Fires of Driftwood
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About This Book
Isabel Ecclestone Mackay (1875-1928) was a Canadian poet, playwright and novelist. She was born in Woodstock, Ontario. She received her education in Ontario and moved to Vancouver along with her husband, Peter J. Mackay, in 1909. There she wrote all her major works. She is the author of several novels, a book of lyrics, and a volume of poems for children. Her play Treasure (1926) won the open, all Canadian I.O.D.E. Contest in 1926.
Chapters (101)
- FIRES OF DRIFTWOOD
- WITH DECORATIONS BY J.E.H. MACDONALD A.R.C.A.
- CONTENTS
- Fires of Driftwood
- When as a Lad
- Laureate
- Out of Babylon
- Last Spring
- Presence
- In an Autumn Garden
- Rose Dolores
- A Pilgrim
- Spring will Come
- Cosmos
- The Secret
- I Watch Swift Pictures
- Fear
- Resurrection
- The Lost Name
- The Happy Traveller
- The Dead Bride
- The Crocus Bed
- The Vision
- The Miracle
- The Homesteader
- Wet Weather
- *The Sleeping Beauty
- Down at the Docks
- Lake Louise
- The Gatekeeper
- The Bridge Builder
- The Prairie School
- Calgary Station
- Vale*
- The Way to Wait
- The Passer-By
- First Love
- Sad One, Must You Weep
- Joseph
- A Christmas Child
- Spring in Nazareth
- Inheritance
- Song of the Sleeper
- The Tyrant
- The Gifts
- The Town Between
- On the Mountain
- The Prophet
- Give Me a Day
- Little Brown Bird
- The Watcher
- Possession
- To Arcady
- The Fields of Even
- I Love My Love
- Spring Awoke To-Day
- In Town
- Summer’s Passing
- The Doom of Ys
- Time’s Garden
- The Coming of Love
- Premonition
- The Child
- Intrusion
- The Sea’s Withholding
- Love Unkind
- Christmas in Heaven
- I Whispered to the Bobolink
- You
- The Mother
- The Vassal
- The Troubadour
- Indian Summer
- The Unchanged
- Indifference
- Last Things
- Callous Cupid
- The Meeting
- The Piper
- Wanderlust
- Gold
- The Materialist
- Tir Nan Og
- The Little Man in Green
- The Enchantress
- The Banshee
- The Witch
- Fairy Singing
- Killed in Action
- Spring Came In
- From the Trenches
- The Reasons
- To-Day
- Memory
- Dream
- Perhaps
- Glamour
- Friendship
- The Returned Man
- Epitaph
- For One Who Went in Spring
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