANT LIFE IN NEWFOUNDLAND, by ROBERT HAYMAN Poem Source First Line: The air in newfound-land is wholesome, good Subject(s): Newfoundland, Canada RIEL, THE REBEL, by CINCINNATUS HEINE MILLER Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: He died at dawn in the land of snows Last Line: And its thousand banners flying! Alternate Author Name(s): Miller, Joaquin Subject(s): Canada; Freedom; Riel, Louis (1844-1885); Canadians; Liberty TECUMSEH AND THE EAGLES, by BLISS CARMAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tecumseh of the shawnees Last Line: "ye will have lived in vain!" Variant Title(s): The War Cry Of The Eagles Subject(s): Freedom; World War I - Canada; Liberty THE ATHABASCA TRAIL, by ARTHUR CONAN DOYLE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: My life is gliding downwards; it speeds swifter to the day Last Line: I'll be out with pack and packer on the athabasca trail. Subject(s): Canada; Nature; Roads; Canadians; Paths; Trails THE CANADIAN AUTHORS MEET, by FRANCIS REGINALD SCOTT Poem Text First Line: Expansive puppets percolate self-unction Last Line: More ways to set the selfsame welkin ringing? Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, F. R. Subject(s): Authors And Authorship; Canada; Canadians THE CONFUSED DAWN, by WILLIAM DOUW LIGHTHALL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: What are the vision and the cry Last Line: Thine be the ear, the sight. Alternate Author Name(s): Schuyler-lighthall, William Douw Subject(s): Canada; Canadians THE DEATH OF GENERAL PIKE, by LAUGHTON OSBORN Poem Text First Line: Twas on the glorious day Last Line: And, thus pillowed, pike expired. Subject(s): Toronto, Canada; War Of 1812 - Canadian Campaign THE FLAG OF OLD ENGLAND, by JOSEPH HOWE (1804-1873) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: All hail to the day when the britons came over Last Line: Chorus—hail to the day, &c. Subject(s): Cornwallis, Charles (1738-1805); Flags - Great Britain; Halifax, Canada; Nova Scotia THE KEEPERS OF THE PASS, by CHARLES GEORGE DOUGLAS ROBERTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Now heap the branch barriers up Last Line: For we shall not return. Subject(s): Montreal, Canada THE PLAINS OF ABRAHAM, by ALEXANDER LOUIS FRASER Poem Text First Line: The cynosure of briton and of celt Last Line: This place where heroes fell shall now be free! Subject(s): Quebec, Canada THE RIDERS OF THE PLAINS, by EMILY PAULINE JOHNSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Who is it lacks the knowledge? Who are the curs that dare Last Line: And they keep the peace of our people and the honour of british law. Alternate Author Name(s): Tekahionwake Subject(s): Canada; Courage; Great Britain - Commonwealth & Colonies; Honor; North West Mounted Police (canada); Canadians; Valor; Bravery; British Empire; England - Empire THE SNOWS, by CHARLES SANGSTER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Over the snows / buoyantly goes Last Line: To sing of the raftsmen's cheer. Subject(s): Canada; Inland Waters; Rivers; Canadians THE SONG OF THE CITIES, by RUDYARD KIPLING Poem Text Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Royal and dower-royal, I the queen Last Line: To seek the happy isles! Subject(s): Auckland, New Zealand; Bombay, India; Brisbane, Australia; Calcutta, India; Cape Town, South Africa; Cities; Halifax, Canada; Hobart, Tasmania; Hong-kong; Madras, India; Melbourne, Australia; Montreal, Canada; Quebec, Canada; Rangoon, Myanmar (burma); Si THE SONG OF THE MICMAC, by JOSEPH HOWE (1804-1873) Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh! Who on the mountain, the plain, or the wave Last Line: With triumph shall smile on the spots where they fell. Subject(s): Canada; Nature; Canadians THE TRENCHES, SELS, by ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, to be in canada now that spring / is merry Last Line: Proud the life that shields you from the flaming wind of war! Subject(s): Canada; Flowers; Spring; Canadians THE VISIONS OF MACKENZIE KING, by JOHN UPDIKE Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I, william lyon