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The Cornflower
and Other Poems
BY
JEAN BLEWETT
Author of "Heart Songs,"
etc.
TORONTO
WILLIAM BRIGGS
1906
Entered according to Act of the
Parliament of Canada, in the year
one thousand nine hundred and six,
by JEAN BLEWETT, at the Department
of Agriculture.
TO
Lillian Massey Treble
A woman with a heart of gold
I heard her called before I knew
How noble was that heart and true,
How full of tenderness untold.
Her sympathies both broad and sure,
Her one desire to do the right—
Clear visioned from the inner light
God gives to souls unworldly, pure.
A heart of gold that loves and gives,
God's almoner from day to day,
Of her there is but this to say:
The world is better that she lives.
I heard her called before I knew
How noble was that heart and true,
How full of tenderness untold.
Her sympathies both broad and sure,
Her one desire to do the right—
Clear visioned from the inner light
God gives to souls unworldly, pure.
A heart of gold that loves and gives,
God's almoner from day to day,
Of her there is but this to say:
The world is better that she lives.
CONTENTS
Narrative Poems— 13 The Cornflower 15 The Quarrel 21 In Sunflower Time 26 The Wooing o' Katie 32 The Old Man's Visit 39 Jack 44 At the Sick Children's Hospital 49 Christy and the Pipers 53 The Stable-boy's Guest 58 Soldiers All 61 As Good as a Girl 64 Fool's Luck 67 The Harbor Lights of Home 72 The Preacher Down at Coles 77 Chore Time 89 A Boy's Trials
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align="right">92 An April Fool of Long Ago 95 For He was Scotch and so was She 98 The Ploughman 100 Two Monuments 103 The Lonesomest House 107 Daddy's Boy 110 Janet 113 The Lad from Inverness 116 All on an April Morning 119 Billy 121 Sly Boy 124 Miscellaneous Poems— 127 Queen Victoria 129 Thankfulness 131 The Native Born 132 The King's Gift 134 The Passage 135 Air Castles 136 Youth and June 136 The Mother 137 Love's Lesson 140
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align="left">Immortality 141 August 141 A Song of Harvest Home 142 The Usurer 143 Miracles 144 Peace 144 Life's Grandest Things 145 Strength 146 The Time and the Deed 146 Discontent 147 A Prayer of Love 149 Wild Strawberries 150 Spring 151 Madam Grundy 153 The Splendor of the Days 154 God's Warmth is She 155 Her Prayer 156 Decorating the Old Church 158 Envy 159 The Song of the Bells 160 Quebec 161 Men o' the Forest Mark
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href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@35779@[email protected]#Page_160" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">162 A Song of Cheer 163 The Firstborn 164 St. Patrick's Day 165 Lesley 166 The Tryst 167 A Good Woman 168 Despair 169 Our Dead in South Africa 170 The Barley Field 171 The Imprisoned Lark 172 Woman 174 The Mullein Meadow 175 Living Freshness 176 Life's Day 177 Morning 178 Grace 179 The Way to Dreamland 181 Her Mission 182 Friend or Foe? 183 The Highland Shepherd 184 Christmas Conversion 185
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href="@public@vhost@g@gutenberg@html@files@35779@[email protected]#Page_185" class="pginternal" tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">A Bit o' Shamrock 187 Slander 188 Archibald Lampman 189 A Hint 190 Chrysanthemum's Court 191 Her Little Way 192 The Criticism 193 Jessie 195 Poynings 197 Song of the Golden Sea 201 Dawn 202 The Cricket 204 Earth to the Twentieth Century 205 Thail Burn 208 The Lake Shore Road 209 Magdalene 210 My Lady Nightingale 211 The Orchard 212 October 213 St. Andrew's Day—A Toast 214 When Trees Are Green 216 O Radiance of Life's Morning
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tag="{http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml}a">219 The Idler 220 The Trust 221 When Paganini Plays 223 To-day You Understand 225 Love's Sacrifice 226 When the Dusk Comes Down 229 The Ghosts of Night 231 The Long Ago 233 Forgive and Forget 234 The Argument 236 The Secret 238 Vashti 239 The Treasure Box 241 The Message 244 Estranged 245 The Parting 246 Margaret 247 St. Valentine 248 Two June Nights 249 Remembrance 250 The Emigrant Laddie 251 Love's
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Service 252 April 254 In Memoriam 255