A winter holiday by Bliss Carman
A winter holiday by Bliss Carman is a collection of lyrical travel poems written in the late 19th century. The book evokes a winter escape from New England to the Bahamas, blending nature writing, travelogue, and reflections on art and color; its likely topic is how landscape, sea, and companionship restore the spirit. The sequence opens in Scituate, where the speaker visits Tortoise Shell, celebrates a painter friend nicknamed the Tortoise, and
savors firelit winter evenings with neighbors. It then follows a stormy ocean crossing to the Lucayan Islands, where Nassau’s light, markets, palms, and sea-gardens inspire meditations on how art should capture ideals beyond mere view. Flying fish become emblems of aspiration; a playful dialogue with a Bay Street vendor weighs the impossibility of buying beauty against the free power to love and see; and a meeting with a small migrant bird mirrors the poet’s own search for calm. The book closes with a radiant ode to white Nassau, set against the bleak North, as a place of order, ease, and healing color. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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| Author | Carman, Bliss, 1861-1929 |
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| LoC No. | 00001002 |
| Title | A winter holiday |
| Original Publication | Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1899. |
| Credits | Charlene Taylor, Terry Jeffress, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) |
| Language | English |
| LoC Class | PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature |
| Subject | Canadian poetry -- 19th century |
| Subject | Bahamas -- Poetry |
| Subject | New England -- Poetry |
| Category | Text |
| EBook-No. | 77609 |
| Release Date | Jan 2, 2026 |
| Copyright Status | Public domain in the USA. |
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