Title : The Dread Voyage: Poems
Author : Wilfred Campbell
Release date : September 19, 2018 [eBook #57937]
Language : English
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POEMS
BY
WILLIAM WILFRED CAMPBELL.
Author of “Lake Lyrics”
Toronto
WILLIAM BRIGGS
Montreal: C. W. Coates Halifax: S. F. Huestis
1893
Entered, according to the Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year one thousand eight hundred and ninety three, by William Wilfred Campbell , Ottawa, in the office of the Minister of Agriculture, at Ottawa.
TO
ALEXANDER McNEILL, Esq.
,
AND
R. C. WELDON, Ph.D.
,
THIS VOLUME IS AFFECTIONATELY
DEDICATED.
Ottawa, March, 1893.
CONTENTS.
PAGE | |
The Dread Voyage | 11 |
Winter | 14 |
The Last Ride | 17 |
The Confession of Tama the Wise | 24 |
Storm | 37 |
Sir Lancelot | 39 |
In Autumn | 52 |
Unabsolved | 55 |
The Dreamers | 71 |
The Mother | 79 |
Dusk | 86 |
Out of Pompeii | 87 |
Morning on the Shore | 90 [Pg 8] |
Pan the Fallen | 91 |
The Cloud Maiden | 95 |
The Were-Wolves | 98 |
Belated | 103 |
An August Reverie | 109 |
In the Spring Fields | 114 |
In a June Night | 115 |
Harvest Slumber Song | 120 |
Autumn | 122 |
To the Rideau River | 126 |
In the August Fields | 134 |
In the Strength of the Morning | 135 |
An October Evening | 141 |
December | 143 |
Premonitions | 146 |
Love | 150 |
A December Morning | 151 |
In the Freedom of the Spring | 152 [Pg 9] |
The Children of the Foam | 159 |
How One Winter Came in the Lake Region | 164 |
Midwinter Storm in the Lake Region | 167 |
To the Lakes | 169 |
Moonlight | 173 |
On a Summer Shore | 174 |
On the Shore | 177 |
To Mighty Death Concerning Robert Browning | 181 |
The Dead Leader | 187 |
A DRAMATIC MONOLOGUE.
(This poem is founded on the confession of a man who went with one of the expeditions to save Sir John Franklin’s party, and who, being sent ahead, saw signs of them, but, through cowardice, was afraid to tell.)
I.
II.
AGE.
JUNE 10, 1891.
Transcriber's Notes:
The cover image was created by the transcriber, and is in the public domain.
Uncertain or antiquated spellings or ancient words were not corrected.
Typographical errors have been silently corrected but other variations in spelling and punctuation remain unaltered.
Some poems in the original had a full page identifying the poem as well as a heading at the beginning of the poem. The full page poem headings have been removed from this edition as being redundant.