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William M. MacKeracher

1871–1913

William Mackay MacKeracher (1871–1913) was a Canadian poet. His verse was published in Montreal and Toronto between 1890 and 1909, and the library catalogue gives his dates as 1871–1913. The prefatory letter to Vacation Verse shows him writing as a student, composing during the intervals of study for a college examination.

His books are Verses of Feeling and Fancy (Montreal: W. Drysdale & Co., 1890), Vacation Verse (Montreal: “Witness” Printing House, 1891), Canada, My Land, and Other Compositions in Verse (Toronto: William Briggs, 1908) and Sonnets and Other Verse (Toronto: William Briggs, 1909). They range from patriotic Canadian pieces and sonnets on Milton, Burns, Wolfe and Montcalm to seasonal poems, Scottish and Irish dialect pieces, and light verse.

Poems (144)

  1. Motive
  2. The Old Year
  3. A Summer Evening Scene in Chateauguay
  4. Lines written on a Sabbath Morning
  5. Reflections on a tree in Autumn
  6. A Parting
  7. Sonnet to Shelley
  8. Hope
  9. Sonnet to Dr. Macvicar
  10. Ah! Happy was I Yesternight
  11. Sonnet to Asterie
  12. Vain Transient World
  13. Fragment of a Hymn
  14. Prayer for Submission
  15. Sonnet to ------
  16. The Song of the Summer Cloud
  17. Montreal
  18. The Fever Burns from Morn till Eve
  19. Oh! the Sickening Sensation!
  20. The Noble Woman
  21. To a Star
  22. Veni, Vidi, Victus sum
  23. To my Couch
  24. Separation
  25. Treasured Memories
  26. To ------
  27. To an Umbrella
  28. E'en the fair Orb
  29. To Burns
  30. Could I but mention but thy Name
  31. Lines written in an Album
  32. Scene in the Trojan War
  33. Montreal
  34. "Our Father."
  35. Sometimes my Heart by cruel Care Opprest
  36. The Prayer of the Penitent Profligate
  37. God in Nature
  38. Reflections of a Jacobite
  39. The Oath of the French Loyalist
  40. Scotland: A Jacobite's Lament
  41. The Orphan Maid of Glencoe
  42. A Parody
  43. Tomakewaw,--A Parody
  44. The Principal's Ash-Barrel
  45. A Walk in Mount Royal Park: Canadian Cities
  46. Study in Solitude
  47. In the Sugar Bush
  48. In May
  49. The Battle of Chateauguay
  50. Evening in June
  51. Death of Sir John
  52. Dominion Day
  53. Rain for the Farmer
  54. Country Boy's Boast
  55. Before Harvest
  56. In Anticipation of Autumn
  57. Canada, My Land
  58. Forward, Canada!
  59. Canadian-Born
  60. Know'st Thou the Land?
  61. O Maple Leaf!
  62. Dominion Day
  63. Canada's Eighteen
  64. Dominion Day, 1900
  65. O Canada, Mon Pays, Mes Amours
  66. Sol Canadien, Terre Chérie
  67. My Own Canadian Girl
  68. The St. Lawrence
  69. St. Lawrence and the Coming Ships
  70. The Quebec Exodus
  71. Heat
  72. Invocation to Summer
  73. Sir Summer
  74. The Night
  75. To Beauty
  76. The Doctor
  77. My Valentine
  78. My Friends
  79. Nothing Too Good for the Irish
  80. An English Toast
  81. The Scot
  82. The Roarin' Game
  83. The Old Scottish Minister
  84. The Macs
  85. The Parson at the Hockey Match
  86. The Old and The New
  87. How Many a Man!
  88. The Saddest Thought
  89. The House-Hunter
  90. On Moving Into a New House
  91. Literature
  92. A Library
  93. On Charles Lamb's Sonnet, "Work."
  94. Work
  95. The Joy of Creation
  96. Adam
  97. A Shallow Stream
  98. A Faithful Preacher
  99. A Wish Rebuked
  100. The Sabbath
  101. Milton
  102. The Three Hundredth Anniversary of Milton's Birth
  103. Burns
  104. A Late Spring
  105. Autumn
  106. An Autumn Walk
  107. November
  108. November Sunshine
  109. Short Days
  110. The Beginning of Winter
  111. The Winter and the Wilderness
  112. The Immigrants
  113. Wolfe
  114. Montcalm
  115. The Coming of Champlain
  116. The Montagnais at Tadoussac
  117. Champlain's First Winter and Spring in Quebec
  118. Idleness
  119. Success
  120. The Exclusion of Asiatics
  121. The People's Response to Heroism
  122. An Aristocrat
  123. In Warehouse and Office
  124. H.M.S. "Dreadnought"
  125. The Revolution in Russia
  126. Tea's Apologia
  127. A Wish
  128. Alone with Nature
  129. The Works of Man and the Works of Nature
  130. A Day Redeemed
  131. Outremont
  132. The New Old Story
  133. Recreation
  134. Paestum
  135. Rondeau: An April Day
  136. Autumn
  137. My Two Boys
  138. My Old Classical Master
  139. The Gold-Miners of British Columbia
  140. War-ships in Port
  141. On Finding a Copy of Burns's Poems in the House of an Ontario Farmer
  142. The Ideal Preacher
  143. The Wheel of Misfortune
  144. Tim O'Gallagher

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