
A richly woven collection of verse invites listeners into a world where ordinary moments shimmer with the extraordinary. From the gentle lull of “Hyacinth” in a quiet arbor to the solemn procession of a young king through an enchanted wood, each poem feels like a fragment of a larger, dream‑filled tapestry. The language is vivid yet tender, pairing delicate images of green apples and moonlit gardens with deeper currents of loss and wonder.
The book moves fluidly between forms—concise hokku, lyrical sketches, and narrative mini‑epics—offering a varied rhythm that keeps the ear eager. Themes of nature, memory, and fleeting beauty recur, while playful voices of bakers, butchers, and candlemakers ground the ethereal in everyday life. A recurring motif of cloaks and woven threads suggests that every line is both a cover and a revelation.
Listening feels like wandering through a gallery of whispered scenes, each piece a soft, shimmering thread that beckons you to linger, reflect, and let imagination stitch its own patterns across the verses.
Language
en
Duration
~52 minutes (50K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Original publisher
Canada: The MacMillan Company of Canada, Limited, 1924.
Credits
Charlene Taylor, Krista Zaleski and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Release date
2023-03-14
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
Subjects
1882–1944
A Canadian poet with an early modernist streak, she published vivid, image-rich verse that helped bring new poetic styles into Canadian writing. Though less widely known today, her work has drawn renewed interest for its imaginative language and place in literary history.
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