Made in Montreal

  What need you, being come to sense, But fumble in a greasy till And add the halfpence to the pence And prayer to shivering prayer, until Y...

  When you are old and grey and full of sleep, And nodding by the fire, take down this book, And slowly read, and dream of the soft look You...

  William Butler Yeats in 1923 What need you, being come to sense, But fumble in a greasy till And add the halfpence to the pence And prayer...

  Western Park located on Atwater Avenue; opened in 1870, it was renamed Cabot Square in 1957 When you are old and grey and full of sleep, A...

  Knights Hospitallers, Limerick, Ireland We sat together at one summer’s end, That beautiful mild woman, your close friend,    And you and ...

  The bees build in the crevices Of loosening masonry, and there The mother birds bring grubs and flies; My wall is loosening; honey-bees, C...

Thomas D’Arcy McGee 1. Thomas D’Arcy McGee wasn’t a poet, like W.B Yeats, who was also involved in politics. Yeats was a distinguished poet ...

Back in July 1978, I visited my friend R.R. Skinner at Boisville, his home in Camberley, England. We had first met a few years before, in Au...