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Jean Blewett

1862–1934

Jean Blewett (born Jean McKishnie, 1862–1934) was a Canadian poet and journalist who wrote for the Toronto press and was widely read in Canada in her day.

Her verse, much of it in Scots and rural dialect, was gathered in Heart Songs (Toronto, 1897) and The Cornflower, and Other Poems (Toronto, 1906), both given here.

Poems (231)

  1. Wooing His Valentine
  2. Jealous, Sweetheart?
  3. The Day Neil Rode to Mill
  4. At Joppa
  5. The World is Growing Old
  6. At Dawn
  7. She
  8. The Two Marys
  9. The Mother’s Lecture
  10. Spring
  11. Reminiscences
  12. Ammiel’s Gift
  13. Robin
  14. Margot
  15. Dreamland
  16. Only a Picture
  17. Her Boy
  18. The Indian Girl
  19. Some Joys We May Not Keep
  20. In Sunflower Time
  21. As It Began to Dawn
  22. Her Lesson
  23. Until We Meet
  24. His Care
  25. With Her Sunshine, Breeze and Dew
  26. What the Poppies Said
  27. Eve
  28. Ring Out Glad Song
  29. In the Conservatory
  30. A Bud
  31. Envy
  32. A Fancied Loss
  33. How Close?
  34. In the Wood
  35. Lac Deschene
  36. Deserted
  37. My Neighbor
  38. Hollyhocks
  39. The Miscreant
  40. Her Birthday
  41. Slander
  42. Summer Holidays
  43. Violet
  44. My Lady of the Silver Tongue
  45. Sweeping to the Sea
  46. Minerva’s Essay
  47. To the Queen
  48. In the Old Church
  49. September
  50. Spring o’ the Year
  51. Mildred
  52. The Old Valentine
  53. The Boy of the House
  54. For He was Scotch and so was She
  55. The Legend of Love
  56. Our Father
  57. Jack
  58. A Pledge
  59. Blue-Eyed Bess
  60. The Courtier’s Ladye
  61. The Rustic’s Lassie
  62. Her Dower
  63. Mavourneen
  64. Song of the Wind
  65. The Richer Man
  66. His Wife and Boy
  67. She Just Keeps House for Me
  68. Love’s Humility
  69. Our Host and His House
  70. The Mother’s Story
  71. In Lovers’ Lane
  72. O Last Days of the Year
  73. Back on the Farm
  74. He Meditates on the Critic
  75. Jacynth
  76. Her First Sleigh-Ride
  77. His Own Little Black-Eyed Lad
  78. Be Good and Glad
  79. The Making Up
  80. O Radiant Stream
  81. My Sweetbriar Maid
  82. My Canada
  83. Perfect Peace
  84. The King’s Gift
  85. I Love Her Well
  86. Good-Night
  87. Her Gold
  88. Good-Bye to Work
  89. Somebody
  90. My Little Maid
  91. Heather White
  92. Grannie’s Message to Jack
  93. The Ever and Ever So Long Ago
  94. The Height
  95. Her Portrait
  96. God Loveth Us
  97. An Etching
  98. Shadows
  99. A Merrie Christmasse Untoe Ye
  100. Marguerite
  101. The Hoar Frost on the Wood
  102. Two Creeds
  103. His Ex-Platonic Friend
  104. The Grave
  105. Settled by Arbitration
  106. The Circuit
  107. Gethsemane
  108. My Friend
  109. The Prodigal
  110. At Quebec
  111. The Tea-Kettle’s Tune
  112. The Creed of Love
  113. In the Clover-Field
  114. Lullaby
  115. A Sunset Talk
  116. Truth Upon Honor
  117. Elspeth’s Daughter-in-law
  118. Cold Water
  119. Long Time Ago
  120. The Meanest Man
  121. To Lillian Massey Treble
  122. The Cornflower
  123. The Quarrel
  124. The Old Man's Visit
  125. At the Sick Children's Hospital
  126. Christy and the Pipers
  127. The Stable-Boy's Guest
  128. Soldiers All
  129. As Good As a Girl
  130. Fool's Luck
  131. The Harbor Lights of Home
  132. The Preacher Down at Coles
  133. Chore Time
  134. A Boy's Trials
  135. An April Fool of Long Ago
  136. The Ploughman
  137. Two Monuments
  138. The Lonesomest House
  139. Janet
  140. The Lad from Inverness
  141. All on an April Morning
  142. Sly Boy
  143. Queen Victoria
  144. Thankfulness
  145. The Native Born
  146. The King's Gift
  147. The Passage
  148. Air Castles
  149. Youth and June
  150. The Mother
  151. Love's Lesson
  152. Immortality
  153. August
  154. A Song of Harvest Home
  155. The Usurer
  156. Miracles
  157. Peace
  158. Life's Grandest Things
  159. Strength
  160. The Time and the Deed
  161. Discontent
  162. A Prayer of Love
  163. Wild Strawberries
  164. Madam Grundy
  165. The Splendor of the Days
  166. God's Warmth Is She
  167. Her Prayer
  168. Decorating the Old Church
  169. The Song of the Bells
  170. Men O' the Forest Mark
  171. A Song of Cheer
  172. The Firstborn
  173. St. Patrick's Day
  174. Lesley
  175. The Tryst
  176. A Good Woman
  177. Despair
  178. Our Dead in South Africa
  179. The Barley Fields
  180. The Imprisoned Lark
  181. Woman
  182. The Mullein Meadow
  183. Living Freshness
  184. Life's Day
  185. Morning
  186. Friend or Foe?
  187. The Highland Shepherd
  188. Christmas Conversion
  189. A Bit O' Shamrock
  190. Slander
  191. Archibald Lampman
  192. A Hint
  193. Chrysanthemum's Court
  194. Her Little Way
  195. The Criticism
  196. Jessie
  197. Poynings
  198. Song of the Golden Sea
  199. The Cricket
  200. Earth to the Twentieth Century
  201. Thail Burn
  202. The Lake Shore Road
  203. Magdalene
  204. My Lady Nightingale
  205. The Orchard
  206. October
  207. St. Andrew's Day--A Toast
  208. When Trees Are Green
  209. O Radiance of Life's Morning
  210. The Idler
  211. The Trust
  212. When Paganini Plays
  213. To-Day You Understand
  214. Love's Sacrifice
  215. When the Dusk Comes Down
  216. The Ghosts of Night
  217. Forgive and Forget
  218. The Argument
  219. The Secret
  220. The Treasure Box
  221. The Message
  222. Estranged
  223. The Parting
  224. Margaret
  225. St. Valentine
  226. Two June Nights
  227. Remembrance
  228. The Emigrant Laddie
  229. Love's Service
  230. April
  231. In Memoriam

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