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William Wilfred Campbell

1860–1918

William Wilfred Campbell (1860–1918), born at Newmarket, Ontario, was an Anglican clergyman who later became a civil servant and one of the Confederation poets.

His Lake Lyrics and Other Poems appeared in 1889. One of the poets chosen by W. D. Lighthall for Songs of the Great Dominion (London, 1889), an anthology of Canadian verse.

Poems (26)

  1. A Canadian Folk-Song
  2. In the North-West
  3. The Heart of the Lakes
  4. Vapour and Blue
  5. Medwayosh
  6. Manitou
  7. To the Lakes
  8. The Legend of Restless River
  9. Morning on the Beach
  10. Dawn in the Island Camp
  11. Lake Huron
  12. Indian Summer
  13. A Mid-Winter Night's Dream
  14. With Cortez in Mexico
  15. Stella Flammarum
  16. Lines on a Skeleton
  17. Wind
  18. The Tragedy of Man
  19. The Lyre of Life
  20. October Morning
  21. The Month of Ripeness
  22. A Canadian Galahad
  23. The Mother
  24. Lines on a Re-reading of Parts of the Old Testament
  25. England
  26. The Were-Wolves

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