Carman, B liss. 1861-1929 KPU -- Selected Poetry or Bliss Carman (1861-1929) Page 1 of 2 REPRESENTATIVE POETRY ONLINE Poet Index Poem Index Random Search Introduction Timeline Calendar Glossary Criticism Bibliography RPO Canadian Poetry UTEL Selected Poetry of Bliss Carman (1861-1929) from Representative Poetry On-line Prepared by members of the Department of English at the University of Toronto from 1912 to the present and published by the University of Toronto Press from 1912 to 1967. RPO Edited by Ian Lancashire A UTEL (University of Toronto English Library) Edition Published by the Web Development Group, Information Technology Services, University of Toronto Libraries © 2005, Ian Lancashire for the Department of English, University of Toronto Index to poems O Atthis, how I loved thee long ago In that fair perished summer by the sea! ("I Loved Thee, Atthis, in the Long Ago", 17-18) 1. Behind the Arras 2. By the Aurelian Wall 3. Earth Voices 4. The Eavesdropper 5. The Heart of Night 6. "I Loved Thee, Atthis, in the Long Ago" 7. "If Death be Good" 8. Lord of iny Heart's Elation 9. Low Tide on Grand Pré 10. The Old Gray Wall 11. On the Plaza 12. Rivers of Canada 13. A Sea Child 14. The Ships of Saint John 15. The Ships of Yule 16. A Song before Sailing 17. The Vagabonds 18. White Nassau 19. The Winter Scene Notes on Life and Works Born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, in the Canadian Maritimes, and educated at the University of New Brunswick, Carman authored more than 50 volumes of poetry in his lifetime and became recognized, after his coast-to-coast tour in 1921 reading his poetry, as Canada's unofficial poet laureate. His career as a man of letters was never in doubt for this first cousin of the poet Charles G. D. Roberts. Carman studied at Harvard 1886-88 and stayed on in the United States afterwards, working as a literary journalist in New York. The verse in his first book, Low Tide on Grand Pré (1893), was characteristic of his entire output in its love of nature and of the Romantic tradition. In 1922, the year after his tour, he and Lorne Pierce published Our Canadian Literature: Representative Verse, English and French. Blance Hume transcribed and edited his Talks on Poetry and Life, delivered at the University of http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/56.html 3/10/2008 KPU -- Selected Poetry or Bliss Carman (1861-1929) Page 2 of 2 Toronto in December 1925 (Toronto: Ryerson Press, 1926; PS 8455 A7A16 Robarts Library). Carman became a corresponding member of the Royal Society of Canada the year of these talks, although he lived in New Canaan, Connecticut, for most of his life after 1909. Odell Shepard published a bibliography of his works in Bliss Carman (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1923; PS 8455 A7Z765 Robarts Library). His letters have been edited by H. Pearson Gundy (Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 1981; PS 8455 A7Z48 Robarts Library) and his correspondence with Margaret Lawrence from 1927 to 1929 by D. M. R. Bentley and Margaret Maciejewski (London, Ont.: Canadian Poetry Press, 1995; PS 8455 A7Z489 Robarts Library). Muriel Miller's Bliss Carman: Quest and Revolt (St. John's, Newfoundland: Jesperson Press, 1985; PS 8455 A7Z65 Robarts Library) is the standard biography. Biographical information Given name: Bliss Family name: Carman Birth date: 1861 Death date: 1929 Your comments and questions are welcomed. All contents copyright © RPO Editors, Department of English, and University of Toronto Press 1994-2002 RPO is hosted by the University of Toronto Libraries. http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poet/56.html 3/10/2008 KPU -- Bliss Carman : Low lide on Grand Pré Page 1 of 2 REPRESENTATIVE POETRY ONLINE Poet Index Poem Index Random Search Introduction Timeline Calendar Glossary Criticism Bibliography RPO Canadian Poetry UTEL Bliss Carman (1861-1929) Low Tide on Grand Pré 1 The sun goes down, and over all 2 These barren reaches by the tide 3 Such unelusive glories fall, 4 I almost dream they yet will bide 5 Until the coming of the tide. 6 And yet I know that not for us, 7 By any ecstasy of dream, 8 He lingers to keep luminous 9 A little while the grievous stream, 10 Which frets, uncomforted of dream-- 11 A grievous stream, that to and fro 12 Athrough the fields of Acadie 13 Goes wandering, as if to know 14 Why one beloved face should be 15 So long from home and Acadie. 16 Was it a year or lives ago 17 We took the grasses in our hands, 18 And caught the summer flying low 19 Over the waving meadow lands, 20 And held it there between our hands? 