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V. 1.From Voyages of Jacques Cartier: The first voyage, 1534 ; Of the harbour called St. Anthony's Harbour ; How, when our people had sent two men on shore / Jacques Cartier -- Letter to Richard Hakluyt / Stephen Parmenius -- From The theatre of Neptune in New France / Marc Lescarbot -- From Quodlibets: 79. The four elements in Newfoundland ; 80. To all those worthy women ; 81. To a worthy friend ; 101. To the first planters of Newfoundland ; 117. A Skeltonical continued rhyme in praise of my Newfoundland / Robert Hayman -- From A brief relation of the journey to New France / Paul Le Jeune -- A veritable account of the martyrdom and blessed death of Father Jean de Brebeuf and Father Gabriel Lalemant / Christophe Regnaut -- From Memoirs of odd adventures, strange deliverances, etc., in the captivity of John Gyles: The first year / John Gyles -- From the History of Emily: Montague ; Letter XLV ; Letter LXXX; Letter CL / Frances Brooke -- From Journal of a voyage from Pownalboro' to Halifax / Jacob Bailey -- Song for a fishing party near Burlington ; Ode for the New Year / Jonathan Odell -- From Travels and adventures in Canada and the Indian Territories ; Massacre at Fort Michilimackinac / Alexander Henry -- Ode for the Year 1778 ; God save the King ; To Cordelia / Joseph Stansbury -- From A journey from Prince of Wales's fort in Hudson's Bay to the Northern Ocean ; The coppermine massacre / Samuel Hearne -- Hymn VIII against carnal mirth ; Hymn IX A sinner awakened ; Hymn XIII on death ; Hymn LII The conduct of most sailors / Henry Allaine -- A description of the Great Falls, of the River Saint John, in the province of New Brunswick / Adam Allan -- From Voyage of discovery to the North Pacific Ocean ; Burrard Inlet ; From Quebec Hill or, Canadian scenery ; Summer ; Winter / J. Mackay -- From David Thompson's narrative: Swan River Country / David Thompson -- From The letters of Mephibosheth: Stepsure ; Letter IX / Thomas McCulloch -- From The Canadians of old: La Corriveau / Philippe Aubert De Gaspe -- The rising village / Oliver Goldsmith -- From Winter studies and summer rambles in Canada: Upper Canada ; Alexander Henry / Anna Jameson -- From Mackenzie's own narrative of the Rebellion / William Lyon Mackenzie -- The clockmaker ; The silent girls; Aiming high ; Valedictory address / Thomas Chandler Haliburton -- From Wacousta: Fort Michilimackinac / John Richardson -- From The backwoods of Canada: Letter VIII / Catharine Parr Traill -- From Roughing it in the bush: Introduction ; A visit to Grosse Isle / Susanna Moodie -- From Western rambles: Cornwallis Township ; Song for the 8th June ; The Micmac ; Coming home / Joseph Howe -- From Sonnets in Jephthah's daughter: IV. Childhood alone is glad. With it time flees ; IX. To spend dull evenings when dull day is done ; XIV. The stars are glittering in the frosty sky ; XVIII. How great unto the living seem the dead! / Charles Heavysege -- The hungry year. Part I / William Kirby -- We lean on one another ; We live in a rickety house ; From the Emigrant: The greenwood shade ; Cartha again ; Young Canada / Alexander McLachlan -- From The St. Lawrence and the Saguenay ; From Sonnets written in the Orillia Woods, August 1959: V. Blest Spirit of Calm that dwellest in these woods! ; VIII. Above where I am sitting, o'er these stones ; XVI. My footsteps press, where centuries ago ; XXII. Dark, dismal day: the first of many such! ; Brock / Charles Sangster -- The dead / Octave Cremazie -- My visit to Fairview Villa / Rosanna Leprohon -- D'Anville's Fleet ; From De Roberval: Niagara / John Hunter-Duvar -- From The Lady of the ice: Crossing the St. Lawrence / James De Mille -- From The great lone land: An ocean of grass / William Francis Butler -- From Tecumseh: Act II, Scene 4 / Charles Mair -- The Discovery of the Mississippi ; January ; Cap Eternite / Louis Frechette -- Privilege of the limits / Edward William Thomson -- Malcolm's Katie ; Said the canoe ; The city tree ; The camp of souls ; The dark stag / Isabella Valancy Crawford -- The winter lakes ; Indian summer ; How one winter came in the Lake Region ; September in the Laurentian Hills ; The higher kinship ; The politician ; Nature / Wilfred Campbell -- From Postscript to adventure. The autobiography