Bliss Carman

Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics (version 2)

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Sappho lived six centuries before Christ, at a period when lyric poetry was peculiarly esteemed and cultivated at the centres of Greek life.…

Ballads of Lost Haven: A Book of the Sea

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This collection of lyric poems evokes the sea in every line, from birth (A Son of the Sea) to death (Outbound). The smells, sights and sound…

Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics

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In one hundred lyrical poems Carman strives to recreate the Lost Songs of Sappho, a task he fulfills both with imaginative freedom and great…

Song of the Kicking Horse

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LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of Song of the Kicking Horse by Bliss Carman. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for Septem…

Behind the Arras: A Book of the Unseen

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This is a volume of some of Bliss Carman's most beautiful narrative poems. All of the poems share a rather melancholy tone, which Carman use…

At Sunrise

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Canada has full right to be proud of her poets, a small body though they are; but not only does Mr. Carman stand high and clear above them a…

Premonition

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LibriVox volunteers bring you 16 recordings of Premonition by Bliss Carman.This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 27, 2019. ------…

Songs from Vagabondia

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This is the famous collection "Songs from Vagabondia", a collaboration between Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey, which at once catap…

By the Aurelian Wall and Other Elegies

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This is a small volume of beautiful melancholy verses by Canadian poet Bliss Carman. The poems share a common theme which is the death of pe…

A Vagabond Song

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LibriVox volunteers bring you fifteen different recordings of A Vagabond Song, by Bliss Carman, to celebrate the Autumnal Equinox. This was …

The Hearse-Horse

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LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of The Hearse-Horse by Bliss Carman.This was the Weekly Poetry project for October 28, 2018. -…

Low Tide on Grand Pré: A Book of Lyrics

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The first of more than thirty books of poetry by Canadian poet Bliss Carman. "The poems in this volume have been collected with refere…

Epilogue

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In 1904, Canadian poet Bliss Carman published Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics, which was not just a translation of the fragments but an imaginati…

Nocturne: In Anjou

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LibriVox volunteers bring you 19 recordings of Nocturne: In Anjou by Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey.This was the Weekly Poetry project for N…