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The Singing Man - Josephine Preston Peabody
Josephine Preston Peabody
The Singing Man: A Book of Songs and Shadows
EAN 8596547332138
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Table of Contents
FOREWORD
THE SINGING MAN
THE SINGING MAN
THE TREES
RICH MAN, POOR MAN
THE FOUNDLING
THE FEASTER
THE GOLDEN SHOES
NOON AT PÆSTUM
VESTAL FLAME
THE PROPHET
THE LONG LANE
ALISON'S MOTHER TO THE BROOK
CANTICLE OF THE BABE
GLADNESS
THE NIGHTINGALE UNHEARD
ENVOI
FOREWORD
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We make our songs as we must, from fragments of the joy and sorrow of living. What Life itself may be, we cannot know till all men share the chance to know.
Until the day of some more equal portion, there is no human brightness unhaunted by this black shadow: the thought of those unnumbered who pay all the heavier cost of life, to live and die without knowledge that there is any Joy of Living.
No song could face such blackness, but for the will to share, and for hope of the day of sharing.
Upon that hope and that mindfulness, the poems in this book are linked together.
J.P.M.
4 October, 1911.
THE SINGING MAN 3
THE TREES 15
O, do you remember? How it came to be? 21
RICH MAN, POOR MAN 23
But we did walk in Eden 29
THE FOUNDLING 31
Love sang to me. And I went down the stair 35
THE FEASTER 37
Belovèd, if the moon could weep 43
THE GOLDEN SHOES 45
NOON AT PÆSTUM 47
VESTAL FLAME 48
The dark had left no speech save hand-in-hand 51
THE PROPHET 53
THE LONG LANE 56
Ah but, Belovèd, men may do 59
ALISON'S MOTHER TO THE BROOK 61
You, Four Walls, wall not in my heart! 65
CANTICLE OF THE BABE 67
And thou, Wayfaring Woman whom I meet 73
GLADNESS 75
THE NIGHTINGALE UNHEARD 81
Envoi 87
THE SINGING MAN
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AN ODE OF THE PORTION OF LABOR
'The profit of the Earth is for all.' —ECCLESIASTES.
THE SINGING MAN
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I
He sang above the vineyards of the world.
And after him the vines with woven hands
Clambered and clung, and everywhere unfurled
Triumphing green above the barren lands;
Till high as gardens grow, he climbed, he stood,
Sun-crowned with life and strength, and singing toil,
And looked upon his work; and it was good:
The corn, the wine, the oil.
He sang above the noon.