mackenzie king Subject(s): Canada; King, William Lyon Mackenzie (1874-1950); Canadians THIS CANADA OF OURS, by JAMES DAVID EDGAR Poem Source First Line: Let other tongues in older lands Subject(s): Canada TO CHARLEY, by GEORGE FREDERICK CAMERON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Hast thou the poet-gift? Thou hast Last Line: A sheridan—without his shames! Subject(s): Brothers; Canada; Epigram (as Literary Form); Honor; Poetry & Poets; Half-brothers; Canadians TOWARDS THE LAST SPIKE, SELS., by EDWIN JOHN PRATT Poet's Biography Alternate Author Name(s): Pratt, E. J. Subject(s): Canada; Canadian Pacific Railway; Railroads; Van Horne, Sir William (1843-1915) TRANS CANADA, by FRANCIS REGINALD SCOTT Poem Source First Line: Pulled from our ruts by the made-to-order gale Last Line: And here is no shore, no intimacy, %only the start of space,the road to suns Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, F. R. Subject(s): Aviation And Aviators; Canada TRINITY COLLEGE, TORONTO, by WILSON PUGSLEY MACDONALD Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I wrap about me this cold cloak of rain Last Line: Nor heeds the ghosts that follow in his tread. Subject(s): Trinity College, Toronto, Canada TWO CAMPERS IN CLOUD COUNTRY, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Full Text Poem Explanation Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this country there is neither measure nor balance Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Canada; Nature; Canadians TWO CAMPERS IN CLOUD COUNTRY, by SYLVIA PLATH Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: In this country there is neither measure nor balance Last Line: We'll wake blank-brained as water in the dawn Alternate Author Name(s): Hughes, Ted, Mrs. Subject(s): Canada; Nature TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO, by WILLIAM HENRY DRUMMOND Poem Text First Line: Two honder year ago, de worl' is purty slow Last Line: For de flag of de salle an' cadillac. Subject(s): Canada; Canadians VISIONS OF MACKENZIE KING, by JOHN UPDIKE Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: I, william lyon mackenzie king Last Line: Shaving soap spoke to me, of mother and dogs, %in those decades of demons of whom I was one Subject(s): Canada; King, William Lyon Mackenzie (1874-1950) W.L.M.K., by FRANCIS REGINALD SCOTT Poem Source First Line: How shall we speak of canada, %mackenzie king dead? Last Line: Do nothing by halves %which can be done by quarters Alternate Author Name(s): Scott, F. R. Subject(s): Canada; King, William Lyon Mackenzie (1874-1950); Politics WHITE EYES, by ANNE WALDMAN Poem Source Poet Analysis Poet's Biography First Line: Friends & relatives Last Line: & everybody was watching. Subject(s): Ancestry & Ancestors; Canada; Family Life; Travel; Canadians; Relatives; Journeys; Trips WILDERNESS GOTHIC, by ALFRED WELLINGTON PURDY Poem Full Text Poet's Biography First Line: Across roblin lake, two shores away Alternate Author Name(s): Purdy, Al Subject(s): Canada; Canadians WILDERNESS GOTHIC, by ALFRED WELLINGTON PURDY Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Across roblin lake, two shores away Last Line: Two shores away, a man hammering in the sky. %perhaps he will fall Alternate Author Name(s): Purdy, Al Subject(s): Canada WINTER IN LOWER CANADA, FR. THE EMIGRANT, by STANDISH HAYES O'GRADY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Thou barren waste; unprofitable strand Last Line: And one sound policy conduct the whole. Subject(s): Canada; Winter; Canadians WRITTEN ON PASSING DEAD-MAN'S ISLAND, IN THE GULF OF ST. LAWRENCE, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: See you, beneath yon cloud so dark Last Line: As would blanch for ever her rosy light! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Magdalen Islands (canada) YOUNG CANADA, OR JACK'S AS GOOD AS HIS MASTER, by ALEXANDER MCLACHLAN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: I love this land of forest grand Last Line: And jack's as good's his master! Subject(s): Canada; Patriotism; Canadians |
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