21 The while the river at our feet-- 22 A drowsy inland meadow stream-- 23 At set of sun the after-heat 24 Made running gold, and in the gleam 25 We freed our birch upon the stream. 26 There down along the elms at dusk 27 We lifted dripping blade to drift, 28 Through twilight scented fine like musk, 29 Where night and gloom awhile uplift, 30 Nor sunder soul and soul adrift. Note * : 31 And that we took into our hands 32 Spirit of life or subtler thing-- Only poem included in the Dorr Papers. http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/425.html 3/10/2008 KPU Carman : LOW lide on urana Pre Page L of L 33 Breathed on us there, and loosed the bands 34 Of death, and taught us, whispering, 35 The secret of some wonder-thing. 36 Then all your face grew light, and seemed 37 To hold the shadow of the sun; 38 The evening faltered, and I deemed 39 That time was ripe, and years had done 40 Their wheeling underneath the sun. 41 So all desire and all regret, 42 And fear and memory, were naught; 43 One to remember or forget 44 The keen delight our hands had caught; 45 Morrow and yesterday were naught. 46 The night has fallen, and the tide 47 Now and again comes drifting home, 48 Across these aching barrens wide, 49 A sigh like driven wind or foam: 50 In grief the flood is bursting home. Notes 1] Grand Pré, Nova Scotia, town and national park on the shores of the Minas Basin at the head of the Bay of Fundy, whose tide, at 15-16 meters, is among the highest in the world. 12] Acadia, the first French colony in North America (1604-), whose centres are Grand Pré and Port- Royal. Online text copyright © 2005, Ian Lancashire for the Department of English, University of Toronto. Published by the Web Development Group, Information Technology Services, University of Toronto Libraries. Original text: Bliss Carman, Low Tide on Grand Pré: A Book of Lyrics (New York: C. L. Webster, 1893), pp. 15-18. B-11 7495 Fisher Library. First publication date: March 1887 RPO poem editor: Ian Lancashire RP edition: RPO 1998. Recent editing: 4:2002/1/26 Composition date: June 1886 Form note: ababb Other poems by Bliss Carman Your comments and questions are welcomed. All contents copyright C RPO Editors, Department of English, and University of Toronto Press 1994-2002 RPO is hosted by the University of Toronto Libraries. http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/425.html 3/10/2008 William Francis Ganong Page I or 2 William Francis Ganong's field trips around the province of New Brunswick Search Advanced Search I Browse Images | Credits | Copyright Français William Francis Ganong's field trips around the province of New Brunswick By the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries most of the interior topography of New Brunswick had not yet been completely surveyed. While the aboriginal community had an intimate knowledge of the intricate waterways and expansive forests, little mapping or charting had been undertaken. Driven by a great affection for his home province, Dr. William Francis Ganong (1864-1941) explored and documented many of these aspects of New Brunswick. Part of his invaluable recording is the photographs that he took as memory aids from the long, and often arduous, canoe trips that he undertook. At this period, amateur photography was in its infancy and Ganong took advantage of the portable camera and roll film that 1-131 were just being made available to the general public. What could not be controlled however, were the upset canoes, dampness and erratic lighting conditions that inevitably give the images a sometimes less than ideal presentation. More importantly though, these small glimpses of captured light provide the earliest and most complete visual documentation of a region just prior to its transformation by modern industry. William Francis Ganong was born in Carleton (now West Saint John), New Brunswick, on 19 February 1864. He was one of the seven children of James Harvey Ganong (1841-1888) and Susan E. Brittain (1841-1927). Ganong married Jean Murray Carman (1863-1920), daughter of William Carman and Sophia Bliss, and sister to renowned GOD Canadian poet Bliss Carman, After her death, he married Anna Hobbet (1895-1977) of Eagle Grove, Indiana, and they had two children: (1861-1929) William Francis Ganong Jr. and Ann Hobbet Ganong. William Francis Ganong died on 7 September 1941 at his summer home in Saint John, New Brunswick. Ganong received his B.A. in 1884 and his Masters degree in 1886 from the University of New Brunswick. In 1887, he received an A.B. from Harvard and a PhD from the