In My Study,

William Wilfred Campbell 1860 (Newmarket) – 1918 (Ottawa)



Out over my study,
  All ashen and ruddy,
Sinks the December sun;
  And high up over
  The chimney’s soot cove,
The winter night wind has begun.

  Here in the red embers
  I dream old Decembers,
Until the low moan of the blast,
  Like a voice out of Ghost-land,

  
   Or memory’s lost-land,
Seems to conjure up wraiths of the past.

  Then into the room
  Through the firelight and gloom,
Some one steals,—let the night-wind grow bleak,

  
  And ever so coldly,—
  Two white arms enfold me,
And a sweet face is close to my cheek

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Submitted on May 13, 2011

Modified on March 15, 2023

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Scheme AABXXB CCDE ED FFG AAG
Closest metre Iambic trimeter
Characters 541
Words 97
Stanzas 5
Stanza Lengths 6, 4, 2, 3, 3

William Wilfred Campbell

William Wilfred Campbell (1 June ca. 1860 – 1 January 1918) was a Canadian poet. He is often classed as one of the country's Confederation Poets, a group that included fellow Canadians Charles G. D. Roberts, Bliss Carman, Archibald Lampman, and Duncan Campbell Scott; he was a colleague of Lampman and Scott. By the end of the 19th century, he was considered the "unofficial poet laureate of Canada." Although not as well known as the other Confederation poets today, Campbell was a "versatile, interesting writer" who was influenced by Robert Burns, the English Romantics, Edgar Allan Poe, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Thomas Carlyle, and Alfred Tennyson. Inspired by these writers, Campbell expressed his own religious idealism in traditional forms and genres.  more…

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