Potential Titles: Josephine Preston Peabody

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Horror of outcast darkness torn - Josephine Preston Peabody "Canticle of the Babe"

Timeless agony of the white fire - Josephine Preston Peabody "Canticle of the Babe"

Heaped high by blinded Stars - Josephine Preston Peabody "Canticle of the Babe"

Out of the midmost Fire at last - Josephine Preston Peabody "Canticle of the Babe"

Cradled above unfathomable doom - Josephine Preston Peabody "Canticle of the Babe"

Their glories, scarlet-stained and golden - Josephine Preston Peabody "Canticle of the Babe"

All a crumbled dust beneath the feet - Josephine Preston Peabody "Canticle of the Babe"

And a lock of silver wool - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Enchanted Sheep-Fold"

Who will hush that cry outside the doors - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Feaster"

It is her silences binds me unreleased - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Feaster"

Her moonlit silence at the door - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Feaster"

And drown her keener silence, silver-sharp - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Feaster"

Viols of the night with colors lost in umber - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Feaster"

With sweet pain of richest world's desire - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Feaster"

Through my mirth and underneath my sleep - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Feaster"

To persuade iron and fire and marble - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Feaster"

The little fruitless seed deep sown - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Feaster"

Of fire within the midmost gloom - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Feaster"

Sapphires blue and wise with farthest twilight - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Feaster"

Weave me from all lovely dust - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Feaster"

These weltering alleys keep their outcast treasury - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Feaster"

Imperial hostage of the dust - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Foundling"

The unshapen dust of earth without a face - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Foundling"

The singing makes of me my own desire - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Foundling"

Even as a potter shaping Eden clay - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Foundling"

As the Sea weaves her path before the light - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Foundling"

Because of some commandment in the stars - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Foundling"

As a broken star out of the Dark - Josephine Preston Peabody "Gladness"

Over my heart's dark shuddering - Josephine Preston Peabody "Gladness"

Unearthly lights on everything - Josephine Preston Peabody "Gladness"

Torn treasure of my heart's Desire - Josephine Preston Peabody "Gladness"

The roads are blind with storm - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Golden Shoes"

Eyes that fail after a spring deferred - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Long Lane"

All the wild bloom and reach of dreams - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Long Lane"

Where peace never falls upon the air - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Long Lane"

And Sorrow may not sit alone - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Long Lane"

Must struggle even for memory - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Long Lane"

Through all the summer-time we followed - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Nightingale Unheard"

Where Salerno day-dreams in the noon - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Nightingale Unheard"

That speech toward which all hearts do ache - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Nightingale Unheard"

Forever writ in water of bright tears - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Nightingale Unheard"

Once shook to surging overflow - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Nightingale Unheard"

Still throbbing in the flooded shell of silence - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Nightingale Unheard"

But sing for whom the walls shut in - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Nightingale Unheard"

Lost in mutterings of the loom - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Nightingale Unheard"

Pay the devouring days their all - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Nightingale Unheard"

Parted indeed by more than makes the Sea - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Nightingale Unheard"

No memories abide to star the music-haunted dark - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Nightingale Unheard"

Where there haunt the world's forgotten - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Nightingale Unheard"

Where men reap not, though they plant - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Nightingale Unheard"

Who prayed a largesse where there was no dearth - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Nightingale Unheard"

The thousand broken names and way - Josephine Preston Peabody "Noon at Paestum"

Are but shards we wandered through - Josephine Preston Peabody "Noon at Paestum"

Through the dead smoke of myriad sacrifice - Josephine Preston Peabody "Noon at Paestum"

To pour wine to the Unknown God - Josephine Preston Peabody "Noon at Paestum"

Shone with the glow the sunset weaves - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Prophet"

Golden windows gazing from the shore - Josephine Preston Peabody "Rich Man, Poor Man"

Cobbled with the anguished stones that the thoroughfare disowns - Josephine Preston Peabody "Rich Man, Poor Man"

Stones they gave you for your bread - Josephine Preston Peabody "Rich Man, Poor Man"

Crowding in the dregs of doom - Josephine Preston Peabody "Rich Man, Poor Man"

Underneath the stones of weeping - Josephine Preston Peabody "Rich Man, Poor Man"

Where fevered lamps are set to stare - Josephine Preston Peabody "Rich Man, Poor Man"

Sang above the vineyards of the world - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Singing Man"

The vines with woven hands clambered and clung - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Singing Man"

Unfurled triumphing green above the barren lands - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Singing Man"

Laughed to scorn the ancient threat of deserts - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Singing Man"

To this last ambush of the Market-place - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Singing Man"

Only heart-beats loud with wrong - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Singing Man"

A fugitive whom the World forbids to live - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Singing Man"

Nightmare shot with waking pangs - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Singing Man"

Where we pen these unsightly shards of men - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Singing Man"

Measure in his broken strength - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Singing Man"

Gifts we stored the ages through - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Singing Man"

Monsters made of stone and nerve - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Singing Man"

To sweep away our guilt before the sky - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Singing Man"

Flooding the waste of this dishonored Star - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Singing Man"

Take all their mirth away with them - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Trees"

Woods with beckoning wonders new unfurled - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Trees"

The rulers of the darkness of this world - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Trees"

To see a reed so shaken by the wind - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Trees"

Warped outcasts of some human forestry - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Trees"

Two arms outstretched to fold the world - Josephine Preston Peabody "The Trees"

Keep the watch for stars and sun - Josephine Preston Peabody "Vestal Flame"

Once my dreams were wise - Josephine Preston Peabody "Vestal Flame"

These two hands to bar the wind - Josephine Preston Peabody "Vestal Flame"

To ward and worship all the light it sends - Josephine Preston Peabody "Vestal Flame"

In despite of all vigils set - Josephine Preston Peabody "Vestal Flame"


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