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Title: Lyrics of Earth

Author: Archibald Lampman

Release Date: July 11, 2007 [EBook #12664]
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LYRICS OF EARTH

BY

ARCHIBALD LAMPMAN

[Illustration]

BOSTON

COPELAND AND DAY

MDCCCXCV

Copyright by Copeland and Day, 1895.

CONTENTS

The Sweetness of Life 5

God-speed to the Snow 7

April in the Hills 8

Forest Moods 9

The Return of the Year 10

Favorites of Pan 11

The Meadow 14

In May 17

Life and Nature 19

With the Night 20

June 21

Distance 24

The Bird and the Hour 25

After Rain 25

Cloud-break 27

The Moon-path 28

Comfort of the Fields 29

At the Ferry 32

September 35

A Re-assurance 38

The Poet's Possession 39

An Autumn Landscape 39

In November 40

By an Autumn Stream 42

Snowbirds 44

Snow 45

Sunset 46

Winter-store 48

The Sun Cup 56

TO MY MOTHER

Mother, to whose valiant will,
Battling long ago,
What the heaping years fulfil,
Light and song, I owe;
Send my little book a-field,
Fronting praise or blame
With the shining flag and shield
Of your name.

THE SWEETNESS OF LIFE

It fell on a day I was happy,
And the winds, the concave sky,
The flowers and the beasts in