Wayside Gleams

by Laura Goodman Salverson

78 chapters1h 44mEnglish1925

About this book

Laura Goodman Salverson was a Canadian author of Icelandic descent. Her poems pay tribute to both aspects of her heritage, with offerings like "For Canada", "Iceland" and "Childhood's Friend" in this collection. (Summary by Krista Zaleski)

Chapters (77)

1Creation of the Birds

2To a Wild Canary

3Somewhere in Fields of France

4Merry Spring

5For Canada

125

6Asphodel Fields

7The Comforter

8Hymn of Night

9The Meadow

10Life

11And This My Love

12Arboreal Homily

105

13The Disinherited Conqueror

14Fragment

15Would the Night were Fleeting

16Butterflies

17Calla Lily

18Cui Bono?

19Little Pilgrims of the Deep

20Where Madonna Lilies Grow

21On Demeter’s Breast

22Love’s Way

23Lament

24In the Garden of My Heart

25Mother

26To the Canadian Nature Poet, Bliss Carman

27Pastoral Romance

28In the Glade

29Pioneers

30In the Mist

31Shadows

32Morning Call

33In a Grove

154

34Fragment

35Infinity

36On Wishes

37Fragment

38Fantasy

39The Inner Light

40Halls of Dreams

145

41Voices of the Sea

42Sea Song

43Baby’s Dream

122

44Love’s Path

111

45To One Departed

46In Loving Memory of Haldora Olson

47If a Maid be Fair

48Baby’s Eyes

49Childhood’s Friend

115

50The Courtship of the Sun

137

51Windows of Mystery

52We Thank Thee Lord

53Chant of the Deep

54Consider the Sun

55To the Evening Star

56Ad Finem

57Heritage

58Stray Thoughts

59This is the Age of Reason

60Iceland

61The Dying Norseman

62The Question

63Ode Dolorous

64Heart’s Ease

65Consolation

111

66Religion

122

67The Gift

68The Gift Acceptable

69Brothers All

194

70Slumber Song

71My Plea

72Sleep, O Shining Love

73April Rain

74Whither and Away?

75Song of Seasons

76Where Wind the Roads of Arcady?

77Little One and Dearest

Wayside Gleams

About this book

Chapters (77)

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