University of Munich in 1894. Ganong received two honourary degrees from the University of New Brunswick, a PhD in 1898 and an LLD in 1920. In 1889, Ganong was appointed an assistant instructor in botany at Harvard and in 1894 went to Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. For a short time he was a science teacher in Worcester, Massachussetts but returned to Smith College as a botany professor and was appointed director of the Botanical Gardens there. He retired in 1932. Ganong was a member of numerous scientific and scholarly 1-157 societies including the Natural History society of New Brunswick. He had published a considerable number of articles and works including a translation of Champlain's "Voyages to Acadia and New England" as well as writing on cartography, botany, physiography and nomenclature. http://website.nbm-mnb.ca/CAIN/english/william_ganong/ 3/10/2008 William Francis Ganong Page 2 of 2 William Francis Ganong had a great love for New Brunswick and a keen interest in both its history and natural history. By the age of seventeen, he started serious, first-hand explorations of the rivers and coastal areas as well as the flora and fauna of the province, frequently charting his own maps. Those explorations continued throughout his life, both on his own and with one or more companions including Arthur H. Pierce (1867-1914), Mauran I. Furbish (1864-1951) and George Upham Hay (1843-1913). It is these trips that are documented in this virtual exhibition. The titles of the photographs are based on the cryptic and sometimes almost illegible inscriptions that Ganong provided for the images. Where particular place names could be determined, the current accepted spelling has been used. Otherwise, Ganong's working descriptive, or local place names have been used. In addition to the photographic record of his explorations throughout New Brunswick, Ganong and his companions kept written journals and field notes which describe their activities and the locations in more detail For this virtual exhibit, the field journal entries of A. H. Pierce have been included, where there are photographs to coincide with the entries. Arthur Henry Pierce earned his undergraduate from Amherst College in 1888 and then left for Europe on a fellowship for seven years. In 1899 he was awarded a doctorate by Harvard University, and in 1900 he joined the faculty of Smith College, where he and Ganong were colleagues. Pierce was also an avid outdoorsman, accompanying Ganong on seven field trips. http://website.nbm-mnb.ca/CAIN/english/william ganong/ 3/10/2008 The Botanic Garden of Smith College, History Page 1 of 3 The Botanic Garden of Smith College History All photos are clickable Home Visitor Info Smith College students studying botany in 1875 looked out from History Academics College Hall over the town of Northampton, but their back yard, the Conservatory former Lyman and Dewey homesteads, was a mix of gardens, orchard, Gardens hayfields, and pastures, where one might catch a glimpse of Paradise Collections Pond or President Seelye's milk cow. Lilly Hall of Science, believed to Photo Gallery be the first science-dedicated structure at a women's college, became the Plant Images new home for plant sciences and the college herbarium after 1886. Events Biology Hall, named Burton Hall on its completion in 1914, was Exhibitions constructed to accommodate growing numbers of students interested in Friends botany and zoology. Additionally, the Newsletter campus itself became a laboratory and Contributions classroom for the study of woody plants Gift Shop and was augmented with collections of Kids Corner exotic plants. Links Site Index To address the growth of the campus through the 1880s, Smith College hired the Brookline firm of Olmsted, Olmsted and Eliot to develop a comprehensive landscape scheme. Frederick Law Olmsted, senior member of the firm, is best remembered for designing Central Park in New York City and the Boston park system. The Olmsted plan dated February 1893 included curving drives and walkways, open spaces with specimen trees, and vistas over Paradise Pond through wooded groves. Olmsted also provided planting lists of diverse trees, shrubs, herbs, and aquatic and marsh plants. The Botanic Garden of Smith College formally took shape under William Francis Ganong, who was appointed in May 1894 as professor of botany and director of the Botanic Garden (positions he held until his retirement from Smith in 1932), and Edward J. Canning, who was hired in summer 1894 as head gardener. http://www.smith.edu/garden/History/history.html 3/10/2008