their poetic side your own". Canton's later work was more religious in emphasis, but his output almost ceased after the death of his daughter. In 1913 Canton began a new religious poem The Mask of Veronica, but it was unfinished at his death. Quotations And our lineage was hoary ere Eve's apple tree grew green; For the Bee, whose drowsy humming Was prophetic of Man's coming, Lies in gem-like tomb of amber, buried in the Miocene. (Through the Ages) What year was it that blew The Aryan's wicker-work canoe Which brought the shell to English land? What prehistoric man or woman's hand, With what intent, consigned it to this grave — The barrow set in sound of the Ancient World's last wave? (An Indian Cowrie found in a Cornish barrow at Land's End) Works A Lost Epic and other poems (1887) The fairy princess, and other poems The Invisible Playmate: A Story of the Unseen (1894) W. V. Her Book (1896) W. V's Golden Legend (1898) A Child's Book of Saints 1907 (1898) Children's sayings : edited with a digression on the small people (1900) In memory of W. V. (1901) The Comrades (1902) poems A history of the British and Foreign Bible Society, 5 vols (1904-1910). The Bible and the Anglo-Saxon People (1914) Poems (1927, Harrap) A Child's Book of Warriors (1912) illustrated by Herbert Cole References Poems of Today (1915), p. xix of biographical notes to later editions. External links W. V. Her Book and Various Verses and W. V.'s Golden Legend from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature William Canton poems at the Baldwin Project 1845 births 1926 deaths British poets British Protestants British children's writers Victorian poets British male poets