(2 August 1862 – 19 December 1947 / Ottawa, Ontario)

poet Duncan Campbell Scott
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Poems of Duncan Campbell Scott

1. A Legend Of Christ's Nativity 4/19/2010
2. A Love Song 4/19/2010
3. Afterwards 1/3/2003
4. An Impromptu 4/19/2010
5. Angel 4/19/2010
6. Angelus 1/3/2003
7. At Sea 4/19/2010
8. At the Cedars 1/3/2003
9. At The Gill-Nets 4/19/2010
10. At William Maclennan's Grave 4/19/2010
11. Avis 1/3/2003
12. By A Child's Bed 4/19/2010
13. Christmas Folk-Song 4/19/2010
14. Dream Voyageurs 4/19/2010
15. Ecstasy 4/19/2010
16. Elizabeth Speaks 4/19/2010
17. Enigma 1/3/2003
18. Fantasia 4/19/2010
19. Feuilles D'Automne 4/19/2010
20. Fragment Of An Ode To Canada 4/19/2010

Permanence

Set within a desert lone,
Circled by an arid sea,
Stands a figure carved in stone,
Where a fountain used to be.

Two abraded, pleading hands
Held below a shapeless mouth,
Human-like the fragment stands,
Tortured by perpetual drouth.

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