Charles G. D. Roberts

Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts KCMG FRSC (January 10, 1860 – November 26, 1943) was a Canadian poet and prose writer. He was one of the first Canadian authors to be internationally known.

Quotes

• When the Sleepy Man comes with the dust on his eyes
     (Oh, weary, my Dearie, so weary!)
  He shuts up the earth, and he opens the skies.
     (So hush-a-by, weary my Dearie!)
  • "Sleepy Man", The Book of the Native (1896), p. 112

• Time, like a flurry of wild rain,
  Shall drift across the darkened pane!
  • "The Unsleeping", The Book of the Native (1896), p. 46

• O wild, dark flower of woman,
  Deep rose of my desire,
  An Eastern wizard made you
  Of earth and stars and fire.
  • "The Rose of my Desire", The Book of the Rose (1903), p. 14

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Charles G. D. Roberts on Wikipedia