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Josephine Preston Peabody

1874–1922

Josephine Preston Peabody (1874–1922) was an American poet and dramatist, born in New York City and educated in Boston and at Radcliffe College. She taught English at Wellesley College from 1901 to 1903, and later married Lionel Marks.

Her verse includes The Singing Leaves (1903) and The Singing Man (1911); her verse play The Piper won the Stratford-on-Avon prize in 1910.

Poems (144)

  1. The Nightingale unheard
  2. The House and the Road
  3. The Cloud
  4. Charm: To Be Said in the Sun
  5. Before Meat
  6. Sad Truth
  7. Glad Truth
  8. The Bird in the Hand
  9. Waking
  10. The Magic
  11. Road-Song
  12. The Cedars
  13. Alms
  14. The Inn
  15. Sins
  16. The Watcher
  17. To Sad-Heart
  18. Song and Need
  19. Here’s April
  20. The Coming
  21. Music
  22. Ever the Same
  23. Maybe
  24. The Song Outside
  25. The Passers-By
  26. Journey
  27. Sunset
  28. The Busy Child
  29. Concerning Love
  30. Cow-Bells
  31. Wind
  32. The Mystic
  33. The Masterpiece
  34. Late
  35. Cakes and Ale
  36. Early
  37. The Sapling
  38. The Hero
  39. Nests
  40. Side Streets
  41. The Fir-Tree
  42. Early-Heart
  43. Beautiful
  44. After All
  45. Vanity, Saith the Preacher
  46. The Top of the Morning
  47. Forethought
  48. Unsaid
  49. Dance-Time
  50. The Enchanted Sheep-Fold
  51. Yes, Love Is Blind
  52. The Morning Was So Bright
  53. The Two
  54. After-Thought
  55. Near and Far
  56. Friends All
  57. Vantage
  58. A Song of Solomon
  59. Counsel to Beggars
  60. The Twa Cheerless
  61. The Walk
  62. Refrains
  63. Outside the Music
  64. The Fairest
  65. The Child and the Angel
  66. Reading for the Poor
  67. The Blind One
  68. Holiday
  69. The Fool
  70. Drudge
  71. The Youngest Dryad
  72. Come Buy!
  73. Prince Charlie
  74. The Meeting
  75. The Cobbler
  76. Miracle
  77. Open House
  78. O Sleep, Sleep, Sleep!
  79. The Ravens
  80. Neighbors
  81. The Morning Soul
  82. The Hill-Top
  83. The Doves
  84. Found
  85. All Hail
  86. The Anointed
  87. To the Evening Star
  88. To Her Book
  89. Making a House
  90. Pigeons Out Walking
  91. Curls
  92. I Was Lost
  93. Polite Visitor
  94. Market
  95. Little Side-Streets
  96. Chestnut Stands
  97. The Play's the Thing
  98. Windows
  99. Ode on the Dog
  100. The Sorrows
  101. Secrets
  102. The Christmas Tree
  103. Candle-Light
  104. Thunder-Storms
  105. Church-Time
  106. Angels
  107. The Beggar-Man
  108. The Green Singing-Book
  109. Wing-Sprouts
  110. The Wind's East
  111. After-Word
  112. The Singing Man
  113. The Trees
  114. O, do you remember?--How it came to be?
  115. Rich Man, Poor Man
  116. But we did walk in Eden
  117. The Foundling
  118. Love sang to me. And I went down the stair
  119. The Feaster
  120. Belovèd, if the Moon could weep
  121. The Golden Shoes
  122. Noon at Pæstum
  123. Vestal Flame
  124. The dark had left no speech save hand-in-hand
  125. The Prophet
  126. The Long Lane
  127. Ah but, Belovèd, men may do
  128. Alison's Mother to the Brook
  129. You, Four Walls
  130. Canticle of the Babe
  131. And thou, Wayfaring Woman, whom I meet
  132. Gladness
  133. Envoi
  134. Words, words!
  135. Wood-Song
  136. Sonnet in a Garden
  137. A Changeling Grateful
  138. Caravans
  139. Isolation
  140. Rubric
  141. After Music
  142. O Far-off Rose!
  143. Cradle Song
  144. Spinning in April

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