Sir Charles G. D. Roberts (1860 - 1943) was a Canadian poet and writer. Roberts was one of the Confederation poets. His most famous works were In Divers Tones (1887) and Songs of the Common Day and Ave! An Ode for the Shelley Centenary (1893). Earth's Enigmas written in 1896 is a collection of short stories. Stories in this collection include: Do Seek their Meat from God, The Perdu, "The Young Ravens that Call upon Him", Within Sound of the Saws, The Butt of the Camp, In the Accident Ward, The Romance of an Ox-Team, A Tragedy of the Tides, At the Rough-and-Tumble Landing, An Experience of Jabez Batterpole, The Stone Dog, The Barn on the Marsh, Captain Joe and Jamie, Strayed, and The Eye of Gluskap.