Centennial tales and selected poems.

"The poems in this collection are framed about the history of Canada, and are written in honour of the nation's Centennial in 1967. This volume also contains some lyrics from Dr. Kirkconnell's light opera, The Mod at Grand Pré, and the whole of his Greek-style drama, Let My People Go...

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Main Author: Kirkconnell, Watson, 1895-1977 (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Toronto] Published for Acadia University by University of Toronto Press [1965]
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • CONTENTS
  • PREFACE
  • Selected Original Verse
  • CENTENNIAL TALES
  • The Alaska Crossing
  • Sheguiandah, Manitoulin Island
  • The Serpent-Mound, Rice Lake
  • Leif Speaks to Freydis
  • A Rime of Glooscap
  • John Cabot
  • The Order of Good Cheer
  • Henry Hudson
  • The Dowry and the Citadel
  • The French Nursing Sisters
  • The French Armada
  • The Bicentennial Twins
  • Napoleon Opens Our Forests
  • The Seven Oaks Massacre
  • The March on Lindsay
  • William Hale, V.C
  • The Quebec Conference
  • The Riding Song of the Mounties
  • The Green Curse of Van Home
  • Moses Comes to Canaan
  • Sir William Otter's Tale
  • The Vimy Memorial
  • In Perpetuum, Frater
  • The Man Who Wrestled the Grizzly Bear
  • The Lay of Elijah
  • The Italian Campaign
  • The Cipher Clerk
  • My Name is Legion
  • The Canadians in Cyprus
  • The Two Muses
  • After Atomic Holocaust
  • The Starker Alternative
  • THE CORONARY MUSE
  • The Grateful Heart
  • Sed. Index
  • The 25th Day
  • Drink to me Only-with Maalox
  • The Electrocardiogram
  • Five Milligrams are Best
  • The Mummies
  • Three A.M.
  • The Mopster
  • The Bird with the Leaky Beak
  • LET MY PEOPLE GO
  • From THE MOD AT GRAND PRÉ
  • Hail, Genealogy
  • We're Allergic to you English
  • I'm Looking for Mimi
  • The Thirteenth Louis
  • Along the Tides of Minas
  • Gie us a platter o' haggis
  • MISCELLANEOUS POEMS
  • Foreword on Request
  • The Returning
  • The Road to Bethlehem
  • Nova Scotia Suite
  • Kirkconnell, Galloway, A.D. 600
  • The Hills of Remembrance
  • Aesop Up-to-date
  • The Agony of Israel
  • Manitoba Symphony
  • Rain on the Waste Land
  • To Horace
  • The Ayrshire Muse
  • Holy Joe
  • A Ballad of Saint Andrew
  • A Western Idyll
  • The Crow and the Nighthawk
  • From Manitoba Limericks
  • From Saskatchewan Limericks
  • On the Death of Marshal Joseph Pilsudski
  • Pilsudski's Heart
  • Draža Dies a Martyr.
  • From THE FLYING BULL AND OTHER TALES
  • The Flying Bull
  • Usquedunk, the Frog-king
  • The Captain's Cat
  • The Trapper and the Bears
  • A Latter-day Job
  • The Manitoba Stonehenge
  • The Men Who Vanished
  • The Fort Henry Tunnel
  • The Abandoned Farmhouse
  • The Drifting Corpse
  • The Courting of Olga Karg
  • The Magyar Violinist
  • The Red River Tragedy
  • The Gimli Prodigal
  • The Jobless Gaolbird
  • The Darkening Dream
  • THE ETERNAL QUEST
  • Foreword
  • Proem
  • The Way of a Scholar
  • The Way of a Scientist
  • The Way of an Artist
  • The Way of a Warrior
  • The Way of a Gambler
  • The Way of an Athlete
  • The Way of a Capitalist
  • The Way of a Jurist
  • The Way of an Inventor
  • The Way of a Lover
  • The Way of a Physician
  • The Way of a Worshipper
  • From CANADA TO ICELAND
  • Althing, 1930
  • From THE TIDE OF LIFE AND OTHER POEMS
  • Lines Written Near Gîzeh
  • The Wounded Dog
  • Faith without Hope
  • Boyhood
  • Fort Henry Revisited
  • High Winds
  • Selected Verse Translations
  • EUROPEAN ELEGIES
  • 1. To Calvus
  • 2. Animae Rerum
  • 3. Grey Hours
  • 4. Darkness
  • 5. Lacrimae Rerum
  • 6. My Tragic Muse
  • 7. In the Cemetery
  • 8. Pearl
  • 9. The Unendurable
  • 10. A Little Dust
  • 11. The Withered Leaf
  • 12. On the Heath
  • 13. Loss
  • 14. Autumn Dirge
  • 15. Autumn
  • 16. November
  • 17. Autumn Lament
  • 18. Bird song
  • 19. Sea-anguish
  • 20. The Dead Mistress
  • 21. Life's Voyage
  • 22. The Storm
  • 23. My Galley
  • 24. Winter Song
  • 25. Where Are the Songbirds?
