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Charles G. D. Roberts

1860–1943

Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts (1860–1943) was a Canadian poet and prose writer, born in Douglas, New Brunswick. He studied at the University of New Brunswick, taught and edited in Toronto and New York, and became famous for his animal stories as well as his poems.

His volumes of verse include Orion, and Other Poems (1880), Songs of the Common Day (1893) and New York Nocturnes (1898). Anthologists of his own time grouped him with the American poets.

Poems (161)

  1. Grey Rocks, and Greyer Sea
  2. The Recessional
  3. Canada
  4. An Ode for the Canadian Confederacy
  5. Collect for Dominion Day
  6. The Departing of Clote Scarp
  7. Burnt Lands
  8. Birch and Paddle
  9. On the Creek
  10. The Tantramar Revisited
  11. In the Afternoon
  12. The Fir Woods
  13. Frogs
  14. The Maple
  15. To Winter
  16. Across the Fog the Moon Lies Fair
  17. The Furrow
  18. The Sower
  19. The Waking Earth
  20. The Cow Pasture
  21. When Milking-Time Is Done
  22. The Salt Flats
  23. The Pea-Fields
  24. The Mowing
  25. The Clearing
  26. The Summer Pool
  27. Buckwheat
  28. The Cicada in the Firs
  29. In September
  30. A Vesper Sonnet
  31. The Potato Harvest
  32. The Oat-Threshing
  33. The Autumn Thistles
  34. Indian Summer
  35. The Pumpkins in the Corn
  36. The Winter Fields
  37. In an Old Barn
  38. Midwinter Thaw
  39. The Flight of the Geese
  40. In the Wide Awe and Wisdom of the Night
  41. The Herring Weir
  42. Blomidon
  43. The Night Sky
  44. Tides
  45. The Deserted City
  46. Dark
  47. Rain
  48. Mist
  49. Moonlight
  50. O Solitary of the Austere Sky
  51. Autochthon
  52. The Tide on Tantramar
  53. The Valley of the Winding Water
  54. Marsyas
  55. The Fortress
  56. Severance
  57. Epitaph for a Sailor Buried Ashore
  58. The Silver Thaw
  59. The Lily of the Valley
  60. The Night-Hawk
  61. The Hermit-Thrush
  62. The Wild-Rose Thicket
  63. My Trees
  64. The Hawkbit
  65. A Song of Cheer
  66. A Song of Growth
  67. To G. B. R.
  68. The Bird’s Song, the Sun, and the Wind
  69. Oh, Purple Hang the Pods
  70. Bringing Home the Cows
  71. The Keepers of the Pass
  72. New Year’s Eve
  73. A Christmas-Eve Courtin’
  74. The Succour of Gluskâp
  75. How the Mohawks Set Out for Medoctec
  76. The Wood Frolic
  77. Canadian Streams
  78. Ave! An Ode for the Shelley Centenary
  79. Kinship
  80. Origins
  81. An April Adoration
  82. An Oblation
  83. Resurrection
  84. Afoot
  85. Where the Cattle Come to Drink
  86. The Heal-All
  87. Recompense
  88. An Epitaph for a Husbandman
  89. The Little Field of Peace
  90. Renewal
  91. The Unsleeping
  92. Earth’s Complines
  93. Two Spheres
  94. The Stillness of the Frost
  95. A Child’s Prayer at Evening
  96. The Frosted Pane
  97. The Brook in February
  98. Beside the Winter Sea
  99. The Quest of the Arbutus
  100. The Jonquil
  101. The Trout Brook
  102. A Wake-up Song
  103. Butterflies
  104. July
  105. An August Wood Road
  106. Apple Song
  107. The Cricket
  108. The Train among the Hills
  109. The Lone Wharf
  110. The Witches’ Flight
  111. Three Good Things
  112. Trysting Song
  113. Love’s Translator
  114. Ebb
  115. Twilight on Sixth Avenue
  116. Mothers
  117. Up and Away in the Morning
  118. Home, Home in the Evening
  119. Sleepy Man
  120. The Wrestler
  121. The Ballad of Crossing the Brook
  122. Whitewaters
  123. The Forest Fire
  124. The Vengeance of Gluskâp
  125. The Muse and the Wheel
  126. The “Laughing Sally”
  127. The Ideal
  128. In the Crowd
  129. Night in a Down-town Street
  130. At the Railway Station
  131. Nocturnes of the Honeysuckle, I
  132. Nocturnes of the Honeysuckle, II
  133. My Garden
  134. Presence
  135. The Street Lamps
  136. In Darkness
  137. In the Solitude of the City
  138. A Nocturne of Exile
  139. A Street Vigil
  140. A Nocturne of Trysting
  141. In a City Room
  142. A Nocturne of Consecration
  143. An Evening Communion
  144. Life and Art
  145. Beyond the Tops of Time
  146. Dream-Fellows
  147. The Atlantic Cable
  148. When the Clover Blooms Again
  149. At Tide Water
  150. The Falling Leaves
  151. Marjory
  152. The Solitary Woodsman
  153. The Stirrup Cup
  154. Ice
  155. The Hermit
  156. “O Thou who bidd’st”
  157. Ascription
  158. Brooklyn Bridge
  159. In Apia Bay
  160. A Ballad of Manila Bay
  161. The Isles

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