Songs and Sonnets (Coleman)

by Helena Jane Coleman

Songs
and
Sonnets


Helena
Coleman

Published under the Auspices of the Tennyson Club of Toronto

TORONTO
WILLIAM BRIGGS
1906

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Entered according to Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year one thousand nine hundred and six, by William Briggs, at the Department of Agriculture.

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To
A. S. R.

Within my garden, on the southern side,
Where warm and strong the sun's battalions fall,
The lilies grow superbly white and tall,
The mignonette and phlox spread far and wide;
The roses there are my perpetual pride,
The ivy riots laughing up the wall,
And all my flower-loves, both great and small,
A daily feast of loveliness provide.

And deep within the garden of my heart,
Upon that side where thou art wont to shine—
And something of thy sweetness to impart—
There sprang these little wandering songs of mine;
I know not if they show thee what thou art,
But any worthiness they have is thine.

CONTENTS

 

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Songs—		Page
⁠	Indian Summer	13
	Postponement	16
	Exiled	18
	Forest Tragedy	20
	Comrades	22
	When Orchards Bloom	24
	Thy Part	26
	Maturity	28
	On the Trail	29
	O Summer Days	32
	Give Me No Pity	33
	Voices of the Storm	35
	Returning	37
	Our Common Brotherhood	38
	I am Content with Canada	40
	A Thousand Joys Remain	42
	Mother-born	44
	Masqueraders	45
	Whither?	47
	In the Garden	50
	Caught up on Wings	51
	Invocation	53
	Candle-flame	54
	The Distant Goal	55
	My Roses	57
	Love's Higher Way	59
	The Seed	61
	But They Remember Not	63
	Through the Silence	65
	Conquest	66
	Love's Seasons	68
	Confidence	69
	The Guardians of the Place	70
	To a Bluebell	72
	Inaction	74
	The Voices of Our Day	75
	Gifts	76
	Since Reading Maeterlinck	78
	Recall	80
	Each Hath His Own	82
	Not on a Chosen Day	83
	The Soul Behind	84
	Neighbors	85
	Crimson Buds are on the Maple	86
	Prairie Winds	88
	Lullaby	92
	Achievement	93
	When Autumn Comes	95​
	Analogy	96
	Night Among the Thousand Islands	98
	Among the Pines	100
	Opportunity	102
	Alien	104
	September Comes Again	106
	No Grief for Me	108
	The Open Gate	110
Sonnets—
	More Lovely Grows the Earth	115
	In October	116
	Among the Mountains	117
	At Sunset	118
	The Prospector	119
	As Day Begins to Wane	120
	Question Not	121
	Monotony	122
	A Prayer	123
	Millet's Angelus	124
	As One Embarking	125
	Enlargement	126
	On Silent Battle-fields	127
	The Reconciler	128
	The Warden	129
	Dawn	130
	The Sense of Mystery	131
	Winter Wheat	192
	When Thou Art Distant	133
	The Temple	134
	Bondage	135
	Night	136
	At Parting	137
	Peniel	138
	With Passing Years	139
	Sanctuary	140
	Day and Night	141
	Across the Deep	142
	Beyond the Violet Rays	143
	Make Friends with Happiness	144
	Masked	145
	Not by Nature's Door	146
	In the Dark	147
	Though Bound to Earth	148
	On Such a Night as This	149
	The Evening Hour	150
	Certitude	151
	On Mount Pilatus	152
	Since Knowing You	153
	Vanished Years	154
	The Pelican	155
	Absence	156
	Kings' Palaces	157
	As Parsifal of Old	158

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