I rose, and idly sauntered to the pane, And on the March-bleak mountain bent my look; And standing there a sad review I took Of what the day had brought me. What the gain...
What news to all alike brings startling sorrow? And he is dead, the vigorous chieftain dead? Nor e'en for him would death still brook to-morrow? No more shall followers vaunt and foemen dread;...
Where the purple-vestured mountains Bear their summits crowned with snow, Haughty lords of all the riches In the rocks and streams below; Tow'ring to the azure heavens, Frowning on the sapphire sea:...
Rejoice, O Canada, rejoice, On this thy natal day; In East and West lift up thy voice, And to thy children say: "Behold me now to stature sprung; Acclaim my second birth; A Nation now I stand among...
Titanic craft of many thousand tons, A smaller Britain free to come and go, Relying on thy ten terrific guns To daunt afar the most presumptuous foe; Thick-panoplied with plates of hardened steel,...
An April day, when skies are blue, And earth rejoices to renew Her vernal youth by lawn and lea, And sap mounts upward in the tree, And ruddy buds come bursting through;
Now is the Sun, erst spendthrift of his rays And lavish of his largesses of light, Become a miser in his latter days, An avaricious dotard, alter'd quite. Is he the same that all the summer long...
Stay of the church and pillar of the state! Who alway did'st to wrong thy voice oppose, And strong hast striven corruption to expose, And, jealous ever for thy country's fate,...