anne-of-the-island-books library

Anne of the Island

  The Daydream All precious things, discover’d late,
To those that seek them issue forth;
For love in sequel works with fate,
And draws the veil from hidden worth.
1 Jeremiah 8:20-22 Harvest is ended and summer is gone
  The Imitation of Christ
 So passes the glory of the world
  David Copperfield Uriah Heep
  The Walrus and the Carpenter Shoes and ships and sealing wax
And cabbages and kings,
2 Evangeline Garlands of Autumn
  Shakespeare Anne received a volume of Shakespeare…
3 The Sorrows of Werther
 Dora, like the immortal and most prudent Charlotte, who “went on cutting
bread and butter” when her frenzied lover’s body had been carried past on
a shutter, was one of those fortunate creatures who are seldom disturbed by
anything.
  Childe Harold Yes, I feel like Byron’s `Childe Harold’ — only it isn’t really my `native shore’
that I’m watching,” said Anne, winking her gray eyes vigorously. “Nova Scotia
is that, I suppose. But one’s native shore is the land one loves the best, and
that’s good old P.E.I. for me. I can’t believe I didn’t always live here…
4 Lucile And on Inkerman yet the wild bramble is gory,
And those bleak heights henceforth shall be famous in story
5 Matthew 23:27
 “outwardly they may be as whited sepulchers and inwardly as ravening
wolves”
  Matthew 8:28 “the swine that rushed madly down the steep place into the sea”
  Job 1:7
 The States must be an awful place. I hope you’ll never go there, Anne. But
the way girls roam over the earth now is something terrible. It always makes
me think of Satan in the Book of Job, going to and fro and walking up and
down. I don’t believe the Lord ever intended it, that’s what
6 Dickens in Camp And so in mountain solitudes o’ertaken
As by some spell divine,
Their cares drop from them like the needles shaken
From out the gusty pine
  The Lord of Burleigh
 the handsome houses where the wealthy nobles dwell
8 Macbeth To sleep went Jane easily and speedily; but, though very unlike MacBeth in
most respects, she had certainly contrived to murder sleep for Anne.
9 The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner “houses, houses everywhere, and not one for us”
  Macbeth “by the pricking of my thumbs,”
  Euripides Those whom the gods wish to destroy
  Revelation 20:7
 Gog and Magog
16 The Isles of Greece “What, silent still and silent all…”
19 Ode to
Immortality		 Phil came downstairs, trailing clouds of glory…
26 A Forest Hymn The woods were God’s first temples
29 Ode to
Immortality		 Where was it now — the glory and the dream?
  So Wags the World So wags the world away