| William Wilfred Campbell, comp. The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse. 1913. | | | | Night | | By John Henry Brown (1859–1946) |
| | | AN EARTH-THRONED queen, she leans with languid grace, | |
| And fills the round of vision radiantly. | |
| Soft lights and shades the heaven of her face | |
| Endue with spell-framed hints of mystery. | |
| Her breathing, like the flower-sweet breath of May, | 5 |
| When summer’s light wind-heralds run before, | |
| Gives fragrance unto gardens; while the day, | |
| Enamoured, through the cloud-hung Western door, | |
| Peers backward. On her jewelled vest are seen, | |
| ’Mid broidered streams and trees, the homes of men; | 10 |
| Here jolts a rolling wain through meadows green, | |
| And kine belated wind through yonder glen. | |
| From out her star-inwoven dusk of hair | |
| A silver crescent gleams divinely fair. | | | | |
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