Bliss Carman
Bliss Carman
Bliss Carman FRSCwas a Canadian poet who lived most of his life in the United States, where he achieved international fame. He was acclaimed as Canada's poet laureate during his later years...
NationalityCanadian
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth15 April 1861
CountryCanada
life running men
Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.
lonely autumn asters
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 a smoke upon the hills.
rain thank-god way
Thank God for poverty That makes and keeps us free And lets us go our unobtrusive way, Glad of the sun and rain, Upright, serene, humane, Contented with the fortune of a day.
nature men joy
The greatest joy in nature is the absence of man.
shining heaven yards
On the shining yards of heaven See a wider dawn unfurled. . . . The eternal slaves of beauty Are the masters of the world.
heart army sunshine
Over the shoulders and slopes of the dune I saw the white daisies go down to the sea, A host in the sunshine, an army in June, The people God sends us to set our heart free.
pride soul mind
Love manifests itself in our bodies as instinctive craving, in our souls as devotion, and in our minds as pride.
heart good-friend men
It is not being out at heels that makes a man discontented, it is being out at heart. To be contented is to be good friends with yourself.
heart autumn blood
There is something in the autumn that is native to my blood- Touch of manner, hint of mood; And my heart is like a rhyme, With the yellow and the purple and the crimson keeping time.
inspirational life dream
I heard the spring light whisper Above the dancing stream, The world is made forever in likeness of a dream.
art work self
Set me a task in which I can put something of my very self, and it is a task no longer; it is joy; it is art.
wish facts world
I often wish... that I could rid the world of the tyranny of facts. What are facts but compromises? A fact merely marks the point where we have agreed to let investigation cease.
endurance firsts events
The first need of being is endurance; to endure with gladness if we can, with fortitude in any event.
beauty eye giving
Lord of the far horizons, Give us the eyes to see Over the verge of the sundown The beauty that is to be.