Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Preface v
3. Contents vii
4. Introduction xv
5. POETRY
6. Orion and Other Poems
7. Orion 5
8. Epistle to W. Bliss Carman 21
9. Dedication 25
10. In Divers Tones
11. Canada 29
12. Actiæon 32
13. In the Afternoon 40
14. The Pipes of Pan 44
15. To Fredericton in May-Time 47
16. In September 48
17. A Serenade 49
18. Rain 50
19. The Tantramar Revisited 51
20. On the Creek 54
21. The Sower 57
22. The Potato Harvest 58
23. Tides 59
24. Consolation 60
25. The Footpath 61
26. Liberty (From the French of Louis Honore Frechette) 63
27. Birch and Paddle (To Bliss Carman) 64
28. An Ode for the Canadian Confederacy 68
29. The Quelling of the Moose (A Melicite Legend) 70
30. The Departing of Clote Scarp 72
31. The Poet is Bidden to Manhattan Island 74
32. Ave: An Ode for the Centenary of the Birth of Percy Bysshe Shelley
33. Ave 79
34. Songs of the Common Day
35. Prologue 95
36. The Furrow 95
37. The Waking Earth 96
38. The Cow Pasture 97
39. When Milking-Time is Done 97
40. Frogs 98
41. The Salt Flats 99
42. The Pea-Fields 99
43. The Mowing 100
44. Burnt Lands 101
45. The Clearing 101
46. Buckwheat 102
47. The Oat-Threshing 103
48. The Autumn Thistles 103
49. The Pumpkins in the Corn 104
50. The Winter Fields 105
51. In an Old Barn 105
52. Midwinter Thaw 106
53. The Flight of the Geese 107
54. In the Wide Awe and Wisdom of the Night 107
55. The Herring Weir 108
56. Blomidon 109
57. O Solitary of the Austere Sky 109
58. Marsyas 110
59. Severance 111
60. Epitaph for a Sailor Buried Ashore 112
61. The Silver Thaw 112
62. The Lily of the Valley 114
63. The Wild-Rose Thicket 115
64. Grey Rocks and Greyer Sea 115
65. New Year's Eve (After the French of Frechette) 116
66. How the Mohawks Set Out for Medoctec 118
67. The Wood Frolic 121
68. The Book of the Native
69. Where the Cattle Come to Drink 127
70. An Epitaph for a Husbandman 127
71. The Stillness of the Frost 129
72. A Child's Prayer at Evening 129
73. The Frosted Pane 130
74. The Brook in February 130
75. Beside the Winter Sea 131
76. The Trout Brook 132
77. Butterflies 134
78. An August Wood-Road 134
79. The Lone Wharf 136
80. Twilight on Sixth Avenue 137
81. New York Nocturnes and Other Poems
82. Presence 141
83. In a City Room 142
84. A Nocturne of Consecration 143
85. An Evening Communion 147
86. Beyond the Tops of Time 149
87. At Tide Water 152
88. The Falling Leaves 153
89. The Solitary Woodsman 154
90. Ice 156
91. Ascription 157
92. Poems
93. The Skater 161
94. On the Elevated Railroad at 110th Street 163
95. The Flocks of Spring 164
96. Brooklyn Bridge 165
97. At the Drinking Fountain 166
98. The Farmer's Winter Morning 167
99. In the Barn-Yard's Southerly Corner 169
100. The Logs 171
101. The Book of the Rose
102. The Fear of Love 175
103. The Native 176
104. Child of the Infinite 178
105. Lines for an Omar Punch-Bowl 180
106. The Aim 182
107. New Poems
108. 'The Unknown City' 185
109. O Earth, Sufficing All Our Needs 187
110. Monition 188
111. All Night the Lone Cicada 189
112. From the High Window of Your Room 190
113. The Hour of Most Desire 191
114. The Stream 192
115. Going Over 193
116. The Vagrant of Time
117. The Vagrant of Time 197
118. In the Night Watches 200
119. Hath Hope Kept Vigil 202
120. Epitaph 203
121. Spring Breaks in Foam 204
122. Philander's Song (From 'The Sprightly Pilgrim') 204
123. The Iceberg and Other Poems
124. The Iceberg 207
125. Taormina 217
126. Presences 219
127. The Squatter 221
128. Westcock Hill 225
129. Spirit of Beauty 227
130. Quebec, 1757 (From the French of Philippe Aubert de Gaspe) 229
131. To a Certain Mystic 230
132. Canada Speaks of Britain
133. Peace with Dishonour 235
134. Two Rivers 236
135. Twilight over Shaugamauk 240
136. Critical Prose
137. The Beginnings of a Canadian Literature 243
138. The Outlook for Literature: Acadia's Field for Poetry, History and Romance 260
139. Introduction to Poems of Wild Life 265
140. Wordsworth's Poetry 271
141. The Poetry of Nature 276
142. Shelley's Adonais 282
143. A Note on Modernism 296
144. From the Prefatory Note to Selected Poems 302
145. Notes 305
146. Bibliography 317
147. Index of Poems 319