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Showing posts with label Christmas verse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Christmas verse. Show all posts
25 December 2023

Bliss Carman's 'Christmas Song'

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Verse for the day from Bliss Carman's handsome  Later Poems (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1921).  Merry Christmas! Joyeux noël!  ...
25 December 2022

'Christmas' by S. Frances Harrison

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CHRISTMAS       Who will sing the Christ?                   Will he who rang his Christmas chimes                   Of faith and hope in Gos...
25 December 2021

'A Child's Song of Christmas' by Marjorie Pickthall

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On this Christmas Day, verse by Marjorie Pickthall from The Drift of Pinions (Montreal: University Magazine, 1913).  Merry Christmas from o...
25 December 2020

'A Mother at Christmas' by Edna Jaques

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Maclean's , 15 December 1934 Merry Chrismas! Joyeux Noël! Related posts: 'A Christmas Fantasy' by Bernard Freeman Trotter 'W...
24 December 2020

'Old Lady Christmas Shopping' by Edna Jaques

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Edna Jaques, Poet Laureate of the Home, as captured by J.W. Tetlow for the 1 September 1951 issue of Maclean's magazine. This poem come...
25 December 2019

'A Christmas Fantasy' by Bernard Freeman Trotter

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For the day, Christmas verse by a twenty-one-year-old Bernard Freeman Trotter, taken from A Canadian Twilight and Other Poems of War and...
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25 December 2018

'When Christmas Comes' by Virna Sheard

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Verse for the day by Virna Sheard (née Stanton), daughter of Cobourg, Ontario, from her collection The Miracle and Other Poems (Toro...
03 December 2018

Robert W. Service's Revised Christmas Miracle (with the poet's forgotten reading instructions)

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Much of this past weekend was spent in preparation for Christmas, but I did manage a couple of hours with the December 1918 edition ...
25 December 2017

Great War Christmas Verse from a Century Past

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Lens, France 25 December 1917 A poem by Arthur Stringer from the December 1917 issue of Maclean's. Christmas Bells in War Time...
25 December 2016

'Christmas, 1916' by Robert Stanley Weir

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from After Ypres and Other Poems Robert Stanley Weir Toronto: Musson, 1917 Related posts: A Century-Old Prayer for C...
24 December 2016

A Century-Old Prayer for Christmas

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from Canada First and Other Poems James A. Ross Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1920 Related posts: Timely Verse from a Chr...
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25 December 2015

Timely Verse from Christmas a Century Past

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The Globe , 25 December 1915 A CHRISTMAS STAR                     Christmas chimes across the snow,                          Can ...
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25 December 2014

Christmas Verse by Master of All Poets James Gay

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For the day, Victorian verse from Canada's Poet by James Gay, self-proclaimed  Master of All Poets and Poet Laureate of Canada , of...
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24 December 2014

Miss Machar's 'The Call of Christmas - 1914'

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The title poem from Agnes Maule Machar's "The Call of Christmas – 1914". What can be said about this scarce chapbook...
19 December 2014

Arthur Stringer Pines for Christmas Past

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Seasonal verse found in Arthur Stringer's The Woman in the Rain and Other Poems (Boston: Little, Brown, 1907). The writer was ...
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25 December 2013

Christmas Greetings from Gay Page!

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from The Workshops and Other Poems Gay Page (pseud. Florence N. Horner Sherk) Fort William, ON: Times-Journal, 1919 Verse of ...
25 December 2012

Christmas Verse by Isabel Ecclestone Mackay

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from Fires of Driftwood (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1922)  A Merry Christmas to all! Related posts: Christmas Verse fr...
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