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Archibald Lampman

1861–1899

Archibald Lampman (1861–1899), born at Morpeth, Ontario, was a Post Office clerk in Ottawa and the leading poet of the Confederation generation.

His first book, Among the Millet and Other Poems, appeared in 1888. One of the poets chosen by W. D. Lighthall for Songs of the Great Dominion (London, 1889), an anthology of Canadian verse.

Poems (144)

  1. Heat
  2. Clouds
  3. Midsummer Night
  4. April
  5. An Old Lesson from the Fields
  6. The Frogs
  7. To My Wife
  8. An October Sunset
  9. An Impression
  10. Spring on the River
  11. Why Do Ye Call the Poet Lonely
  12. Among the Timothy
  13. Freedom
  14. Morning on the Lièvres
  15. In October
  16. Lament of the Winds
  17. Ballade of Summer's Sleep
  18. Winter
  19. Winter Hues Recalled
  20. Storm
  21. Midnight
  22. Song of the Stream-Drops
  23. Between the Rapids
  24. New Year's Eve
  25. Unrest
  26. Song
  27. One Day
  28. Sleep
  29. Three Flower Petals
  30. Passion
  31. A Ballade of Waiting
  32. Before Sleep
  33. A Song
  34. What Do Poets Want with Gold?
  35. The King's Sabbath
  36. The Little Handmaiden
  37. Abu Midjan
  38. The Weaver
  39. The Three Pilgrims
  40. The Coming of Winter
  41. Easter Eve
  42. The Organist
  43. The Monk
  44. The Child's Music Lesson
  45. An Athenian Reverie
  46. Love-Doubt
  47. Perfect Love
  48. Love-Wonder
  49. Comfort
  50. Despondency
  51. Outlook
  52. Gentleness
  53. A Prayer
  54. Music
  55. Knowledge
  56. Sight
  57. Winter-Thought
  58. Deeds
  59. Aspiration
  60. The Poets
  61. The Truth
  62. The Martyrs
  63. A Night of Storm
  64. The Railway Station
  65. A Forecast
  66. In November
  67. The City
  68. The Loons
  69. March
  70. Solitude
  71. Autumn Maples
  72. The Dog
  73. To My Mother
  74. The Sweetness of Life
  75. God-Speed to the Snow
  76. April in the Hills
  77. Forest Moods
  78. The Return of the Year
  79. Favorites of Pan
  80. The Meadow
  81. In May
  82. Life and Nature
  83. With the Night
  84. June
  85. Distance
  86. The Bird and the Hour
  87. After Rain
  88. Cloud-Break
  89. The Moon-Path
  90. Comfort of the Fields
  91. At the Ferry
  92. September
  93. A Re-Assurance
  94. The Poet's Possession
  95. An Autumn Landscape
  96. By an Autumn Stream
  97. Snowbirds
  98. Snow
  99. Sunset
  100. Winter-Store
  101. The Sun Cup
  102. Alcyone
  103. In March
  104. The City of the End of Things
  105. The Song Sparrow
  106. Inter Vias
  107. Refuge
  108. April Night
  109. Personality
  110. To My Daughter
  111. Chione
  112. To the Cricket
  113. The Song of Pan
  114. The Islet and the Palm
  115. A Vision of Twilight
  116. Evening
  117. The Clearer Self
  118. To the Prophetic Soul
  119. The Land of Pallas
  120. Among the Orchards
  121. The Poet's Song
  122. A Thunderstorm
  123. Sapphics
  124. Voices of Earth
  125. Peccavi, Domine
  126. An Ode to the Hills
  127. Indian Summer
  128. Good Speech
  129. The Better Day
  130. White Pansies
  131. We Too Shall Sleep
  132. The Autumn Waste
  133. Vivia Perpetua
  134. The Mystery of a Year
  135. Winter Evening
  136. War
  137. The Woodcutter's Hut
  138. Amor Vitæ
  139. Winter-Break
  140. In November
  141. The City
  142. The Larger Life
  143. Temagami
  144. Wayagamack

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