Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. (1833–1908). A Victorian Anthology, 1837–1895. 1895.

Bliss Carman 1861–1929

Envoy

Carman-B

HAVE little care that Life is brief,

And less that Art is long.

Success is in the silences

Though Fame is in the song.

With the Orient in her eyes,

Life my mistress lured me on.

“Knowledge,” said that look of hers,

“Shall be yours when all is done.”

Like a pomegranate in halves,

“Drink me,” said that mouth of hers,

And I drank who now am here

Where my dust with dust confers.