| William Wilfred Campbell, comp. The Oxford Book of Canadian Verse. 1913. | | | | O Amber Day | | By William Talbot Allison (1874–1941) |
| | | O AMBER day amid the autumn gloom, | |
| With languid lids drooping on eyes of dream, | |
| How many ancient poets in their bloom | |
| Have sung the strange, sad wonder of thy gleam! | |
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| O splendid softness of the iron days, | 5 |
| Mistress between the haunts of life and death, | |
| The poets of our time entune thy praise, | |
| And love the sweet nepenthe of thy breath. | |
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| And so to them lost in thy purple eyes, | |
| Come visions of the Vallombrosan groves, | 10 |
| Where flaming dawns, and mellow evening skies, | |
| And falling leaves saw old unhappy loves. | | | | |
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