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Title: Later Poems

Author: Bliss Carman

Release Date: August 12, 2010 [EBook #33417]

Language: English

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Produced by Al Haines

[Illustration: cover art]

[Illustration: front end papers]

Oh, well the world is dreaming
Under the April moon,
Her soul in love with beauty,
Her senses all a-swoon!

Pure hangs the silver crescent
Above the twilight wood,
And pure the silver music
Wakes from the marshy flood.

O Earth, with all thy transport,
How comes it life should seem
A shadow in the moonlight,
A murmur in a dream?

[Frontispiece: Bliss Carman]

LATER POEMS

BY BLISS CARMAN

WITH AN APPRECIATION

BY R. H. HATHAWAY

_And decorations by J. E. H. MacDonald A.R.C.A_

MCCLELLAND & STEWART

PUBLISHERS -- TORONTO

Copyright, Canada, 1921

By MCCLELLAND & STEWART, Limited, TORONTO

First Printing 1921
Second " 1922
Third " 1922
Fourth " 1923

Printed in Canada

Publisher's Note

The present volume is made up of poems from Mr. Carman's three latest
books, _The Rough Rider_, _Echoes from Vagabondia_, and _April Airs_,
together with a number of more recent poems which have not before been
issued in book form.

Bliss Carman: An Appreciation

How many Canadians--how many even among the few who seek to keep
themselves informed of the best in contemporary literature, who are
ever on the alert for the new voices--realise, or even suspect, that
this Northern land of theirs has produced a poet of whom it may be
affirmed with confidence and assurance that he is of the great
succession of English poets? Yet such--strange and unbelievable though
it may seem--is in very truth the case, that poet being (to give him
his full name) William Bliss Carman. 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 all--his place (and time cannot
but confirm and justify the assertion