A Northern Romanticism: Poets of the Confederation

A Critical Edition

Edited by Tracy Ware

The Tecumseh Press Ltd. , 2000 Contents

Preface xiii

Isabella Valancy Crawford 1 Canada to England 4 The Roman Rose-Seller 5 War 7 The Camp of Souls 9 The Earth Waxeth Old 12 The Dark Stag 14 The Canoe 16 The Lily Bed 19 The Hidden Room 21 Gisli: the Chieftain 22

William Wilfred Campbell 36 Indian Summer 39 The Winter Lakes 39 Vapor and Blue 40 How One Winter Came in the Lake Region 41 Pan the Fallen 42 The Mother 44 The Dead Leader 48 The Dread Voyage 50 Morning on the Shore 51 An August Reverie 52 Bereavement of the Fields 54 The Lazarus of Empire 57 Phaethon 58 Nature 63

Charles G.D. Roberts 65 Ode to Drowsihood 69 To in May-Time 70 In the Afternoon 71 The Tantramar Revisited 74 The Pipes of Pan 77 The Poet is Bidden to Manhattan Island 79 Ave! 81 Marsyas 91 from Songs of the Common Day 93 The Furrow 93 The Sower 93 The Waking Earth 94 The Cow Pasture 94 Frogs 95 TheSaltFlats 96 The Pea Fields 96 The Mowing 97 Buckwheat 97 The Potato Harvest 98 The Oat-Threshing 98 The Autumn Thistles 99 The Pumpkins in the Corn 99 The Winter Fields 100 The Flight of the Geese 100 The Vengeance of Gluskap 101 The New York Nocturnes 102 The Ideal 102 In the Crowd 103 Night in a Down-town Street 103 At the Railway Station 104 Nocturnes of the Honeysuckle 105 My Garden 106 Presence 107 Twilight on Sixth Avenue 108 The Street Lamps 108 In Darkness 109 In the Solitude of the City 109 A Nocturne of Exile 110 A Street Vigil 110 A Nocturne of Trysting Ill In a City Room 112 A Nocturne of Consecration 112 The Skater 115 The Unknown City 116 Philander's Song 118 To a Certain Mystic 118 Two Rivers 119 123 The Railway Station 126 In October 126 Among the Timothy 127 Among the Millet 130 Morning on the Lievres 131 Between the Rapids 132 The Frogs 135 Heat 137 Winter Hues Recalledo 139 In November 142 A Sunset at Les Eboulements 143 Comfort of the Fields 144 An Autumn Landscape 146 On the Companionship with Nature 147 September 148 Indian Summer 150 The City of the End of Things 151 To an Ultra Protestant 153 To a Millionaire 154 Beauty 154 Alcyone 155 White Pansies 156 The Largest Life 157 The Land of Pallas 159 Winter Uplands 165 Epitaph on a Rich Man 166 At the Long Sault 166

Bliss Carman 170 from Low Tide on Grand Pre 173 Low Tide on Grand Pre 173 A Windflower 174 In Lyric Season 175 The Pensioners 176 Carnations in Winter 178 A Sea-Drift 178 The Eavesdropper 179 In Apple Time 180 In the Heart of the Hills 181 The Grave-Tree 183 By the Aurelian Wall 185 A Vagabond Song 188 ToP.V 188 from : One Hundred Lyrics 190 III Power and beauty and knowledge 190 IV O Pan of the evergreen forest 191 VI Peer of the he seems 192 VII The Cyprian came to thy cradle 193 XVIII The courtyard of her house is wide ... 194 XXIII I loved thee, Atthis, in the long ago ... 194 XXXIV "Who was Atthis?" men shall ask ... 195 XLI Phaon, O my lover 195 XLV Softer than the hill fog to the forest 196 LIV How soon will all my lovely days be over 196 LV Soul of sorrow, why this weeping? 197 LXI There is no more to say now thou art still 197 LXXVI Ye have heard how Marsyas 198 LXXXII Over the roofs the honey-coloured moon 198 LXXXIV Soft was the wind in the beech-trees 199 LXXXVII Hadst thou with all thy loveliness been true 199 LXXXVIII As on a morn a traveller might emerge 199 XCII Like a red lily in the meadow grasses .. 200 XCIII When in the spring the swallows all return 201 C Once more the rain on the mountain 201 The World Voice 203 Vestigia 204 The Ships of St. John 205 Victoria 207

Duncan Campbell Scott 208 The Magic House 211 The Reed Player 213 At Scarboro' Beach 214 In the Country Churchyard 215 The Cup 218 The Onondaga Madonna 219 The Piper of Aril 219 Watkwenies 225 Night Hymns on Lake Nipigon 225 The Ghost's Story 227 The Forsaken 228 On the Way to the Mission 231 An Impromptu 233 Lines in Memory of Edmund Morris 234 The Height of Land 242 The Closed Door 247 The Fragment of a Letter 247 En Route 249 Chiostro Verde 250 A Scene at Lake Manitou 252 At Gull Lake: August, 1810 256 Power 260

Notes to the Poems 262

Contexts 305 Charles G.D. Roberts, The of Nature 305 , in its Relation to the Poetry of England and America 310 Archibald Lampman, from Two Canadian Poets[:] A Lecture 321 , Poetic Interpretation 341 , Contemporaries—V. Mr. Charles G.D. Roberts 360 , A Decade of Canadian Poetry 368 , Poetry and Progress 379

Criticism 403 E.K. Brown, The Poetry of Our Golden Age 403 R.E. Rashley, The Significance of the Sixties Poetry 413 Malcolm Ross, Poets of the Confederation 423 Germaine Warkentin, The Problem of Crawford's Style 430 D.M.R. Bentley, The Poem in its Niche: Lampman's "The City of the End of Things" and its origins 447 , Into the West: "A Scene at Lake Manitou" 468 Susan Glickman, New Provinces? or, in Acadia, No Ego 489