At Minas Basin and Other Poems — Poesy Speaks
(_POESY SPEAKS.
_) A body of beauty is mine.
O poet, moulder of me, Withhold not the breath divine, The soul of truth that makes free.
Fair form in repose for a day (The body of beauty of me) With the pulse-beats of life all away, Is well, for beauty and thee.
Yet give to me life all aglow,-- Not a demon of darkness to blight, But a love-lit soul pure as snow,-- Beckon me an angel of light.
A body of beauty is mine.
O poet, moulder of me, Inbreathe with breathings divine, Or body alone let it be.
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_Poesy Speaks_ ix At Minas Basin 15 The Rain Cloud 16 The Rose 17 A Willow at Grand Pré 18 The Bowing Dyke 19 Love's Immanence 20 Mystery 21 The Night-Fisher 22 A Deep-Sea Shell 23 A Red Sunrise 24 The Opal Fires are Gone 25 The Cumulus Cloud 26 Sea Fog 27 Partridge Island 28 Tennyson Rock 29 Of Beauty 30 The Undertow 31 Glooscap 32 Silas Tertius Rand 33 The Tireless Sea 34 The Veiled Presence 35 Resistless Fate 36 The Sea Undine 37 To Emeline 38 The Cirrus Cloud 39 Day and Night 40 Under the Beeches 41 The Nightingale 42 The Loon 43 Hepaticas 44 In the Mayflower Copse 45 June 46 An Inland Spruce 47 The Ghost Flower 48 Annapolis Basin 49 In Autumn's Dreamy Ear 50 Victor is He!
51 McMaster University 52 Conduct 53 International Arbitration 54 The House of God 55 Ben Nachmani 56 Renewal 57 The Christ 58 Revelation 58 Light at Eventide 59 Ben Shalom 59 Banishment 60 Now are the Bridals of the Leafy Wood 60 May's Fairy Tale 61 My Robin 67 Elissa 69 The Humming-Bird 71 The Hepatica 73 The White Rose.
--(At ----'s Grave) 75 The War Hercules 77 In the Cool of the Day 79 Beauty 82 The Dragonfly 84 Deathless 90 A Dream 93 Nature 96 "I Am" 99 The Glad Golden Year 102 Tetrapla 105 Fairy Glen 107 In City Streets 109 Bay of Fundy 112 At the Look-off.
--(Partridge Island) 116 The Stormy Petrel 120 Oblivion 122 Sea Music 126 Summer Fog 130 The Arethusa 132 Dian and Fundy.
--(Designs for a Time-Piece) 134 The Old Fisher's Song 136 Nora Lee 144 To W 150 Marie Depure 157 "By the Love."
--An Easter Idyll 161 _Notes_ 171
