Who is Josephine Preston Peabody

Josephine Preston Peabody (May 30, 1874 – December 4, 1922) was an American poet and dramatist.

Biography

Peabody was born in New York and educated at the Girls' Latin School, Boston, and at Radcliffe College.In 1898 she was introduced to fifteen-year-old Khalil Gibran by Fred Holland Day, the American photographer and co-founder of the Copeland-Day publishing house, at an art exhibition. Shortly thereafter Gibran returned to Lebanon but the pair continued to correspond.From 1901 to 1903 she was instructor in English at Wellesley. The Stratford-on-Avon prize went to her in 1909 for her drama The Piper, which was produced in England in 1910; and in America at the New Theatre, New York City, in 1911. Composer Grace Chadbourne used Peabody's text for her songs "Gree...
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Josephine Preston Peabody Poems

  • The Prophet
    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; ...
  • The Long Lane
    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: ...
  • Canticle Of The Babe
    I

    Over the broken world, the dark gone by,
    Horror of outcast darkness torn with wars; ...
  • The Feaster
    Oh, who will hush that cry outside the doors,
    While we are glad within?
    Go forth, go forth, all you my servitors;
    (And gather close, my kin.) ...
  • Alison's Mother To The Brook
    Brook, of the listening grass,
    Brook of the sun-fleckt wings,
    Brook of the same wild way and flickering spell!
    Must you begone? Will you forever pass, ...
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Marysia_cc: good morning the journey. illustration by elizabeth shippen green, for a poem by josephine preston peabody, 1903
100yearsagonews: dec. 4, 1922: poet and playwright josephine preston peabody dies at home in cambridge, mass., at 47 after an illness. she had published her first poem at age 14, and maintained many years of correspondence with kahlil gibran, who drew this portrait of her.
Book_addict: happy birthday to poet and playwright josephine preston peabody (may 30, 1874), author of “the singing man” (1911).
Historicwomens: "the journey", by american illustrator elizabeth shippen green, for a series of poems by american poet and dramatist, josephine preston peabody, 1903
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