#William Bliss Carman

[canadachronicles]

"ALL day long beneath the sun Shining through the fields they run, Singing in a cadence known To the seraphs round the throne. And the traveller drawing near Through the meadow, halts to hear Anthems of a natural joy No disaster can destroy. All night long from set of sun Through the starry woods they run, Singing through the purple dark Songs to make a traveller hark. All night long, when winds are low, Underneath my window go The immortal happy streams, Making music through my dreams."

--Summer Streams, Bliss Carman

[septembersung]

What's your favourite month (poetry ask game)

Selections From: When the Frost is on the Punkin by James Whitcomb Riley ; Keats, To Autumn ; A Vagabond Song by William Carman Bliss

[antiquity-sweetly-sung]

from Delphi Classic's Complete Works Of Sappho

Edit: I've been informed that this not a direct translation but rather an interpretation by William Bliss Carman of how he imagines Sappho's full works may have been written.

[tuesdaystarot]

Hello! I'd like a reading please,because I'm genuinely confused :] What is happening with my connection with AR? I don't really know about his intentions with me :\ I'm an aquarius moon and intp,initials--TU😌 Thank you very much,I hope you are safe🌸 Have a nice day!! :)

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Poem: A Vagabond Song by Bliss William Carman

“The scarlet of the maples can shake me like a cry

Of bugles going by. And my lonely spirit thrills

To see the frosty asters like smoke upon a hill”

there is a lot of smoke and mirrors between you, lots of feelings but not much communication. The truth is even though he doesn’t act like it, he’s very lonely without you and craves your company.

I’m sorry I know this has sad undertones but there is also great potential here so don’t lose hope 💓

Sending much love and I appreciate feed back if you’d like ❤️

[1five1two]

At the end of the road through the wood

I see the great moon rise.

The fields are flooded with shine,

And my soul with surmise.

What if that mystic orb

With her shadowy beams,

Should be the revealer at last

Of my darkest dreams!

What if this tender fire

In my heart's deep hold

Should be wiser than all the lore

Of the sages of old!

Bliss William Carman

[dabiconcordia]

British artist Tim Pugh makes elaborate artwork on site out of sticks, leaves, pine cones, and other found materials in nature. 

"There is something in October sets the gypsy blood astir: We must rise and follow her, When from every hill of flame she calls, and calls each vagabond by name" — William Bliss Carman  

[gracepaced]

“WE are the roadside flowers, Straying from garden grounds, - Lovers of idle hours, Breakers of ordered bounds. If only the earth will feed us, If only the wind be kind, We blossom for those who need us, The stragglers left behind. And lo, the Lord of the Garden, He makes his sun to rise, And his rain to fall like pardon On our dusty paradise. On us he has laid the duty, - The task of the wandering breed,- To better the world with beauty, Wherever the way may lead. Who shall inquire of the season, Or question the wind where it blows? We blossom and ask no reason. The Lord of the Garden knows.” -Bliss William Carman https://www.instagram.com/p/CS1gGxArIhe/?utm_medium=tumblr

[biblioncollection]

World's Best Poetry, Volume 7: Descriptive and Narrative (Part 1) | Various | Anthologies, Elegies & Odes | Audiobook full unabridged | English | 1/2 Content of the video and Sections beginning time (clickable) - Chapters of the audiobook: please see First comments under this video. The seventh of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, contains a variety of odes, elegies, addresses, epitaphs and dedications that praise, mourn and remember some of history's greatest and most memorable statesmen (such as Napoleon Bonaparte, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln) and writers (such as William Shakespeare, John Milton, Charles Dickens and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow). The collection also includes an introductory essay by author and poet Richard Le Gallienne (1866-1947). - Summary by Tomas Peter This is a Librivox recording. If you want to volunteer please visit https://librivox.org/ by Priceless Audiobooks

[aaronobscura]

Aaron’s grandmother’s favourite poem was called “A Vagabond Song,” and it was written by Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey. It is an ode to the power of the season of autumn and the month of October, something Aaron feels very strongly every year. He loves the cooler weather, the changing leaves, and to think of himself as a gypsy or vagabond, though he has never done much travelling let alone lived a nomadic existence. It also reminds him of the ballad every baritone sings at some point when he is learning to sing, Ralph Vaughan Williams’s “The Vagabond.” He keeps a folded copy of the poem, given to him by his mother after his grandmother died, in his wallet, and brings it out often in the fall.

[canadachronicles]

"Over the wintry threshold Who comes with joy today, So frail, yet so enduring, To triumph o'er dismay? Ah, quick her tears are springing, And quickly they are dried, For sorrow walks before her, But gladness walks beside. She comes with gusts of laughter, -- The music as it rills; With tenderness and sweetness, The wisdom of the hills. Her hands are strong to comfort, Her heart is quick to heed; She knows the signs of sadness, She knows the voice of need; There is no living creature, However poor or small, But she will know its trouble, And hearken to its call. Oh, well they fare forever, By mighty dreams possessed, Whose hearts have lain a moment On that eternal breast."

