Another significant poet of the Second Renaissance period, whose verse deserves special mention, is Lloyd Roberts. Early in 1914 he published a volume of verse entitled, _England Over Seas_. Lloyd Roberts is the son of Charles G. D. Roberts. No doubt, he inherited his poetic gifts from his father, and, no doubt, learned the principles of technical artistry from him. But, as a matter of fact, in his own published verse, Lloyd Roberts shows qualities—love of Nature and the gift of a singularly lyrical lilt—that are nearer the verse of his father’s cousin, the inimitable lyrist of the seasons, the vagrom heart, and the open road, Bliss Carman. In _England Over Seas_, the younger Roberts is an enchanting lover of Nature, a vivid colorist, and a melodious verbal musician. Nature is, in his own phrase, ‘the star’—always the theme and in the foreground. Of his qualities as a nature-painter and a verbal melodist, the following is an excellent example:— Crimson and gold in the paling sky; The rampikes black where they tower on high— And we follow the trails in the early dawn Through the glades where the white frosts lie. Down where the flaming maples meet; Where the leaves are blood before our feet We follow the lure of the twisting paths While the air tastes thin and sweet. Leggings and jackets are drenched with dew; The long thin barrels are cold and blue; But the glow of the Autumn burns in our veins, And the eyes and hands are true. Where the sun drifts down from overhead (Tangled gleams in the scarlet bed), Rush of wings through the forest aisle— And the leaves are a brighter red. Loud drum the cocks in the thickets nigh; Gray is the smoke where the ruffed grouse die. There’s blackened shell in the trampled fern When the white moon swims the sky. The number of the poets of the Second Renaissance is legion. Amongst them are Arthur S. Bourinot, Gertrude Bartlett, Bernard F. Trotter (deceased), Arthur L. Phelps, Lucy M. Montgomery-MacDonald, Grace Blackburn, Beatrice Redpath, Laura E. McCully, Louise Morey Bowman, Florence Randal Livesay, Norah Holland, Amy Pennington, Carroll C. Aikins, Wm. A. Creelman, Andrew D. Merkel, Alexander Louis Fraser, Peter MacLaren MacDonald, Clare Giffen, Erica Selfridge, Charles T. Bruce, Marian Osborne, H. J. Maclean. It were worth while to review in detail the work of Arthur S. Bourinot as represented in his _Laurentian Lyrics_ (1915), and _Lyrics From the Hills_ (1923), and Arthur L. Phelps as represented in his _Poems_ (1921) and _A Bobcaygeon Chapbook_ (1923). Bourinot attracted attention by his noble and moving sonnet _To The Memory of Rupert Brooke_ and his tender and musical war lyric beginning:— They are not dead, the soldier and the sailor.