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Fires of Driftwood By: Isabel Ecclestone Mackay (1875-1928) |
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BY ISABEL ECCLESTONE MACKAY
WITH DECORATIONS BY J.E.H. MACDONALD A.R.C.A. First published by McClelland & Stewart, Limited, Toronto, 1922. The thanks of the author are due to the editors of Ainslee's Magazine,
The American Magazine, The Canadian Magazine, Canadian Home Journal,
The Canadian Bookman, The Forum, The Globe, Harper's Magazine,
The Independent, The Ladies' World, McClure's Magazine, Metropolitan
Magazine, The Reader Magazine, Scribner's Magazine, Saturday Night,
and The Youth's Companion for permission to publish this verse
in its present form.
CONTENTS FIRES OF DRIFTWOOD
WHEN AS A LAD
LAUREATE
OUT OF BABYLON
LAST SPRING
PRESENCE
IN AN AUTUMN GARDEN
ROSE DOLORES
A PILGRIM
SPRING WILL COME
COSMOS
THE SECRET
I WATCH SWIFT PICTURES
FEAR
RESURRECTION
THE LOST NAME
THE HAPPY TRAVELLER
THE DEAD BRIDE
THE CROCUS BED
THE VISION
THE MIRACLE
THE HOMESTEADER
WET WEATHER
THE SLEEPING BEAUTY
DOWN AT THE DOCKS
LAKE LOUISE
THE GATEKEEPER
THE BRIDGE BUILDER
THE PRAIRIE SCHOOL
CALGARY STATION
VALE
THE WAY TO WAIT
THE PASSER BY
FIRST LOVE
SAD ONE, MUST YOU WEEP
JOSEPH
A CHRISTMAS CHILD
SPRING IN NAZARETH
INHERITANCE
SONG OF THE SLEEPER
THE TYRANT
THE GIFTS
THE TOWN BETWEEN
ON THE MOUNTAIN
THE PROPHET
GIVE ME A DAY
LITTLE BROWN BIRD
THE WATCHER
POSSESSION
TO ARCADY
THE FIELDS OF EVEN
I LOVE MY LOVE
SPRING AWOKE TO DAY
IN TOWN
SUMMER'S PASSING
THE DOOM OF YS
TIME'S GARDEN
THE COMING OF LOVE
PREMONITION
THE CHILD
INTRUSION
THE SEA'S WITHHOLDING
LOVE UNKIND
CHRISTMAS IN HEAVEN
I WHISPERED TO THE BOB O LINK
YOU
THE MOTHER
THE VASSAL
THE TROUBADOUR
INDIAN SUMMER
THE UNCHANGED
INDIFFERENCE
LAST THINGS
CALLOUS CUPID
THE MEETING
THE PIPER
WANDERLUST
GOLD
THE MATERIALIST
TIR NAN OG
THE LITTLE MAN IN GREEN
THE ENCHANTRESS
THE BANSHEE
THE WITCH
FAIRY SINGING
KILLED IN ACTION
SPRING CAME IN
FROM THE TRENCHES
THE REASONS
TO DAY
MEMORY
DREAM
PERHAPS
GLAMOUR
FRIENDSHIP
THE RETURNED MAN
EPITAPH
FOR ONE WHO WENT IN SPRING
Fires of Driftwood
ON what long tides
Do you drift to my fire,
You waifs of strange waters?
From what far seas,
What murmurous sands,
What desolate beaches
Flotsam of those glories that were ships! I gather you,
Bitter with salt,
Sun bleached, rock scarred, moon harried,
Fuel for my fire. You are Pride's end.
Through all to morrows you are yesterday.
You are waste,
You are ruin,
For where is that which once you were? I gather you.
See! I set free the fire within you
You awake in thin flame!
Tremulous, mistlike, your soul aspires,
Blue, beautiful,
Up and up to the clouds which are its kindred!
What is left is nothing
Ashes blown along the shore!
When as a Lad
WHEN, as a lad, at break of day
I watched the fishers sail away,
My thoughts, like flocking birds, would follow
Across the curving sky's blue hollow,
And on and on
Into the very heart of dawn! For long I searched the world ah, me!
I searched the sky, I searched the sea,
With much of useless grief and rueing
Those winged thoughts of mine pursuing
So dear were they,
So lovely and so far away! I seek them still and always must
Until my laggard heart is dust
And I am free to follow, follow,
Across the curving sky's blue hollow,
Those thoughts too fleet
For any save the soul's swift feet!
Laureate
DEATH met a little child who cried
For a bright star which earth denied,
And Death, so sympathetic, kissed it,
Saying: "With me
All bright things be!"
And only the child's mother missed it. Death met a maiden on the brae,
Her eyes held dreams life would betray,
And gallant Death was greatly taken
"Leave," whispered he,
"Your dream with me
And I will see you never waken." Death met an old man in a lane;
So gnarled was he and full of pain
That kindly Death was struck with pity
"Come you with me,
Old man," said he,
"I'll set you down in a fair city... Continue reading book >>
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