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Showing posts with label Victoria Day verse. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Victoria Day verse. Show all posts
21 May 2018

The Queen is Dead

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Verse for Victoria Day, composed by Jean Blewett upon news of the monarch's death. This version is taken from The Cornflower and O...
22 May 2017

More Victoria Day Disaster Verse

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The Toronto Daily Mail 25 May 1881 John Wilson Bengough's poem on the wreck of the Victoria  on Victoria Day, 1881, off the banks ...
23 May 2016

Verse for Victoria Day from the Second World War

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Waiting's Wedding and Other Poems Amy Redpath Roddick Montreal: John Dougall & Sons, 1941 The Gazette , 26 May 1941 Re...
18 May 2015

Victoria Day Verse from Victoria

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An ode to the city, a tribute to Her Late Majesty, but more than anything a pitch to tourists, Victoria the Beautiful (self-publish...
19 May 2014

A Civil Servant's Awful Victoria Day Poem

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To be honest, I really dislike this year's verse to Victoria, choosing it only as an excuse to post this wonderful photograph of t...
21 May 2012

Cheery Victoria Day Verse from the Cheese Poet

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Cheese Poet James McIntyre's celebration of the naming of Victoria Park in his adopted hometown of Ingersoll, Ontario, from his M...
23 May 2011

Verse for Victoria Day by the Master of All Poets

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Queen's Park, Toronto, 1910 James Gay (1810-1891) was a gunsmith, a locksmith, a carpenter and an innkeeper; but more than all th...
24 May 2010

Victoria Day Poetry Disaster

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Poems of James McIntyre (Ingersoll, ON: Chronicle, 1889) Returning to James McIntyre – for the final time, I think – this poem...
18 May 2009

Queen Victoria and He

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A song for Victoria Day. Leonard Cohen 's words to our celebrated monarch, "mean governess of the huge pink maps", f...