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EGV4_douglas_song

XML     PDF A WINTER SONG The Database of Ornament                         THE wreath is faded from the reveller’s brow,                           Never a flower remains!                        Where is the beauty, where…

EGV4_desjardins_neige

XML     PDF IL NEIGE IL faut allumer les lampes dans les chambres closes. Une nuit blême, étrange, qui devance l’heure, ensevelit la lumière du…

EGV4_cuthbertson_grierson

XML     PDF GRIERSON OF LAG The Database of Ornament                         SIR Robert has risen at break o’ day                           In the spring time o’ the year,                        He has…

EGV4_christie_ages

XML     PDF BETWEEN THE AGES The Database of Ornament                         GONE is the spirit of old                                With the thirst for the strife;                        Gone is the fierce…

EGV4_balfour_month

XML     PDF THE BLACK MONTH The Database of Ornament IT is the Black Month—the Month of the Dead, the Month of those that do…

EGV3_vita_unborn

XML     PDF THE UNBORN The Database of Ornament THE Born to the Unborn cried,‘Come forth, my brother, to life, in the free andthe open…

EGV3_toc

XML     PDF TABLE OF CONTENTS The Database of Ornament          Cover    .      .      .     .     .    by CHARLES H. MACKIE.     [1]    Half-title page    .      .      .  [artist unknown.]     [3]    Title-page    .      .      .     .    decorated by JOHN DUNCAN.     5       Almanac    .      .      .     .      by HELEN HAY.     6       The…

EGV3_thomson_biology

XML     PDF THE BIOLOGY OF SUMMER The Database of Ornament ARGUMENT.—Life is rhythmic and is punctuated by the seasons. Summeris the crest of the…

EGV3_sharp_oceanus

XML     PDF OCEANUS The Database of Ornament                                           I                         Dead Calm: Noon. VAST, vast, immeasurably vast, thy dreadful peace,       When heaving with slow mighty breath thou       liestIn utter…

EGV3_robertson_sadness

XML     PDF SUMMER-NIGHT SADNESS The Database of Ornament             SAVE for the night-wind crisp and cool,               That vaguely thrills a sullen wave,            The calm that broods above…