By the Aurelian Wall, and Other Elegies

By Bliss Carman

This book is a collection of elegiac poems written by Bliss Carman. He was a Canadian poet who lived most of his life in the United States, where he achieved international fame. In his later years, he was acclaimed as Canada's poet laureate. In this volume of work, more than a dozen of his poems are featured, including the following: 'To Raphael', 'Seven Wind Songs', 'The White Gull', 'A Seamark', and 'A Word of the Water'.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Good Press
• Release date: Dec 18, 2019
• ISBN: 4064066152543

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Bliss Carman

By the Aurelian Wall, and Other Elegies

Published by Good Press, 2022

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EAN 4064066152543

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THE WHITE GULL For the Centenary of the Birth of Shelley

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

VIII

THE COUNTRY OF HAR For the Centenary of Blake’s Songs of Innocence

TO RICHARD LOVELACE

A SEAMARK A Threnody for Robert Louis Stevenson

THE WORD OF THE WATER For the Unveiling of the Stevenson Fountain in San Francisco

PHILLIPS BROOKS

JOHN ELIOT BOWEN

HENRY GEORGE

ILICET

TO RAPHAEL

TO P. V.

A NORSE CHILD’S REQUIEM

IN THE HEART OF THE HILLS

AN AFTERWORD To G. B. R.

SEVEN WIND SONGS

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

ANDREW STRATON

THE GRAVE-TREE

THE WHITE GULL

For the Centenary of the Birth of Shelley

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Up

by the idling reef-set bell

The tide comes in;

And to the idle heart to-day

The wind has many things to say;

The sea has many a tale to tell

His younger kin.

For we are his, bone of his bone,

Breath of his breath;

The doom tides sway us at their will;

The sky of being rounds us still;

And over us at last is blown

The wind of death.

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A hundred

years ago to-day

There came a soul,

A pilgrim of the perilous light,

Treading the spheral paths of night,

On whom the word and vision lay

With dread control.

Now the pale Summer lingers near,

And talks to me

Of all her wayward journeyings,

And the old, sweet, forgotten things

She loved and lost and dreamed of here

By the blue sea.

The great cloud-navies, one by one,

Bend sails and fill

From ports below the round sea-verge;

I watch them gather and emerge,

And steer for havens of the sun

Beyond the hill.

The gray sea-horses troop and roam;

The shadows fly

Along the wind-floor at their heels;

And where the golden daylight wheels,

A white gull searches the blue dome

With keening cry.

And something, Shelley, like thy fame

Dares the wide morn

In that sea-rover’s glimmering flight,

As