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Bliss Carman

1861–1929

Bliss Carman (1861–1929) was a Canadian-born poet, born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, who spent much of his career in the United States.

With Richard Hovey he wrote the vagabond lyrics of Songs from Vagabondia (1894).

Poems (319)

  1. A Vagabond Song
  2. The Gravedigger
  3. Hem and Haw
  4. Daisies
  5. The Eavesdropper
  6. Lord of my Heart's Elation
  7. The Unreturning
  8. Why
  9. The Wraith of the Red Swan
  10. Low Tide on Grand-Pré
  11. In Apple Time
  12. Carnations in Winter
  13. In Lyric Season
  14. A Windflower
  15. The Pensioners
  16. At the Voice of a Bird
  17. When the Guelder Roses Bloom
  18. Seven Things
  19. A Sea Child
  20. Pulvis et Umbra
  21. Through the Twilight
  22. A Northern Vigil
  23. Wanderer
  24. Afoot
  25. Wayfaring
  26. The End of the Trail
  27. The Vagabonds
  28. Whither
  29. Behind the Arras
  30. Fancy's Fool
  31. The Moondial
  32. The Face in the Stream
  33. The Cruise of the Galleon
  34. A Song Before Sailing
  35. In the Wings
  36. The Red Wolf
  37. The Faithless Lover
  38. The Crimson House
  39. The Lodger
  40. Beyond the Gamut
  41. The Juggler
  42. Hack and Hew
  43. The Night Express
  44. The Dustman
  45. The Sleepers
  46. At the Granite Gate
  47. Exit Anima
  48. By the Aurelian Wall
  49. The White Gull
  50. The Country of Har
  51. To Richard Lovelace
  52. A Seamark
  53. The Word of the Water
  54. Phillips Brooks
  55. John Eliot Bowen
  56. Henry George
  57. Ilicet
  58. To Raphael
  59. To P. V.
  60. A Norse Child's Requiem
  61. In the Heart of the Hills
  62. An Afterword
  63. Seven Wind Songs
  64. Andrew Straton
  65. The Grave-Tree
  66. A Son of the Sea
  67. The Yule Guest
  68. The Marring of Malyn
  69. The Nancy's Pride
  70. Arnold, Master of the Scud
  71. The Ships of St. John
  72. The King of Ys
  73. The Kelpie Riders
  74. Noons of Poppy
  75. Legends of Lost Haven
  76. The Shadow Boatswain
  77. The Master of the Isles
  78. The Last Watch
  79. Outbound
  80. December in Scituate
  81. Winter at Tortoise Shell
  82. Bahaman
  83. Flying Fish
  84. In Bay Street
  85. Migrants
  86. White Nassau
  87. Vestigia
  88. A Remembrance
  89. The Ships of Yule
  90. The Ships of Saint John
  91. The Garden of Dreams
  92. Garden Magic
  93. In Gold Lacquer
  94. Aprilian
  95. Garden Shadows
  96. In the Day of Battle
  97. Trees
  98. The Givers of Life
  99. A Fireside Vision
  100. A Water Color
  101. Threnody for a Poet
  102. Dust of the Street
  103. To a Young Lady on Her Birthday
  104. The Gift
  105. The Cry of the Hillborn
  106. A Mountain Gateway
  107. Morning in the Hills
  108. A Wood-path
  109. Weather of the Soul
  110. Here and Now
  111. The Angel of Joy
  112. The Homestead
  113. The Starry Midnight Whispers
  114. A Lyric
  115. April Now in Morning Clad
  116. Nike
  117. The Enchanted Traveller
  118. Spring's Saraband
  119. Triumphalis
  120. Now the Lengthening Twilights Hold
  121. The Soul of April
  122. An April Morning
  123. Earth Voices
  124. Resurgam
  125. Easter Eve
  126. Now Is the Time of Year
  127. The Redwing
  128. The Rainbird
  129. Lament
  130. Under the April Moon
  131. The Flute of Spring
  132. Spring Night
  133. Bloodroot
  134. Daffodil's Return
  135. Now the Lilac Tree's in Bud
  136. White Iris
  137. The Tree of Heaven
  138. Peony
  139. The Urban Pan
  140. The Sailing of the Fleets
  141. 'Tis May Now in New England
  142. In Early May
  143. Fireflies
  144. The Path to Sankoty
  145. Off Monomoy
  146. In St. Germain Street
  147. Pan in the Catskills
  148. A New England June
  149. The Tent of Noon
  150. Children of Dream
  151. Roadside Flowers
