At Minas Basin, and Other Poems

"On the watery floor Of this sibilant lake, I lived in the twilight dim. 'There's a world of Day,' Some pled, 'a world Of ether and wings athrob Close over our head.' 'It's a dr...

And breasting an old path to the carved shore Where fell at ebb the sea-green billows clear,-- A path o'ertangled thick with alder hung With tags that take the rich brown Vandyk...

'Neath northern skies thou hid'st thy punctual nest By crystal waters in their lonely play, Meeting the challenge with which instant day And night thy chariness and courage test...

About the buried feet of Blomidon, Red-breasted sphinx with crown of grey and green, The tides of Minas swirl,--their veilëd queen Fleet-oared from far by galleys of the sun. Th...