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The Habitant and Other French-Canadian Poems

Enriched edition. Capturing the essence of French-Canadian culture and traditions in poetic verses

by William Henry Drummond, Brooke Shepherd ...

In "The Habitant and Other French-Canadian Poems," William Henry Drummond intricately weaves the vivid tapestry of rural life in Quebec through his unique literary lens. Written in a lyrical style imbued with humor and earthy imagery, the poems celebrate the resilience of the French-Canadian spirit while capturing the distinctive cadence of Quebecois dialect. Drummond's work, emerging from the ... Read more

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In "The Habitant and Other French-Canadian Poems," William Henry Drummond intricately weaves the vivid tapestry of rural life in Quebec through his unique literary lens. Written in a lyrical style imbued with humor and earthy imagery, the poems celebrate the resilience of the French-Canadian spirit while capturing the distinctive cadence of Quebecois dialect. Drummond's work, emerging from the
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The Ultimate Christmas Collection

150+ authors & 400+ Christmas Novels, Stories, Poems, Carols & Legends

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If you were looking for the definitive Christmas anthology, consider yourself lucky, because you just found it! This book is everything you want Christmas to be — loving, warm and celebratory. Timeless and adorable, beautifully designed, "The Big Book of Christmas" is a great big stocky book — stuffed with novels, novellas, short stories, poems, carols and songs. Inside you'll find: · Novels,
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The Voyageur and Other Poems

by William Henry Drummond ...

Narrated by MICHAEL AI ...

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1 hour 59 min

The Voyageur and Other Poems by William Henry Drummond is a collection of poems that celebrate the life and culture of the voyageurs, the French-Canadian fur traders who explored and mapped much of North America in the 18th and 19th centuries. Drummond, who was born in Ireland but raised in Canada, was deeply fascinated by the voyageurs. He spent many years living among them and learning about ... Read more

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The Voyageur and Other Poems by William Henry Drummond is a collection of poems that celebrate the life and culture of the voyageurs, the French-Canadian fur traders who explored and mapped much of North America in the 18th and 19th centuries. Drummond, who was born in Ireland but raised in Canada, was deeply fascinated by the voyageurs. He spent many years living among them and learning about
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TIS THE SEASON TO BE JOLLY - Christmas Carols & Poems

A Timeless Anthology of Sacred Carols, Winter Verse, Childhood Wonder, and Holiday Cheer

by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Robert Louis Stevenson, James Montgomery, Sir Walter Scott, Clement Clarke Moore, William Wordsworth, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Rudyard Kipling, John Milton, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas Hardy, Emily Dickinson, William Butler Yeats, William Makepeace Thackeray, Charles Kingsley, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, C. W. Stubbs, William Topaz McGonagall, Eugene Field, Carolyn Wells, Phillips Brooks, James Russell Lowell, Alfred Domett, Reginald Heber, Dinah Maria Mulock, Margaret Deland, Nora A. Smith, Isaac Watts, Robert Herrick, Edmund Hamilton Sears, Ben Jonson, Edmund Bolton, William Drummond, Robert Southwell, C.S. Stone, Frances Ridley Havergal, William Morris, William Shakespeare, Charles Mackay, Harriet F. Blodgett, Eliza Cook, George Wither, Martin Luther, Christian Burke, Andrew Lang, Emily Huntington Miller, Cyril Winterbotham, Robert Browning ...

TIS THE SEASON TO BE JOLLY—Christmas Carols & Poems gathers sacred hymnody, traditional carols, devotional lyrics, comic verse, children's poetry, and reflective seasonal meditations into a capacious literary portrait of Christmas. Spanning Renaissance song, Romantic reverie, Victorian domesticity, and later popular verse, the volume moves between Nativity solemnity, winter landscape, communal ... Read more

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TIS THE SEASON TO BE JOLLY—Christmas Carols & Poems gathers sacred hymnody, traditional carols, devotional lyrics, comic verse, children's poetry, and reflective seasonal meditations into a capacious literary portrait of Christmas. Spanning Renaissance song, Romantic reverie, Victorian domesticity, and later popular verse, the volume moves between Nativity solemnity, winter landscape, communal
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The Habitant and Other French-Canadian Poems

by William Henry Drummond ...

On me demande, pour ce charmant volume, un mot de préface en français; le voici: Quand, en 1863, je publiai mon premier recueil de poésies—écrites au collège, pour la plupart,—le grand poète américain Longfellow eut la flatteuse bienveillance de m'appeler The pathfinder of a new land of song. Avec mille fois plus de raison puis-je aujourd'hui passer le compliment à mon sympathique confrère et ami, ... Read more

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On me demande, pour ce charmant volume, un mot de préface en français; le voici: Quand, en 1863, je publiai mon premier recueil de poésies—écrites au collège, pour la plupart,—le grand poète américain Longfellow eut la flatteuse bienveillance de m'appeler The pathfinder of a new land of song. Avec mille fois plus de raison puis-je aujourd'hui passer le compliment à mon sympathique confrère et ami,
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Phil-O-Rum's Canoe and Madeleine Vercheres

by William Henry Drummond ...

