THE SINGING LEAVES A BOOK OF SONGS AND SPELLS BY JOSEPHINE PRESTON PEABODY

‘Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field. Let us lodge in the villages.’

Thanks are due to the editors of Harper’s Monthly, Scribner’s Magazine, and other periodicals, for their courteous permission to reprint many of the following poems.

SONGS AND SPELLS.

THE HOUSE AND THE ROAD.

CHARM: TO BE SAID IN THE SUN.

BEFORE MEAT.

SAD TRUTH.

GLAD TRUTH.

THE BIRD IN THE HAND.

WAKING.

THE MAGIC.

ROAD-SONG.

THE CEDARS.

ALMS.

THE INN.

SINS.

THE WATCHER.

TO SAD-HEART.

SONG AND NEED.

HERE’S APRIL.

THE COMING.

MUSIC.

EVER THE SAME.

MAYBE.

THE SONG OUTSIDE.

THE PASSERS-BY.

THE LITTLE PAST.

JOURNEY.

SUNSET.

THE BUSY CHILD.

CONCERNING LOVE.

COW-BELLS.

WIND.

THE MYSTIC.

THE MASTERPIECE.

LATE.

CAKES AND ALE.

EARLY.

THE YOUNG THINGS.

THE SAPLING.

THE HERO.

NESTS.

SIDE STREETS.

THE FIR-TREE.

EARLY-HEART.

BEAUTIFUL.

AFTER ALL.

VANITY, SAITH THE PREACHER.

THE TOP OF THE MORNING.

FORETHOUGHT.

UNSAID.

DANCE-TIME.

THE ENCHANTED SHEEP-FOLD.

YES, LOVE IS BLIND.

THE MORNING WAS SO BRIGHT.

THE TWO.

AFTER-THOUGHT.

OTHERS.

NEAR AND FAR.

FRIENDS ALL.

VANTAGE.

A SONG OF SOLOMON.

COUNSEL TO BEGGARS.

THE TWA CHEERLESS.

THE WALK.

REFRAINS.

OUTSIDE THE MUSIC.

THE FAIREST.

THE CHILD AND THE ANGEL.

READING FOR THE POOR.

THE BLIND ONE.

HOLIDAY.

THE FOOL.

DRUDGE.

THE YOUNGEST DRYAD.

COME BUY!

PRINCE CHARLIE.

THE MEETING.

THE COBBLER.

MIRACLE.

OPEN HOUSE.

O SLEEP, SLEEP, SLEEP!

THE CLOUD.

THE RAVENS.

NEIGHBORS.

THE MORNING SOUL.

THE HILL-TOP.

THE DOVES.

FOUND.

ALL HAIL.

THE ANOINTED.

EPILOGUE.

TO THE EVENING STAR.

TO HER BOOK.