  152. The Garden of Saint Rose
  153. The World Voice
  154. Songs of the Grass
  155. The Choristers
  156. The Weed's Counsel
  157. The Blue Heron
  158. Woodland Rain
  159. Summer Storm
  160. Dance of the Sunbeams
  161. The Campfire of the Sun
  162. Summer Streams
  163. The God of the Wood
  164. At Sunrise
  165. At Twilight
  166. Moonrise
  167. The Queen of Night
  168. Night Lyric
  169. The Heart of Night
  170. Peace
  171. The Old Gray Wall
  172. Te Deum
  173. In October
  174. By Still Waters
  175. Lines for a Picture
  176. The Deserted Pasture
  177. Autumn
  178. November Twilight
  179. The Ghost-yard of the Goldenrod
  180. Before the Snow
  181. Winter
  182. A Winter Piece
  183. Winter Streams
  184. Winter Twilight
  185. The Twelfth Night Star
  186. A Christmas Eve Choral
  187. Christmas Song
  188. The Wise Men from the East
  189. The Sending of the Magi
  190. The Angels of Man
  191. At the Making of Man
  192. St. Michael's Star
  193. The Dreamers
  194. El Dorado
  195. On the Plaza
  196. A Painter's Holiday
  197. Mirage
  198. The Winged Victory
  199. The Gate of Peace
  200. Sappho: Prologue
  201. Sappho: I
  202. Sappho: II
  203. Sappho: III
  204. Sappho: IV
  205. Sappho: V
  206. Sappho: VI
  207. Sappho: VII
  208. Sappho: VIII
  209. Sappho: IX
  210. Sappho: X
  211. Sappho: XI
  212. Sappho: XII
  213. Sappho: XIII
  214. Sappho: XIV
  215. Sappho: XV
  216. Sappho: XVI
  217. Sappho: XVII
  218. Sappho: XVIII
  219. Sappho: XIX
  220. Sappho: XX
  221. Sappho: XXI
  222. Sappho: XXII
  223. Sappho: XXIII
  224. Sappho: XXIV
  225. Sappho: XXV
  226. Sappho: XXVI
  227. Sappho: XXVII
  228. Sappho: XXVIII
  229. Sappho: XXIX
  230. Sappho: XXX
  231. Sappho: XXXI
  232. Sappho: XXXII
  233. Sappho: XXXIII
  234. Sappho: XXXIV
  235. Sappho: XXXV
  236. Sappho: XXXVI
  237. Sappho: XXXVII
  238. Sappho: XXXVIII
  239. Sappho: XXXIX
  240. Sappho: XL
  241. Sappho: XLI
  242. Sappho: XLII
  243. Sappho: XLIII
  244. Sappho: XLIV
  245. Sappho: XLV
  246. Sappho: XLVI
  247. Sappho: XLVII
  248. Sappho: XLVIII
  249. Sappho: XLIX
  250. Sappho: L
  251. Sappho: LI
  252. Sappho: LII
  253. Sappho: LIII
  254. Sappho: LIV
  255. Sappho: LV
  256. Sappho: LVI
  257. Sappho: LVII
  258. Sappho: LVIII
  259. Sappho: LIX
  260. Sappho: LX
  261. Sappho: LXI
  262. Sappho: LXII
  263. Sappho: LXIII
  264. Sappho: LXIV
  265. Sappho: LXV
  266. Sappho: LXVI
  267. Sappho: LXVII
  268. Sappho: LXVIII
  269. Sappho: LXIX
  270. Sappho: LXX
  271. Sappho: LXXI
  272. Sappho: LXXII
  273. Sappho: LXXIII
  274. Sappho: LXXIV
  275. Sappho: LXXV
  276. Sappho: LXXVI
  277. Sappho: LXXVII
  278. Sappho: LXXVIII
  279. Sappho: LXXIX
  280. Sappho: LXXX
  281. Sappho: LXXXI
  282. Sappho: LXXXII
  283. Sappho: LXXXIII
  284. Sappho: LXXXIV
  285. Sappho: LXXXV
  286. Sappho: LXXXVI
  287. Sappho: LXXXVII
  288. Sappho: LXXXVIII
  289. Sappho: LXXXIX
  290. Sappho: XC
  291. Sappho: XCI
  292. Sappho: XCII
  293. Sappho: XCIII
  294. Sappho: XCIV
  295. Sappho: XCV
  296. Sappho: XCVI
  297. Sappho: XCVII
  298. Sappho: XCVIII
  299. Sappho: XCIX
  300. Sappho: C
  301. Sappho: Epilogue
  302. Song
  303. The War-Song of Gamelbar
  304. Golden Rowan
  305. Spring Song
  306. Songs of the Sea Children: Let the red dawn surmise
  307. Songs of the Sea Children: I was a reed in the stilly stream
  308. Songs of the Sea Children: I think the sun when he turns at night
  309. Overlord
  310. The Players
  311. A Creature Catechism
  312. On Love
  313. In the House of Idiedaily
  314. Marian Drury
  315. A More Ancient Mariner
  316. The Mendicants
  317. Envoy
  318. With the Orient in her eyes
  319. The Joys of the Road

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