of Ralph Connor ; Highland religion / Charles Gordon -- Dedication to Orion and Other Poems ; The Tantramar revisited ; An ode for the Canadian confederacy ; In September ; In the wide awe and wisdom of the night ; The herring weir ; The salt flats ; The pea-fields ; The mowing ; Marsyas ; The skater ; The prisoners of the pitcher-plant ; The poetry of nature / Charles G.D. Roberts -- Low tide on Grand Pre ; A northern vigil ; A windflower ; The ships of St. John ; Overlord ; At the yellow of the leaf ; Lord of my heart's elation ; The great return ; Softer than the hill-fog to the forest ; Easter eve ; Morning in the hills / Bliss Carman -- From Saunterings: November 25, 1886 / Sara Jeannette Duncan -- Shadow river ; Marshlands ; Silhouette ; The corn husker / Pauline Johnson -- Heat ; Among the Timothy ; The railway station ; In November ; Snow ; The city of the end of things ; The land of Pallas ; The autumn waste ; On the companionship with nature ; In the city ; A sunset at Les Eboulements ; The modern politician ; A forest path in winter ; On Lake Temiscamingue ; True passion / Archibald Lampman -- Night and the pines ; The piper of Arll ; Watkwenies ; The forsaken ; On the way to the mission ; The sea by the wood ; The wood by the sea ; The height of land ; At Gull Lake: August, 1810 ; At Delos / Duncan Campbell Scott -- From Sunshine sketches of a little town ; The marine excursions of the Knights of Pythias / Stephen Leacock -- D'Sonoqua / Emily Carr -- From The stream runs fast: A gentleman of the old school] / Nellie McClung -- The shooting of Dan McGrew ; The trial of Ninety-Eight ; My cross / Robert Service -- River morning ; The blue heron ; The desolate cabin ; Fiddler's Green ; The wreckers' prayer / Theodore Goodridge Roberts -- By the fireside ; The garden of the past ; Christ on the cross ; A woman passing by ; The ship of gold ; The poet's wine ; Old fantasist / Emile Nelligan -- From The journal of Louis Hemon: From Liverpool to Quebec / Louis Hemon -- Pere Lalemant ; On Amaryllis ; Two souls ; Stars ; Snow in April ; Canada's century / Marjorie Pickthall. V. 2. Snow / F.P. Grove -- The toll of the bells ; The shark ; Sea-gulls ; The sea-cathedral ; From stone to steel ; The prize cat ; Come away, Death ; The truant ; Towards the last spike / E.J. Pratt -- The window / Ethel Wilson -- Pine gum ; Flowers ; Night scene ; Reciprocal ; Winter scene ; Blue flowers ; The diver / W.W.E. Ross -- Vocations / Philippe Panneton (Ringuet) -- The plowman ; Lake harvest ; The hawk ; Autumn clouds ; The loading / Raymond Knister -- Trees in ice ; The Canadian authors meet ; Overture ; Spain:1937 ; North stream ; Lakeshore ; W.L.M.K ; Vision ; Japanese sand garden ; On the terrace, Quebec ; Winter sparrows ; From Letters from the Mackenzie River 1956 ; V Fort Providence / F.R. Scott -- With your dress ; Is it already the hour ; Let us close the cupboard ; Wedding ; The ambiguous dawn ; From Born in Quebec, Luis Joliet: The discovery of the Mississippi / Alain Grandbois -- Like an old proud king in a parable ; To a young poet ; The plot against Proteus ; Ode: On the death of William Butler Yeats ; Sea cliff ; The lonely land ; News of the Phoenix ; To Henry Vaughan ; Wild raspberry ; My death / A.J.M. Smith -- Ancient lineage / Morley Callaghan -- The wedding gift / Thomas Raddall -- Kootenay still-life ; Vancouver lights ; The road to Nijmegen ; Biography ; Bushed ; Pachucan miners ; The bear on the Delhi Road ; A walk in Kyoto ; Wind-chimes in a temple ruin ; North of superior ; Alaska passage ; Fusion / Earle Birney -- Words for a resurrection ; Epithalamium before frost ; Shore ; Prophesy for Icarus ; Exile endured / Leo Kennedy -- From Saskatchewan: The land and the people / Edward McCourt -- Scotchman's return / Hugh MacLennan -- Penny in the dust / Ernest Buckler -- The lamp at noon / Sinclair Ross -- From "The Conscript's return" / Gratien Gelinas -- Deserted buildings under Shefford Mountain ; Utrillo's world ; Quebec farmhouse ; One last word ; From Memoirs of Montparnasse / John Glassco -- In the Yukon ; Armorial ; Aspects of some forsythia branches ; The philosophy of the Parthenon ; On the top of Milan Cathedral ; Hyacinths with brevity ; Green disposition / Ralph Gustafson -- Sonnet in time of affliction ; From The Hiteriad