Poetry Codex

American

Alexander McLachlan

1818–1896

Alexander McLachlan (1818–1896), born in Scotland, emigrated to Canada in 1840 and farmed in Ontario while writing popular verse in the manner of Burns.

He was often called the Burns of Canada. One of the poets chosen by W. D. Lighthall for Songs of the Great Dominion (London, 1889), an anthology of Canadian verse.

Poems (7)

  1. Fire in the Woods; or, The Old Settler's Story
  2. Acres of Your Own
  3. The Hall of Shadows
  4. October
  5. Bobolink
  6. May
  7. Old Hannah

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