The Dusty Bookcase

Ah, August, month of my birth. I've always found it too hot and too humid – rarely more so than this year. In "The Passing of Père ...

Verse for the day by Agnes Maule Machar from  Lays of the 'True North' and Other Canadian Poems (Toronto: Copp, Clark, 1899). No le...

The Dustiest Bookcase: Short pieces on books I've always meant to review (but haven't). Marjorie's Canadian Winter: A Story ...

For this Easter Sunday, verse by Agnes Maule Machar, daughter of Church of Scotland clergyman John Machar, from her 1899 collection Lays of ...

For this Easter Sunday, 'In Memoriam—H.W.L., A Noble Teacher' by  Agnes Maule Machar, "first of Dominion poetesses." I...

  A NEW YEAR’S WISH   'To know the love of Christ, that passeth knowledge.'                 To know by surest inner sight ...

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

Dominion Day, Vancouver, 1890 From  Lays of the 'True North' and Other Canadian Poems Agnes Maule Machar London: Elliot Sto...

"A Thanksgiving Hymn" by Agnes Maule Machar (a/k/a Fidelis), from the revised edition of her Lays of the 'True North,&#...