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Title: Hesperus and Other Poems and Lyrics
Author: Charles Sangster
Release Date: March 13, 2008 [EBook #24819]
Language: English
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HESPERUS,
AND
Other Poems and Lyrics
BY CHARLES SANGSTER,
AUTHOR OF "THE ST. LAWRENCE AND THE SAGUENAY, AND OTHER POEMS"
Montreal:
JOHN LOVELL, ST. NICHOLAS STREET.
Kingston:
JOHN CREIGHTON, KING STREET.
1860.
Entered, according to the Act of the Provincial Parliament,
in the year one thousand eight hundred and sixty, by
CHARLES SANGSTER, in the office ef the Registrar of the
Province of Canada.
THESE
Poems and Lyrics
ARE
DEDICATED
TO
My Niece,
CARRIE MILLER,
OF
SANDWICH, C. W.
{v}
CONTENTS.
PAGE.
Dedicatory Poem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Hesperus . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Crowned . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Mariline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
The Happy Harvesters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Falls of the Chaudière, Ottawa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
A Royal Welcome . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Malcolm . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
The Comet, October 1858 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Autumn . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Colin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Margery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Eva . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76
The Poet's Recompense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
The Wine of Song . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
The Plains of Abraham . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Death of Wolfe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Brock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
Song for Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Song.—I'd be a Fairy King . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Song.—Love while you may . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
{vi}
The Snows, Upper Ottawa . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
The Rapid. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Lost and Found . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Again . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Glimpses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
My Prayer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Her Star . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
The Mystery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Love and Truth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
The Wren . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Grandpere . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
England's Hope and England's Heir . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Rose . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
The Dreamer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Night and Morning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Within thine eyes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Gertrude . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Flowers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
The Unattainable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Yearnings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
Ingratitude . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
True Love . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 126
An Evening Thought . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
A Thought for Spring . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
The Swallows . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Song.—Clara and I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
The April Snow Storm, 1858 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Good Night . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Hopeless . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 135
Into the Silent Land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
{vii}
SONNETS:—
Proem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Sonnet I . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162