PREFACIO Este reporte describe los efectos de las bombas atómicas que bombardearon las ciudades de Hiroshima y Nagasaki el 6 y el 9 de agosto de 1945, respectivamente. Resume toda la información que está disponible sobre daño hecho a estructuras, heridas a personal, consecuencias morales, etcétera, que puede ser dado al público sin perjudicar la seguridad de los Estados Unidos. Este reporte ha ... Read more

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PREFACIO Este reporte describe los efectos de las bombas atómicas que bombardearon las ciudades de Hiroshima y Nagasaki el 6 y el 9 de agosto de 1945, respectivamente. Resume toda la información que está disponible sobre daño hecho a estructuras, heridas a personal, consecuencias morales, etcétera, que puede ser dado al público sin perjudicar la seguridad de los Estados Unidos. Este reporte ha
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The Voyageur and Other Poems

by William Henry Drummond ...

Dere's somet'ing stirrin' ma blood tonight, On de night of de young new year, Wile de camp is warm an' de fire is bright, An' de bottle is close at han'—Out on de reever de nort' win' blow, Down on de valley is pile de snow, But w'at do we care so long we know We 're safe on de log cabane? Drink to de healt' of your wife an' girl, Anoder wan for your frien', Den geev' me a chance, for on all de ... Read more

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Dere's somet'ing stirrin' ma blood tonight, On de night of de young new year, Wile de camp is warm an' de fire is bright, An' de bottle is close at han'—Out on de reever de nort' win' blow, Down on de valley is pile de snow, But w'at do we care so long we know We 're safe on de log cabane? Drink to de healt' of your wife an' girl, Anoder wan for your frien', Den geev' me a chance, for on all de
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Prison Truth

The Story of the San Quentin News

by William J. Drummond ...

San Quentin State Prison, California’s oldest prison and the nation’s largest, is notorious for once holding America’s most dangerous prisoners. But in 2008, the Bastille-by-the-Bay became a beacon for rehabilitation through the prisoner-run newspaper the San Quentin News.Prison Truth tells the story of how prisoners, many serving life terms, transformed the prison climate from what Johnny Cash ... Read more

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San Quentin State Prison, California’s oldest prison and the nation’s largest, is notorious for once holding America’s most dangerous prisoners. But in 2008, the Bastille-by-the-Bay became a beacon for rehabilitation through the prisoner-run newspaper the San Quentin News.Prison Truth tells the story of how prisoners, many serving life terms, transformed the prison climate from what Johnny Cash
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Dunmore's War

The Last Conflict of America’s Colonial Era

by Glenn F. Williams ...

Narrated by David Drummond ...

Unabridged

14 hours 33 min

Known to history as "Dunmore's War," the 1774 campaign against a Shawnee-led Indian confederacy in the Ohio Country marked the final time an American colonial militia took to the field in His Majesty's service and under royal command. Led by John Murray, the fourth Earl of Dunmore and royal governor of Virginia, a force of colonials including George Rogers Clark, Daniel Morgan, Michael Cresap, ... Read more

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Known to history as "Dunmore's War," the 1774 campaign against a Shawnee-led Indian confederacy in the Ohio Country marked the final time an American colonial militia took to the field in His Majesty's service and under royal command. Led by John Murray, the fourth Earl of Dunmore and royal governor of Virginia, a force of colonials including George Rogers Clark, Daniel Morgan, Michael Cresap,
... Read more
Delphi Complete Works of William Drummond of Hawthornden (Illustrated)

by William Drummond, Delphi Classics ...

Series Book 115 - Delphi Poets Series
William Drummond of Hawthornden was the first notable poet in Scotland to write in English, as well as the first to use the canzone, a medieval Italian metrical form in English verse. He was a cultured and detached man of means, who became close friends with the poet Michael Drayton and the playwright Ben Jonson. He also wrote one of the most celebrated prose essays of the seventeenth century, ‘A ... Read more

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William Drummond of Hawthornden was the first notable poet in Scotland to write in English, as well as the first to use the canzone, a medieval Italian metrical form in English verse. He was a cultured and detached man of means, who became close friends with the poet Michael Drayton and the playwright Ben Jonson. He also wrote one of the most celebrated prose essays of the seventeenth century, ‘A
... Read more
Dr. W.H. Drummond's Complete Poems

by William Henry Drummond ...

This volume contains all the poems previously published in separate volumes under the following titles: The Habitant; Johnnie Courteau; The Voyageur; The Great Fight, and comprises the complete collected poems of William Henry Drummond. To these are added a memorial poem and introductions by Neil Munro and Louis Fréchette. ... Read more

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This volume contains all the poems previously published in separate volumes under the following titles: The Habitant; Johnnie Courteau; The Voyageur; The Great Fight, and comprises the complete collected poems of William Henry Drummond. To these are added a memorial poem and introductions by Neil Munro and Louis Fréchette.
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The Habitant and Other French-Canadian Poems

by William Henry Drummond ...

In "The Habitant and Other French-Canadian Poems," William Henry Drummond masterfully captures the essence of rural French-Canadian life through vivid imagery and authentic dialect. Written in the late 19th century, Drummond's poetry explores themes of nature, community, and identity, reflecting the social and cultural milieu of French Canadians during a period of increasing industrialization. His ... Read more

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In "The Habitant and Other French-Canadian Poems," William Henry Drummond masterfully captures the essence of rural French-Canadian life through vivid imagery and authentic dialect. Written in the late 19th century, Drummond's poetry explores themes of nature, community, and identity, reflecting the social and cultural milieu of French Canadians during a period of increasing industrialization. His
... Read more

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