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Orpheus and Other Poems

This is a volume of poetry by the rather obscure Canadian poet Edward Burrough Brownlow, published posthumously after his death in 1896. The poems in this volume have varied subjects, reflecting the interests of the poet. - Summary by Carolin (2 hr 8 min)

Chapters

Orpheus

Dead Summer

Autumn

The Sky-Lark

Constancy

A Ballade of the Street

Pantoum - The Blush

The Rondeau

Winter

Purpose

Sonnet

A Roman Girl’s Prayer

A Ballade of Boccaccio

Release

The Whip-Poor-Will

The Death of the Laureate

The Sonnet

The Poet

In Boetia

Love-Land

The Legends and Lilies of France

Hawthorn Spray

If I were King

World, Wind, Leaves and Snow

Rose

A Sea Dream

The Black Knight

The Golden Line

Sweet of my Life

Hastings

Shelley

Morning

Love’s Voice

Lilies and Poppies

To Bacchus

Love’s Whispers

Work

Where Blue-bells nod

Loss and Gain

Trio

De Senectute

The Coming of Summer

Rondel

The Abbey Walls

The Violet

La Farfalla

Cowper

Rain

Hymn

The Great Play