Fiddler's Farewell

by Leonora Speyer

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FIDDLER'S FAREWELL

LEONORA SPEYER

 

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FIDDLER'S FAREWELL

 

 

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NEW YORK

ALFRED · A · KNOPF

MCMXXVI

COPYRIGHT, 1926, BY ALFRED A. KNOPF, INC.

 

Manufactured in the United States of America

TO MY HUSBAND

"His smile, it listens well and long,
His sadness, charitable to mirth,
His silence, hospitable to song."

 (not listed in original)

• Part I
  • Ballad of a Lost House 11
• Part II
  • Duet 21
  • I'll Be Your Epitaph 23
  • Third Floor Landing 24
  • Therapy 25
  • Witch 29
  • Deep Sea Fishing 30
  • Onlooker 31
  • Affinity 32
  • Cantares 33
  • She Says; being Forbidden! 34
  • Little Lover 35
  • Kleptomaniac 36
  • To a Song of Sappho Discovered in Egypt 38
  • Hyacinths 40
  • The Story as I Understand It 42
  • Two Passionate Ones Part 44
  • This City Wind 46
• Part III
  • I Heard . . . 49
  • October Trees 51
  • New England Cottage 52
  • Migration 54
  • Sand-Pipings 55
  • King's Garden 57
  • Abrigada 59
• Part IV
  • I Saw the Piper 67
  • Italian Quatrains
    • Naples 71
    • Pompeii 73
    • Rome 75
    • Paganini's Violins 76
  • Bavarian Roadside 77
  • "Hark! Hark!" 78
  • Bagpipe Player 79
  • Oberammergau 80
  • One Version 82
  • Protest in Passing 83
  • Saul! Saul! 84
• Part V
  • You Gave Me Wings . . . 87
  • Fiddler's Farewell 89
• Part VI
  • Measure Me, Sky! . . . 99
  • Of Mountains 101
  • Let not My Death . . . 115
• Acknowledgements
• Contents (alphabetical)

The author wishes to thank the following magazines for permission to reprint the contents of this book:

The Century Magazine, the North American Review, the Nation, the American Mercury, Chicago Poetry, Voices, the Measure, the Forum, Contemporary Verse, Rhythmus, the Freeman, the Literary Supplement of the New York Evening Post, the Saturday Review, the Bookman, Commonweal and the Lyric.

Also the Poetry Society of South Carolina, which awarded the poem "Oberammergau" the Blindman Prize for 1923.

"Fiddler's Farewell" was read at the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Va., before the Alpha Chapter of the Phi Beta Kappa at the author's initiation as a member of that Society.

"The Ballad of a Lost House" was awarded the Guarantor's Prize for 1925 by Poetry: A Magazine of Verse.

CONTENTS

 

Abrigada		59
Affinity		32
Bagpipe Player		79
Ballad of a Lost House		11
Bavarian Roadside		77
Cantares		33
Deep Sea Fishing		30
Duet		21
Fiddler's Farewell		89
"Hark! Hark!"		78
Hyacinths		40
I Heard . . .		49
I'll Be Your Epitaph		23
I Saw the Piper		67
King's Garden		57
Let not My Death . . .		115
Little Lover		35
Measure Me, Sky! . . .		99
Migration		54
Naples		71
New England Cottage		52
Oberammergau		80
October Trees		51
Of Mountains		101
One Version		82
Onlooker		31
Paganini's Violins		76
Pompeii		73
Protest in Passing		83
Rome		75
Sand-Pipings		55
Saul! Saul!		84
She Says; being Forbidden!		34
Therapy		25
The Story as I Understand It		42
Third Floor Landing		24
This City Wind		46
To a Song of Sappho Discovered in Egypt		38
Two Passionate Ones Part		44
Witch		29
You Gave Me Wings . . .		87

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