Isabella Valancy Crawford - Ontario Poet Part 3

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Crawford, Isabella Valancy - Ontario Poet Part 3 Appreciation

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AN APPRECIATION

EIGHTEEN years had passed
since the death of Isabella
Valancy Crawford. There was
not a trace of her work save a
few copies of the paper-cov
ered "Old Spookses Pass,"
which had found friends here and there, though
at the time of its author s death there was no
body of opinion to create a sense of its value.
Many of her poems were lost in the old files
of the Toronto daily newspapers.

Isabella Valancy Crawford - Ontario Poet Part 2

Crawford, Isabella Valancy Part 2 - Ontario Poet Anthology

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ANTHOLOGY

From "WHO SEES A VISION"

Who sees a vision bright and bold
Hath found a treasure of pure gold ;

For say it vanisheth

When morning banisheth
Sleep, mother of all dreams,
Before his comely beams,
Thou didst not wis, before sleep showed to thee
That things so nobly fair might ever be ;

Isabella Valancy Crawford - Ontario Poet Part 1

PART 1 Biographical Notes - Isabella Valancy Crawford

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