Over The Wintry Threshold, Bliss Carman

[violettesiren]

Along the wintry skyline, Crowning the rocky crest, Stands the bare screen of hardwood trees Against the saffron west,— Its gray and purple network Of branching tracery Outspread upon the lucent air, Like weed within the sea. The scarlet robe of autumn Renounced and put away, The mystic Earth is fairer still, — A Puritan in gray.

The spirit of the winter, How tender, how austere! Yet all the ardor of the spring And summer's dream are here. Fear not, O timid lover, The touch of frost and rime! This is the virtue that sustained The roses in their prime.

The anthem of the northwind Shall hallow thy despair, The benediction of the snow Be answer to thy prayer.

And now the star of evening That is the pilgrim's sign, Is lighted in the primrose dusk, — A lamp before a shrine.

Peace fills the mighty minster, Tranquil and gray and old, And all the chancel of the west Is bright with paling gold. A little wind goes sifting Along the meadow floor,— Like steps of lovely penitents Who sighingly adore. Then falls the twilight curtain, And fades the eerie light, And frost and silence turn the keys In the great doors of night.                                            

Winter Twilight by Bliss William Carman

[itsfreeaudiobook]

The seventh of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, contains a variety of odes, elegies, addresses, epitaphs and dedications that praise, mourn and remember some of history's greatest and most memorable statesmen (such as Napoleon Bonaparte, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln) and writers (such as William Shakespeare, John Milton, Charles Dickens and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow). The collection also includes an introductory essay by author and poet Richard Le Gallienne (1866-1947). - Summary by Tomas Peter via Libricox

[whentalztalks]

Bliss William Carman - If Death Be Good

(Sappho LXXIV)

If death be good,

Why do the gods not die?

If life be ill,

Why do the gods still live?

If love be naught,

Why do the gods still love?

If love be all,

What should men do but love?

[whosaidxyz]

A Creature Catechism , A poem by Bliss William Carman. For more audio poems, check out our site at http://AudioPoems.org

[bookmonsterzero]

2017: Jan 29 - Feb 4

Read

030. The Third Reich in Power by Richard J. Evans

031. Selected Stories by Alice Munro

032. Monkey: A Journey to the West by Wu Cheng'en

033. Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics by Bliss Carman 

034. The Purpose Driven Life by Rick Warren

035. The Cyberiad by Stanisław Lem

Seen

113. A House Divided (1931/William Wyler)

114. Sister Kenny (1946/Dudley Nichols)

115. The Hansom Cabman (1924/Harry Edwards)

116. Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (1926/Harry Edwards)

117. Granddad (1913/Jay Hunt)

118. The Invaders (1912/Francis Ford & Thomas H. Ince)

119. Civilization (1916/Thomas H. Ince et al)

120. Manchester by the Sea (2016/Kenneth Lonergan)

121. The Defiant Ones (1958/Stanley Kramer)

122. The Moon and Sixpence (1942/Albert Lewin)

123. Lemonade Joe (1964/Oldřich Lipský)

124. Wish You Were Here (1987/David Leland)

125. The Beekeeper (1986/Theo Angelopoulos)

126. Judith (1966/Daniel Mann)

127. The Library (2014/Nattawut Poonpiriya)

128. All That Matters Is Past (2012/Sara Johnsen)

129. My Afternoons with Margueritte (2010/Jean Becker)

130. The Big Street (1942/Irving Reis)

131. The Young Mr. Pitt (1942/Carol Reed)

132. St. Martin’s Lane (1938/Tim Whelan)

133. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921/Rex Ingram)

134. The Iron Horse (1924/John Ford)

135. Directed by John Ford (2006/Peter Bogdanovich)

136. “Ten Minutes Older” (1978/Herz Frank)

137. “Inhabitants” (1970/Artavazd Peleshian)

138. The Jewel in the Crown (Mini-Series 1984)

139. Moran of the Lady Letty (1922/George Melford)

140. The Dam Busters (1955/Michael Anderson)

141. The Thief (1997/Pavel Chukhray)

142. Spring in a Small Town (1948/Fei Mu)

143. Tangerines (2013/Zaza Urushadze)

144. Equinox Flower (1958/Yasujirô Ozu)

145. Anna Karenina (1967/Aleksandr Zarkhi)

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[biblioncollection]

World's Best Poetry, Volume 7: Descriptive and Narrative (Part 1) | Various | Anthologies, Elegies & Odes | Audiobook full unabridged | English | 2/2 Content of the video and Sections beginning time (clickable) - Chapters of the audiobook: please see First comments under this video. The seventh of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, contains a variety of odes, elegies, addresses, epitaphs and dedications that praise, mourn and remember some of history's greatest and most memorable statesmen (such as Napoleon Bonaparte, George Washington and Abraham Lincoln) and writers (such as William Shakespeare, John Milton, Charles Dickens and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow). The collection also includes an introductory essay by author and poet Richard Le Gallienne (1866-1947). - Summary by Tomas Peter This is a Librivox recording. If you want to volunteer please visit https://librivox.org/ by Priceless Audiobooks