A Carman, Bliss 1861-1929 creator text utu 2026 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats 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.) Release date is 2026-01-02 Charlene Taylor, Terry Jeffress, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Originally published: Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1899 Canadian poetry -- 19th century Bahamas -- Poetry New England -- Poetry PS Boston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1899 00001002 https://archive.org/details/winterholiday00car/page/n7/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77609 https://archive.org/details/winterholiday00car/page/n7/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77609 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134810.0 77609