Josephine Preston Peabody White Poems

  • 1.
    All day long he kept the sheep:--
    Far and early, from the crowd,
    On the hills from steep to steep,
    Where the silence cried aloud;
    ...
  • 2.
    All through the summer night, down the long lane in flower,
    The moon-white lane,
    All through the summer night,--dim as a shower,
    Glimmer and fade the Twain:
    ...
  • 3.
    I

    Over the broken world, the dark gone by,
    Horror of outcast darkness torn with wars;
    ...
  • 4.
    Beautiful Mother, I have toiled all day;
    And I am wearied. And the day is done.
    Now, while the wild brooks run
    Soft by the furrows--fading, gold to gray,
    ...
  • 5.
    Yes, Nightingale, through all the summer-time
    We followed on, from moon to golden moon;
    From where Salerno day-dreams in the noon,
    And the far rose of Pæstum once did climb.
    ...
  • 6.
    The hills far-off were blue, blue,
    The hills at hand were brown;
    And all the herd-bells called to me
    As I came by the down.
    ...
  • 7.
    The islands called me far away,
    The valleys called me home.
    The rivers with a silver voice
    Drew on my heart to come.
    ...
Total 7 White Poems by Josephine Preston Peabody

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The Wild Old Wicked Man
 by William Butler Yeats

Because I am mad about women
I am mad about the hills,'
Said that wild old wicked man
Who travels where God wills.
'Not to die on the straw at home.
Those hands to close these eyes,
That is all I ask, my dear,
From the old man in the skies.
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