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    Lyrics Of Earth & Other Poems
    Lyrics Of Earth & Other Poems
    Lyrics Of Earth & Other Poems
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    Lyrics Of Earth & Other Poems

    By Archibald Lampman

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    Archibald Lampman was born on November 17th 1861 at Morpeth, Ontario in Canada. Perhaps the finest Canadian Poet of his time he is classed as a Confederation Poet. A lover of camping it inspired much of his verse and helped him to become known as ‘The Canadian Keats’. Most of his poems are about the Countryside and the natural world. He wrote in excess of 300 poems and all reveal and revel in his observations of life and landscape. But his life was destined to be cut short. His health deteriorated, due in part to the death of his second son and his earlier problems caused by rheumatic fever. On February 10th, 1899 Archibald Lampman died of a weak heart, an after-effect of his childhood rheumatic fever in Ottawa at the age of only 37. He is buried at Beechwood Cemetery, in Ottawa, His grave is marked by a single word on his headstone "Lampman.". A nearby plaque cites his poem "In November": The hills grow wintry white, and bleak winds moan About the naked uplands. I alone Am neither sad, nor shelterless, nor gray Wrapped round with thought, content to watch and dream. In this volume, the third of three, we include Lyrics Of Earth and many other favourites.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherCopyright Group
    Release dateOct 25, 2013
    ISBN9781783945351
    Lyrics Of Earth & Other Poems

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      Lyrics Of Earth & Other Poems - Archibald Lampman

      Lyrics Of Earth by Archibald Lampman

      Archibald Lampman was born on November 17th 1861 at Morpeth, Ontario in Canada.  Perhaps the finest Canadian Poet of his time he is classed as a Confederation Poet.

      When he was 6 the family moved to Gore's Landing on Rice Lake, Ontario, where young Archie started school. In 1868 he contracted rheumatic fever, which left him lame for many years and with a permanently weakened heart.

      He attended Trinity College School in Port Hope, Ontario, and then to Trinity College in Toronto, Ontario and graduated in 1882.  Whilst there he published many poems in the literary journal of Victoria College. 

      After attempting a career as a teacher he became a clerk in the Post Office Department in Ottawa, a position he held for the rest of his life.

      On Sep. 3, 1887, Arhibald married Maude Emma Playter. "They had three children; Natalie Charlotte in 1892. Arnold Gesner in May 1894, but he was only to survive a few months and in 1898 Archibald Otto, was born.

      A lover of camping it inspired much of his verse and helped him to become known as ‘The Canadian Keats’.   Most of his poems are about the Countryside and the natural world.  He wrote in excess of 300 poems and all reveal and revel in his observations of life and landscape.

      But his life was destined to be cut short. His health deteriorated, due in part to the death of his second son and his earlier problems caused by rheumatic fever.

      On February 10th, 1899 Archibald Lampman died of a weak heart, an after-effect of his childhood rheumatic fever in Ottawa at the age of only 37.

      He is buried at Beechwood Cemetery, in Ottawa, His grave is marked by a single word on his headstone  Lampman.. A nearby plaque cites his poem In November:

      The hills grow wintry white, and bleak winds moan

      About the naked uplands. I alone

      Am neither sad, nor shelterless, nor gray

      Wrapped round with thought, content to watch and dream.

      Index Of Poems

      The Sweetness of Life       

      God-speed to the Snow

      April in the Hills          

      Forest Moods                

      The Return of the Year  

      Favorites of Pan           

      The Meadow                

      In May                     

      Life and Nature            

      With the Night             

      June                      

      Distance                   

      The Bird and the Hour      

      After Rain                 

      Cloud-break                

      The Moon-path             

      Comfort of the Fields     

      At the Ferry               

      September                

      A Re-assurance            

      The Poet's Possession   

      An Autumn Landscape        

      In November                

      By an Autumn Stream   

      Snowbirds                

      Snow                       

      Sunset                     

      Winter-store               

      The Sun Cup                

      TO MY MOTHER

      Mother, to whose valiant will,

      Battling long ago,

      What the heaping years fulfil,

      Light and song, I owe;

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