Poems and Essays
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Poems and Essays

  1. 376 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Poems and Essays

About this book

This volume, containing a selection of the poetry and prose of Joseph Howe, presents various aspects of a fascinating man who few Canadian know as other than the 'tribune of Nova Scotia' and a political giant of colonial times.Yet Howe was also a writer, and a good one.

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Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. Introduction
  3. Bibliographical Note
  4. Introduction
  5. Acadia
  6. Sable Island
  7. The Stewiacke
  8. Melville Island
  9. The Flag Of Old England
  10. Our Fathers
  11. Song For The 8th June
  12. The Streams
  13. Thanksgiving Hymn
  14. My Native Pines
  15. Fame
  16. La Tribune
  17. Home
  18. To The Queen
  19. Making Land
  20. The Rhine
  21. Coming Home
  22. Saturday Night At Sea
  23. The Stormy Petrel
  24. The Coaster
  25. The Song Of The Micmac
  26. The Wild Cherry Tree
  27. The Micmac
  28. My Father
  29. Glide Merrily On My Little Skiff
  30. To My Wife
  31. To My Sister Jane
  32. To Susan Ann
  33. Oh think not that my heart can e'er
  34. Nay, chide me not
  35. The Beach
  36. Tho' Time may steal the roseate blush
  37. Song
  38. The Birth Day
  39. The Wedding Day
  40. To Ellen
  41. A Love Song
  42. The Unseen Babe
  43. To Jane
  44. To Sophia
  45. To a Lady
  46. To M. J. K.
  47. To Mary
  48. To Ann
  49. Oh! It would more than transport be
  50. Lines written in an Album
  51. To Valentine
  52. Farewell my Brother
  53. Farewell
  54. To Sarah
  55. The Birth-day
  56. Written in a Bible
  57. To Woman
  58. What is a Friend?
  59. The Promise
  60. The Three Flowers
  61. To Mrs. Norton
  62. To Fancy
  63. The Blue Nose
  64. Friendship's Garden
  65. Tears
  66. The Travellers
  67. To the Moose
  68. The Talbots
  69. Cornelia!s Answer
  70. Cincinnatus
  71. To the Mayflower
  72. To the Linnet
  73. To the Fire-fly
  74. The Deserted Nest
  75. To a Rose
  76. The Wreath
  77. To the Town Clock
  78. A Toast
  79. The Fancy Ball No I
  80. The Fancy Ball No 2
  81. Tom's Apology
  82. Once more I put my Bonnet on
  83. A New Member
  84. Epigrams
  85. Essays
  86. Shakspeare Oration
  87. Lecture on Eloquence
  88. Lecture on the Moral Influence of Woman
  89. Address at the Howe Family Gathering
  90. The Locksmith of Philadelphia, (a tale)
  91. Address
  92. Index