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By the Aurelian Wall and Other Elegies

This is a small volume of beautiful melancholy verses by Canadian poet Bliss Carman. The poems share a common theme which is the death of persons known and unknown to the poet. - Summary by Carolin (1 hr 15 min)

Chapters

By the Aurelian Wall

The White Gull

The Country of Har

To Richard Lovelace

A Seamark

The Word of the Water

Phillips Brooks

John Eliot Bowen

Henry George

Ilicet

To Raphael

To P. V.

A Norse Child’s Requiem

In the Heart of the Hills

An Afterword

Seven Wind Songs

Andrew Straton

The Grave-Tree