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

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

For the month,  the sixth of ten poems I  find interesting, amusing, and/or infuriating. Unconventional Easter verse, eight decades old this...

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

Verse for the day by son of Antigonish J.D. Logan. This version is taken from his Songs of the Makers of Canada and Other Homeland Lyrics (...

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

On the one hundred and fifty-second anniversary of the Dominion, "God Guide Thee Canada" from Harold S. Wood's Your Home...

Verse for la Fête by nineteenth-century hipster Paul de Malijay from his  Saint Jean-Baptiste: L'évangile et le Canada . A "So...

Easter verse written in the midst of the Great War by Anglican Lilian Leveridge from her debut collection Over the Hills of Home and Oth...

From Canadian Poets , John W. Garvin, ed (Toronto: McClelland, Goodchild & Stewart) From  Jean Blewett's Poems  (Toronto: McC...

A poem – and prayer – by Laura Salverson, from Wayside Gleams , her only collection of verse, published in 1925 by McClelland & Stew...

For this Thanksgiving weekend, verse from Canada's beloved Poet Laureate of the Home. First published in 1932, "Thankful for Wh...

Mature juvenilia by Ethel Ursula Foran, from her first volume, Poems: A Few Blossoms from the Garden of My Dreams (Montreal: Beauc...