02333cam a22003493u 450000100060000000300070000600500170001300600020003000700050003200800410003701000130007804000110009104100170010205000070011910000300012624500210015626400510017730000470022833600260027533700260030133800360032750000310036350801930039452011160058753400660170365300360176965300220180565300260182785600680185385600430192199900190196477609UtSlPG20260610134810.0mcr n260607r20261899utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d  a00001002  aUtSlPG 7aen2iso639-1 4aPS1 aCarman, Bliss,d1861-192912aA winter holiday 1aSalt Lake City, UT :bProject Gutenberg,c2026  a1 online resource :bmultiple file formats  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  aRelease date is 2026-01-02  aCharlene 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)  aA 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.)  pOriginally published:cBoston: Small, Maynard & Company, 1899  aCanadian poetry -- 19th century  aBahamas -- Poetry  aNew England -- Poetry4 uhttps://archive.org/details/winterholiday00car/page/n7/mode/2up40uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77609  c118329d118329