  • 26. The Forest
  • 27. Winter Woods
  • 28. Sleeplessness
  • 29. To Sleep
  • 30. A Vain Appeal
  • 31. Unhappiness
  • 32. Night
  • 33. Time
  • 34. Memorial Stanzas
  • 35. Devouring Time
  • 36. The Grave
  • 37. The Hatefulness of Death
  • 38. Memento Mori
  • 39. Death
  • 40. Tomorrow
  • 41. The Calendar
  • 42. The Clock
  • 43. The Old Bridge
  • 44. Life
  • 45. Fate.
  • 46. Sahara Vitae
  • 47. The Lament Of Admetus
  • 48. Funeral Song
  • 49. Written in New Cemetery
  • 50. The Stranger
  • 51. The Song of Grief
  • 52. Mourning
  • 53. A Churchyard Flower
  • 54. Infinity
  • 55. The Day Is Dark
  • 56. The Sun-dirge
  • 57. Three Springs
  • 58. Unrest
  • 59. Love Knows but Loss
  • 60. Heart, My Heart
  • 61. April
  • 62. The Cuckoo
  • 63. May Night
  • 64. A Night in May
  • 65. Spring Night
  • 66. Tears of Sleep
  • 67. "Pulse of My Heart
  • 68. Death, the Reaper
  • 69. Morning
  • 70. Clouds of Silver
  • 71. On the Old Bridge
  • 72. May Roses
  • 73. To Adolphe Gaiffe
  • 74. By the Grave of the Countess Potocka
  • 75. As the Rose Blossoms on Her Vernal Spray
  • 76. To Memory
  • 77. To Isabel
  • 78. Her Picture
  • 79. A Name
  • 80. Her Faith
  • 81. Her Influence
  • 82. Her Legacy
  • 83. Grief
  • 84. Fallen Lark
  • 85. Grief At Dawn
  • 86. After Rain
  • 87. The Cloud
  • 88. Broken Pines
  • 89. The Sail
  • 90. Evening Peace
  • 91. The Burden of the Night
  • 92. FiatNox
  • 93. Wanderer's Evensong
  • 94. Twilight
  • 95. In a Cemetery
  • 96. Autumn Song
  • 97. Nocturne
  • 98. All Tired Things
  • 99. Evening
  • 100. A Man's Last Word to a Woman
  • From THE NORTH AMERICAN BOOK OF ICELANDIC VERSE (1930)
  • The Ballad of Thrym
  • The Ballad of Tristram
  • Remembrance
  • I Sail in the Fall
  • From THE MAGYAR MUSE (1933)
  • A Flag
  • The Victor
  • For Just One Night
  • What Became of Christ's Blood?
  • The Lost Horseman
  • The Sorrowing Husband
  • From CANADIAN OVERTONES (1935)
  • Fragments from "En Route
  • The Old House
  • The Care of the Bees
  • The Close of Summer
  • In Wartime
  • From A GOLDEN TREASURY OF POLISH LYRICS (1936)
  • To His Lady
  • Clear Matutinal Light
  • To His Mistress
  • Liberty
  • From THE RHAETOROMANIC TRADITION (1937)
  • The March of the Dead
  • From A SKALD IN CANADA (1939)
  • Luke 16: 22.
  • From POEMS BY ADAM MICKIEWICZ (1944)
  • To My Russian Friends
  • From THE QUEBEC TRADITION (1946)
  • The Worker in the Fields
  • Before Two Portraits of My Mother
  • Hymn to the North Wind
  • Our Language
  • The "Sanctus" at Home
  • From A LITTLE TREASURY OF HUNGARIAN VERSE (1947)
  • The Tavern by the Little Town
  • The Four-Ox Cart
  • From MISCELLANEOUS PERIODICALS
  • The Wood
  • Horace, Odes, IV, 7
  • On the Birth of Christ
  • The Gloomy Forest
  • They Walled Up Every Window
  • From PAN TADEUSZ (1962)
  • The Seneschal Blows His Horn
  • Jankiel Plays the Dulcimer
  • From THE UKRAINIAN POETS
  • The Highway Builders
  • The Guildsman Kuperian
  • Treachery
  • From Thirst
  • Vergil
  • The Amulet
  • Love Ukraine
  • The Rainy Night
  • From THE POETICAL WORKS OF TARAS SHEVCHENKO
  • It is all one
  • God's Axe
  • Pretty Katie
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PUBLISHED VERSE.