I: Heil heavenly muse ; Psalm VI ; Psalm XXXVI ; Lookout: Mount Royal ; The rocking chair ; Grain elevator ; The cripples ; Portrait of the poet as landscape ; Autobiographical / A.M. Klein -- Fire and reason ; Green rain ; Day and night ; Fantasia ; Bartok and the geranium ; On looking into Henry Moore ; Eve ; House amongst trees ; Another journey schizoid ; Unexpected guest / Dorothy Livesay -- By day and by night / Gabrielle Roy -- Still stands the house / Gwen Ringwood -- Lens ; Easter sketches, Montreal ; Tigers know from birth ; South, north ; Poem in three parts ; Nature be damned ; Roches Point / Anne Wilkinson -- The game ; Pines against the light ; A sealed house ; Autrefois ; Bird cage ; Another Icarus ; Un bon coup de Guillotine / Saint-Denys Garneau -- The wwimmer ; The black huntsmen ; Cemetery in August ; The birth of tragedy ; Red chokecherries ; For Mao-Tse-tung: A meditation on flies and kings ; Butterfly on rock ; A tall man executes a jig ; The haunting ; Pole-vaulter ; The unwavering eye ; The human cry ; O Jerusalem / Irving Layton -- From A voice from the attic: True humor uncontrollable ; Humor a dangerous profession ; Career of a popular humorist / Robertson Davies -- The pool ; Ice at last ; O Earth, turn! ; Old-fashioned chords ; Remembrance ; Spring moon ; Wild apples / George Johnston -- One of the regiment ; The wounded prince ; Coureurs de Bois ; A country without a mythology ; The net and the sword ; Stragglers / Douglas LePan -- You muffed it / Claire Martin -- The liar hunter / W.O. Mitchell -- The tomb of the kings ; The lean girl ; The water fishermen ; The little towns ; The wooden room ; Life in the castle ; Snow ; Spring over the city / Anne Hebert -- The bands and the beautiful children ; Stories of snow ; The metal and the flower ; T-Bar ; Photos of a salt mine ; Portrait of Marina ; Arras ; Now this cold man ; Cook's mountains / P.K. Page -- The hand / Yves Theriault -- Green world ; In the park ; Green World Two ; Looking for strawberries in June ; The Nineteenth Thirties are over ; Transformations ; Grand Manan sketches / Miriam Waddington -- The iconoclasts ; Perspective ; Snow ; Butterfly bones; or Sonnet against sonnets ; From a provincial ; Meeting together of poles and latitudes (in prospect) ; The swimmer's moment ; A nameless one ; The dumbfounding / Margaret Avision -- From A library window ; A street in April ; On poetry ; The pomegranate ; From En Europe: 19: The commotion of these waves ; 95: The sea retains such images ; Coming suddenly to the sea ; From Prologue to Atlantis / Louis Dudek -- Roblin's mills ; Necropsy of love ; The cariboo horses ; The country north of Belleville ; Trees at the Arctic Circle ; Elegy for a grandfather ; Wilderness gothic ; Tourist itinerary ; Freydis Eriksdottir in Greenland ; Borderlands ; Inside the mill / Al Purdy -- Antigone / Sheila Watson -- The bridge ; The flood / Jacques Ferron -- Young girls ; Lagoons, Hanlan's Point ; Flight of the roller-coaster ; Legende ; The six-quart basket ; All this slow afternoon ; Words before a statue of champlain ; The sirens ; Queen Anne's Lace ; First holiday morning ; These wild crabapples / Raymond Souster -- Granite's not firm enough ; Valley by 'bus: November ; Sunrise north ; Christmas Day: Road to Oban ; Mirrors ; On becoming an ancestor / Elizabeth Brewster -- From Minotaur poems II My father was always in the garage ; Children of the sun ; David ; Marina ; Houdini ; At Wabamun the Calgary Power Station ; Estevan, 1934 ; Envoi / Eli Mandel -- The island ; The trout pond ; I've tasted my blood ; Pastoral on Saint-Urbain Street ; Knowing I live in a dark age ; Offshore breeze ; Whale poem / Milton Acorn -- To set our house in order / Margaret Laurence -- Antichrist as a child ; The plum tree ; The red heart ; From "A message to Winnipeg": Winnipeg seen as a body of time and space ; Le tombeau de Pierre Falcon ; From Twelve letters to a small town: I. To the Avon River above Stratford, Canada ; XII. The bicycle ; The tall black hat ; The morning dew / James Reaney -- That yellow prairie sky / Robert Kroetsch -- Patience ; Marvell's garden ; Lament ; Breaking ; Making ; From "Non Linear": A curve/broken ; Near the white Tanabe / Phyllis Webb -- The fruit man, the meat man & the manager / Hugh Hood -- Heritage