The Singing Man, A Book of Songs and Shadows

This is a collection of a number of long narrative poems. Ms. Peabody's poetry is marked by vivacity and living images. The poems contained in this collection are a great example of Ms. Peabody's style.


By : Josephine Preston Peabody (1874 - 1922)

01 - The Singing Man



02 - The Trees



03 - Rich Man, Poor Man



04 - The Foundling



05 - The Feaster



06 - The Golden Shoes



07 - Noon at Paestum



08 - Vestal Flame



09 - The Prophet



10 - The Long Lane



11 - Alison's Mother to the Brook



12 - Canticle of the Babe



13 - Gladness



14 - The Nightingale Unheard



15 - Envoi


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.

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