Later Poems

by Bliss Carman

[BLISS CARMAN: AN APPRECIATION]
[VESTIGIA]
[A REMEMBRANCE]
[THE SHIPS OF YULE]
[THE SHIPS OF SAINT JOHN]
[THE GARDEN OF DREAMS]
[GARDEN MAGIC]
[IN GOLD LACQUER]
[APRILIAN]
[GARDEN SHADOWS]
[IN THE DAY OF BATTLE]
[TREES]
[THE GIVERS OF LIFE]
[A FIRESIDE VISION]
[A WATER COLOR]
[THRENODY FOR A POET]
[DUST OF THE STREET]
[TO A YOUNG LADY ON HER BIRTHDAY]
[THE GIFT]
[THE CRY OF THE HILLBORN]
[A MOUNTAIN GATEWAY]
[MORNING IN THE HILLS]
[A WOODPATH]
[WEATHER OF THE SOUL]
[HERE AND NOW]
[THE ANGEL OF JOY]
[THE HOMESTEAD]
["THE STARRY MIDNIGHT WHISPERS"]
[A LYRIC]
["APRIL NOW IN MORNING CLAD"]
[NIKE]
[THE ENCHANTED TRAVELLER]
[SPRING'S SARABAND]
[TRIUMPHALIS]
["NOW THE LENGTHENING TWILIGHTS HOLD"]
[THE SOUL OF APRIL]
[AN APRIL MORNING]
[EARTH VOICES]
[RESURGAM]
[EASTER EVE]
[NOW IS THE TIME OF YEAR]
[THE REDWING]
[THE RAINBIRD]
[LAMENT]
[UNDER THE APRIL MOON]
[THE FLUTE OF SPRING]
[SPRING NIGHT]
[BLOODROOT]
[DAFFODIL'S RETURN]
[NOW THE LILAC TREE'S IN BUD]
[WHITE IRIS]
[THE TREE OF HEAVEN]
[PEONY]
[THE URBAN PAN]
[THE SAILING OF THE FLEETS]
["'TIS MAY NOW IN NEW ENGLAND"]
[IN EARLY MAY]
[FIREFLIES]
[THE PATH TO SANKOTY]
[OFF MONOMOY]
[IN ST GERMAIN STREET]
[PAN IN THE CATSKILLS]
[A NEW ENGLAND JUNE]
[THE TENT OF NOON]
[CHILDREN OF DREAM]
[ROADSIDE FLOWERS]
[THE GARDEN OF SAINT ROSE]
[THE WORLD VOICE]
[SONGS OF THE GRASS]
[THE CHORISTERS]
[THE WEED'S COUNSEL]
[THE BLUE HERON]
[WOODLAND RAIN]
[SUMMER STORM]
[DANCE OF THE SUNBEAMS]
[THE CAMPFIRE OF THE SUN]
[SUMMER STREAMS]
[THE GOD OF THE WOODS]
[AT SUNRISE]
[AT TWILIGHT]
[MOONRISE]
[THE QUEEN OF NIGHT]
[NIGHT LYRIC]
[THE HEART OF NIGHT]
[PEACE]
[THE OLD GRAY WALL]
[TE DEUM]
[IN OCTOBER]
[BY STILL WATERS]
[LINES FOR A PICTURE]
[THE DESERTED PASTURE]
[AUTUMN]
[NOVEMBER TWILIGHT]
[THE GHOSTYARD OF THE GOLDENROD]
[BEFORE THE SNOW]
[WINTER]
[A WINTER PIECE]
[WINTER STREAMS]
[WINTER TWILIGHT]
[THE TWELFTH NIGHT STAR]
[A CHRISTMAS EVE CHORAL]
[CHRISTMAS SONG]
[THE WISE MEN FROM THE EAST]
[THE SENDING OF THE MAGI]
[THE ANGELS OF MAN]
[AT THE MAKING OF MAN]
[ST. MICHAEL'S STAR]
[THE DREAMERS]
[EL DORADO]
[ON THE PLAZA]
[A PAINTER'S HOLIDAY]
[MIRAGE]
[THE WINGED VICTORY]
[THE GATE OF PEACE]

Later Poems

Vestigia.

I took a day to search for God,
And found Him not. But as I trod
By rocky ledge, through woods untamed,
Just where one scarlet lily flamed,
I saw His footprint in the sod.

Then suddenly, all unaware,
Far off in the deep shadows, where
A solitary hermit thrush
Sang through the holy twilight hush—
I heard His voice upon the air.

And even as I marvelled how
God gives us Heaven here and now,
In a stir of wind that hardly shook
The poplar leaves beside the brook—
His hand was light upon my brow.

At last with evening as I turned
Homeward, and thought what I had learned
And all that there was still to probe—
I caught the glory of His robe
Where the last fires of sunset burned.

Back to the world with quickening start
I looked and longed for any part
In making saving Beauty be....
And from that kindling ecstasy
I knew God dwelt within my heart.