Canadian Melodies and Poems. George E. Merkley

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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      EAN 4064066152642

      Table of Contents

       PREFACE.

       CORRECTIONS.

       Prelude.

       MELODIES

       The Rainbow.

       In the Land of the Sun.

       The Sailor’s Bride.

       The Broken Mirror.

       The Chieftain’s Lament.

       Shadow-Land. (Imitated from the Japanese.)

       An Ode.

       The Grave of a United Empire Loyalist.

       O’er Crag and O’er Dune.

       They But Dream Who Believe.

       The Magic Ring. [C]

       An Autumnal Dirge.

       Songs Unsung.

       Compages Ossium. (Lines composed while looking into an opened grave from my study window.)

       Mystics.

       Eyes That Are Used to Weeping.

       Oh, Thou Hast Wept Long.

       Transition.

       The Mystery of the Sea.

       Faith.

       A Lament. (From an unpublished Drama written in early life.)

       Ember Pictures.

       POEMS

       A Legend of Dead Man’s Lake.

       The Vigil. [E] (A Romaunt of the late Rebellion in the U.S.A.)

       A Fable in Two Cantos.

       Impromptu. (Suggested on seeing a vain lady gazing at herself in a mirror.)

       TRANSLATIONS

       Horace; Ode ix., Book iii.

       Horace, Ode xvi., Book iii.

       Homeric Garlands [F]

       The Dying Slave [G] (From the introduction to a Greek prize ode.)

       The Lorelei. (From the German of Heine.)

       The Two Streams. (Adapted from the Italian of Metastasio.) Quella onda che ruina.