PREFATORY NOTE

CONTENTS

ACROSS THE FOG THE MOON LIES FAIR

THE FURROW

THE SOWER

THE WAKING EARTH

THE COW PASTURE

WHEN MILKING-TIME IS DONE

FROGS

THE SALT FLATS

THE FIR WOODS

THE PEA-FIELDS

THE MOWING

BURNT LANDS

THE CLEARING

THE SUMMER POOL

BUCKWHEAT

THE CICADA IN THE FIRS

IN SEPTEMBER

A VESPER SONNET

THE POTATO HARVEST

THE OAT-THRESHING

THE AUTUMN THISTLES

INDIAN SUMMER

THE PUMPKINS IN THE CORN

THE WINTER FIELDS

IN AN OLD BARN

MIDWINTER THAW

THE FLIGHT OF THE GEESE

IN THE WIDE AWE AND WISDOM OF THE NIGHT

THE HERRING WEIR

BLOMIDON

THE NIGHT SKY

TIDES

THE DESERTED CITY

DARK

RAIN

MIST

MOONLIGHT

O SOLITARY OF THE AUSTERE SKY

AUTOCHTHON I I am the spirit astir To swell the grain When

THE TIDE ON TANTRAMAR I Tantramar ! Tantramar! I see thy cool

THE VALLEY OF THE WINDING WATER

MARSYAS

THE FORTRESS

SEVERANCE

EPITAPH FOR A SAILOR BURIED ASHORE

THE SILVER THAW

THE LILY OF THE VALLEY

THE NIGHT-HAWK

THE HERMIT-THRUSH

THE WILD-ROSE THICKET

MY TREES

THE HAWKBIT

GREY ROCKS AND GREYER SEA

A SONG OF CHEER

A SONG OF GROWTH

TO G. B. R.

THE BIRD'S SONG, THE SUN, AND THE WIND

OH, PURPLE HANG THE PODS

BRINGING HOME THE COWS

THE KEEPERS OF THE PASS

NEW YEAR'S EVE (AFTER THE FRENCH OF FRECHETTE)

A CHRISTMAS-EVE COURTIN'

THE SUCCOUR OF GLUSKaP (A MICMAC LEGEND)

HOW THE MOHAWKS SET OUT FOR MEDOCTEC

THE WOOD FROLIC

CANADIAN STREAMS

AVE! AN ODE FOR THE CENTENARY OF SHELLEY'S BIRTH I O tranquil

SONGS OF THE COMMON DAY

SONGS

OF THE COMMON DAY
AND
AVE!

AN ODE FOR THE SHELLEY CENTENARY

BY
CHARLES G. D. ROBERTS

TORONTO
WILLIAM BRIGGS
Montreal: C. W. COATES.       Halifax: S. F. HUESTIS

1893



TO

BLISS   CARMAN

FRIEND, KINSMAN, AND FELLOW CRAFTSMAN