Canada / Pauline Johnson

Canada

Crown of her, young Vancouver; crest of her, old Quebec;
Atlantic and far Pacific sweeping her, keel to deck.
North of her, ice and arctics; southward a rival’s stealth;
Aloft, her Empire’s pennant; below, her nation’s wealth.
Daughter of men and markets, bearing within her hold,
Appraised at highest value, cargoes of grain and gold.

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E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) (1861-1913)
from Flint and Feather, 1912

[Poem is in the public domain worldwide]

Pauline Johnson biography

Mack Male, Canada Day Fireworks, 2013. CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons.

July's featured poem

The Penny Blog's featured poem for July 2024:

When Summer Comes, by Sophia Almon Hensley

When summer comes, and when o’er hill and lea

The sun’s strong wooing glow hath patiently

Shed o’er the earth long days his golden dower

[...]

https://gdancesbetty.blogspot.com/2012/07/when-summer-comes.html

Penny's Top 20 / June 2024

                                     

Penny's Top 20

The most-visited poems on  The Penny Blog in June 2024:

  1.  Logos, George J. Dance

  2.  June Rain, Richard Aldington

  3.  Esthetique du Mal, Wallace Stevens

  4.  A Day in June, James Russell Lowell

  5.  Lines to My Father, Countee Cullen

  6.  Early Summer, Ellwood Roberts
  7.  A June Day, Philip Bourke Marston

  8.  June, Edwin Arnold
  9.  Skating, William Wordsworth

10.  The Red Wheelbarrow, William Carlos Williams

11.  A Light exists in Spring, Emily Dickinson
12.  A Dream in November, Edmund Gosse

13.  Bird Cage, Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau

14.  Large Red Man Reading, Wallace Stevens
15.  The Snow is Deep on the Ground, Kenneth Patchen

16.  My Father, Ann Taylor

17.  A Madrigal, Isidore C. Ascher

18.  February, George J. Dance
19.  Moonlight Alert, Yvor Winters

20. Heat, Archibald Lampman

Source: Blogger, "Stats"