of sadness ; Our October ; For my repatriation ; The reign of winter ; Commonplaces / Gaston Miron -- Saisons mortes ; Landscape estranged ; Greener than nature ; The age of the word ; The song comes from within ; All my south / Roland Giguere -- Northern water thrush ; Schoolgirls ; Beautiful creatures brief as these ; Portrait of Anne Hebert ; I thought there were limits ; Winter walk ; Dance for one leg / D.G. Jones -- The boatman ; The faithful shepherd ; Eve in reflection ; Of creatures the net ; House lights ; The well ; Lost books & dead letters / Jay Macpherson -- Winter wind / Alice Munro -- The summer my grandmother was supposed to die / Mordecai Richler -- A television drama / Jane Rule -- They heard a ringing of bells / Austin Clarke -- Indian / George Ryga -- A poem for Elizabeth Nancy ; The bull moose ; Dancer ; Daughter of Zion ; For Jean Vincent d'Abbaidie, Baron St-Castin ; The fresh-ploughed hill ; Hymn to Dionysus ; Canadian January night ; Marriage ; A pinch or two of dust ; A call in December / Alden Nowlan -- Heliotrope ; Uncle Nathan speaking from landlocked green ; Balloon flowers ; Extraterrestrial bumblebee ; Of dandelions & tourists ; The bird of the highest place ; Tragedy / Joe Rosenblatt -- The sparrows ; Prayer for sunset ; Beneath my hands ; As the mist leaves no scar ; For Anne ; For E.J.P. ; Another night with telescope ; From The energy of slaves: I am invisible to night ; I walk through the old yellow sunlight ; Overheard on every corner / Leonard Cohen -- Where is the voice coming from? / Rudy Wiebe -- Wattle ; Grandfather ; Family ; For WCW ; The swing ; East to west ; The egg ; Weight / George Bowering -- A stone diary ; Rumours of war ; Last letter to Pablo ; Reflecting sunglasses ; In the silence between / Pat Lowther -- In praise of music in time of pestilence ; Patroclus putting on the armour of Achilles ; Point Grey ; Lovers of the river ; On this rock ; Tacitus loquitur / Daryl Hine -- Steps ; The wedding / Roch Carrier -- On the river / David Godfrey -- Lion in Macdonald Park ; One step from an old dance ; Figures in a landscape ; Images of the sun ; The death of Harlequin ; From Barn poems: 1. The window is a hole ; From the Vinland Saga / David Helwig -- Good company, fine houses ; The double-headed snake ; Everyone ; Samuel Hearne in wintertime ; The pride ; If you would walk ; The stone for his grave / John Newlove -- A place: Fragments ; The animals in that country ; At the tourist centre in Boston ; Backdrop addresses cowboy -- Further arrivals ; Disembarking at Quebec ; Departure from the bush ; Procedures for underground ; For archeologists ; You fit into me ; Tricks with mirrors ; I made no choice ; There is only one of everything / Margaret Atwood -- Everything / Margaret Atwood -- An act of pity / Marie-Claire Blais -- Pre-revolution poem: I lament for the fourth of June 1963 ; Open shutters ; From: The signpainter screams / Paul Chamberland -- Treaty-trip from Shulus Reservation ; Hastings Street rooms ; The bird ; The sun has begun to eat the mountain ; The hustler ; Pissaro's tomb / Patrick Lane -- From Civil Elegies: 3. The light rides away ; 6. I am one / Dennis Lee -- A class of new Canadians / Clark Blaise -- Eden, Eden ; Universe and ; A breakfast for barbarians ; Poems in Braille ; Inside the Great Pyramid ; The heel ; Dark pines under water ; The shadow-maker ; The armies of the moon ; The demon of Thursday ; Second-degree burns ; Everyone knows / Gwendolyn MacEwen -- After dinner butterflies / Matt Cohen -- Words ; After nightfall ; My word is green ; Letter to a very dear old man ; Without status ; The bugbear / Andre Major -- Biography ; Henri Rousseau and friends ; Pyramid ; From The collected works of Billy the Kid: After shooting Gregory ; She leans against the door ; The street of the slow moving animals ; Dates ; Heron Rex / Michael Ondaatje -- Blues ; eeeeee ; From Monotones: XI all that summer ; Postcard between 1970-71 ; From parallel lines ; Unemployment ; The ecology of place ; The Chilean elegies: 1. Salvador Allende ; Toronto streetcars ; Industrial music / Tom Wayman -- At Nootka Sound ; Mackenzie River, North ; Entrance of the Celebrant ; Witchery Way ; Equinox ; Anima ; Invocation ; Lure / Susan Musgrave.
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