 | Frank elgin Wetherell - Canadian poetry - 1893 - 230 pages
...wind moans to the sea ; And down the sluices of the dawn A shadow drifts alee. Low Tide on Grand-Pre. The sun goes down, and over all These barren reaches...at dusk We lifted dripping blade to drift, Through twilight scented fine like musk, Where night and gloom awhile uplift, Nor sunder soul and soul adrift.... | |
 | Bliss Carman - American poetry - 1897 - 264 pages
...wAFOOT, IOI ^WAYFARING, 106 ^HE END OF THE TRAIL, 115 THE VAGABONDS, 123 WHITHER, 130 LOW TIDE ON GRAND THE sun goes down, and over all These barren reaches...and in the gleam We freed our birch upon the stream. 16 There down along the elms at dusk We •lifted dripping blade to drift, Through twilight scented... | |
 | Scotland - 1897 - 462 pages
...may follow Bliss Carman to the historic meadows of the Grand Pre in the ' Sweet Acadian Land ' : ' Was it a year or lives ago We took the grasses in...and in the gleam We freed our birch upon the stream. P ' There down along the elms at dusk We lifted dripping blade to drift, Through twilight scented fine... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 578 pages
...in 1889, and it was not until about 1886 that he began to fit words together into lines. DRIFTING. The while the river at our feet — A drowsy inland...the after-heat Made running gold, and in the gleam \\'e freed our birch upon the stream. There, down along the elms at dusk, We lifted dripping blade... | |
 | Bliss Carman - Grand Pré - 1899 - 142 pages
...VAGABONDS, 123 WHITHER, 130 SMC Sfiritut haeres sit patriae quae tristia nescit LOW TIDE ON GRAND PRE THE sun goes down, and over all These barren reaches...at dusk We lifted dripping blade to drift, Through twilight scented fine like musk, Where night and gloom awhile uplift, Nor sunder soul and soul adrift.... | |
 | American poetry - 1899 - 260 pages
...star and pale, Shines dimly through its cloudy veil ! JOHN GREENLEAF WHIITIER. Low Tide on Grand-Pre THE sun goes down, and over all These barren reaches...at dusk, We lifted dripping blade to drift, Through twilight scented fine like musk, Where night and gloom awhile uplift, Nor sunder soul and soul adrift.... | |
 | Theodore Harding Rand - Canadian poetry - 1900 - 446 pages
...gaze like Joshua's moon shall stand, Not working any work or will, BLISS CARMAN LOW TIDE ON GRAND PR& THE sun goes down, and over all These barren reaches...the elms at dusk We lifted dripping blade to drift, And that we took into our hands Spirit of life or subtler thing — Breathed on us there, and loosed... | |
 | Great Britain - 1900 - 572 pages
...hands ? The while the river at our feet A drowsy inland meadow stream, At set of sun the after heat Made running gold, and in the gleam We freed our birch...at dusk We lifted dripping blade to drift, Through twilight scented fine like musk, Where night and gloom awhile uplift, Nor sunder soul and soul adrift.... | |
 | Bahamas - 1900 - 652 pages
...hands ? The while the river at our feet A drowsy inland meadow stream, At set of sun the after heat Made running gold, and in the gleam We freed our birch...at dusk We lifted dripping blade to drift, Through twilight scented fine like musk, Where night and gloom awhile uplift, Nor sunder soul and soul adrift.... | |
 | 1900 - 780 pages
...The while the river at our feet — A drowsy inland meadow stream — At set of sun the after heat Made running gold, and in the gleam We freed our birch...There down along the elms at dusk We lifted dripping blades to drift, Through twilight scented fine like musk, Where night and gloom awhile uplift, Nor... | |
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Athrough the fields of Acadie Goes wandering, as if to know Why one beloved face should be So long from home and Acadie. Was it a year or lives ago We took the grasses in our hands, And caught the summer flying low Over the waving meadow lands. And held... 
