Newfoundland Verse: Echoes of a Coastal Land

by E.J. Pratt

Old; old is the sea to-day.
A sudden stealth of age
Has torn away
The texture of its youth and grace;
And filched the rose of daybreak from its waters.
Now lines of grey
And dragging vapors on its brow
Heavily are drawn;
And it lies broken as with centuries;
Though yesterday;

144 pages, Kindle Edition

Published September 17, 2019

About the author

Edwin John Dove Pratt, who published as E. J. Pratt, was "the leading Canadian poet of his time." He was a Canadian poet originally from Newfoundland who lived most of his life in Toronto, Ontario. A three-time winner of the country's Governor General's Award for poetry, he has been called "the foremost Canadian poet of the first half of the century."