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Theodore Harding Rand

1835–1900

Theodore Harding Rand (1835–1900) was a Canadian educator and poet, a Doctor of Civil Law who served as Superintendent of Education in Nova Scotia and in New Brunswick and later taught at McMaster University, Toronto. He is also named on the title page of Song-Waves as the author of A Treasury of Canadian Verse.

His verse appeared in At Minas Basin, and Other Poems (Toronto: William Briggs, 1897), mostly sonnets and lyrics of the Bay of Fundy and the Annapolis Valley, and in Song-Waves (Toronto: William Briggs, 1900), a sequence of short untitled lyrics followed by a handful of titled poems.

Poems (169)

  1. Poesy Speaks
  2. At Minas Basin
  3. The Rain Cloud
  4. The Rose
  5. A Willow at Grand Pré
  6. The Bowing Dyke
  7. Love's Immanence
  8. Mystery
  9. The Night-Fisher
  10. A Deep-Sea Shell
  11. A Red Sunrise
  12. The Opal Fires are Gone
  13. The Cumulus Cloud
  14. Sea Fog
  15. Partridge Island
  16. Tennyson Rock
  17. Of Beauty
  18. The Undertow
  19. Glooscap
  20. Silas Tertius Rand
  21. The Tireless Sea
  22. The Veiled Presence
  23. Resistless Fate
  24. The Sea Undine
  25. To Emeline
  26. The Cirrus Cloud
  27. Day and Night
  28. Under the Beeches
  29. The Nightingale
  30. The Loon
  31. Hepaticas
  32. In the Mayflower Copse
  33. June
  34. An Inland Spruce
  35. The Ghost Flower
  36. Annapolis Basin
  37. In Autumn's Dreamy Ear
  38. Victor is He!
  39. McMaster University
  40. Conduct
  41. International Arbitration
  42. The House of God
  43. Ben Nachmani
  44. Renewal
  45. The Christ
  46. Revelation
  47. Light at Eventide
  48. Ben Shalom
  49. Banishment
  50. Now are the Bridals of the Leafy Wood
  51. May's Fairy Tale
  52. My Robin
  53. Elissa
  54. The Humming-Bird
  55. The Hepatica
  56. The White Rose (At ----'s Grave)
  57. The War Hercules
  58. In the Cool of the Day
  59. Beauty
  60. The Dragonfly
  61. Deathless
  62. A Dream
  63. Nature
  64. "I Am"
  65. The Glad Golden Year
  66. Tetrapla
  67. Fairy Glen
  68. In City Streets
  69. Bay of Fundy
  70. At the Look-off (Partridge Island)
  71. The Stormy Petrel
  72. Oblivion
  73. Sea Music
  74. Summer Fog
  75. The Arethusa
  76. The Old Fisher's Song
  77. Nora Lee
  78. To W
  79. Marie Depure
  80. "By the Love." An Easter Idyll
  81. To Emeline (Song-Waves)
  82. O soul, that art essential change
  83. Spirit of Song, life's golden ray
  84. Impressions vast and vague flow in
  85. 'Tis fit the bloodroot in white hood
  86. The sweep, O heart, of Love's account!
  87. Superbest power with sweetness wed
  88. Above the scarred cliff's iron brow
  89. After the winds there is surcease
  90. Filled oft with portents, oft withdrawn
  91. Who loveth not the elm tree fair
  92. Men plow and sow while moves the sun
  93. Doubt flies before the truth that's quired
  94. The bird of needle beak, and breast
  95. Pure lily, open on the breast
  96. Revolving without rest and goal
  97. O June has lit her splendid lamp
  98. A quiet breath distils in calm
  99. Far-off and veiled it seems to me
  100. Vast promise is the sea, and vast
  101. Calm soul, unkindled by the sight
  102. There are no solitudes to view
  103. If mighty angels fair and tall
  104. Across the hills the cattle call
  105. The "trees of God," the prophet said
  106. The flecks of gold that glorify
  107. The ideal is a lifting sky
  108. The spirit firm and swelling soul
  109. Man's highest word, as God's above
  110. Love bows herself in holy prayer
  111. As on a hill-top near the sun
  112. Sunshine, O soul, is not a mood--
  113. A bird on sudden, as I write
  114. Fresh sprig of greenest southernwood
  115. I feel the season's dreamy call
  116. This golden-browed September land
  117. I keep one picture in my heart
  118. As turns my heart its crimson leaves
  119. Sure in this realm of Sense and Time
  120. All day an ashen light serene
  121. Never before has my ear heard
  122. Dimly beheld, thou excellent
  123. Fair as the light on fire-tipt hills
  124. With lathe of viewless hyaline
  125. Her steps fall sweet as summer rain
  126. Celestial sweetness swift outstrips
  127. Unnumbered traits shine in thy face
  128. The scarlet arch of evening fills
  129. This tiny life, with exquisite wings
  130. Philosophy doth dig and draw
  131. The infinite in grand repose
  132. Two lives made one, the man and wife
  133. The mirrored silence of this pool
  134. Over the brow of lofty scar
  135. Look now! The crested waters sleep
  136. How swift soft-feathered Time sails on
  137. My quickened sense can only plod.
  138. What Nature mirrors and reveals--
  139. Green tracery of fern to rust
  140. What, though the sea-shell cheats the ear
  141. Says one who with the sad condoles
  142. There ever wakes an evil wraith
  143. Far up the brook, beyond the lin
  144. The full ripe year, these maple hills!
  145. I dreamed I drew my parting breath
  146. "The world's a train at speeding rate
  147. Hope's clear blue eye is open wide
  148. I see that power is not in art
  149. Unveiled as kinsman, Love did seek
  150. O glorious light! Thy limpid wave
  151. Hail, Mary, honored of the race!
  152. Frail Lucia of a mutual love!
  153. O patriot, ruler, leader great
  154. The sword and spear and savage knife
  155. Love's inspirations of the lyre
  156. Like oxeye daisies of the field
  157. The sovereign law of human life
  158. Break into flower, O garden fair!
  159. Immortal Love, immortal ruth
  160. The Whitethroat
  161. Summer
  162. Glory-Roses
  163. The Wind
  164. The Crystal Spring
  165. Ay Me!
  166. The Years
  167. The Note of Nature
  168. At The Ford
  169. Repose

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