For These Moments
'Life gives
these
us
moments, and for
moments we
give our lives."
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For These Moments
'Life gives
these
us
moments, and for
moments we
give our lives."
^ol Anese
UYioraents
BY ELEANOR GRAHAM
^^^^M,^^ /W.e-.6_^
Designed and Printed
at Brattleboro
By The Stephen Daye MDCCCCXXXIX
Press
COPYRIGHT,
1939,
The author thanks
New
Yorker,
the editors of
,
and
other
reprint
magazines
poems
The Saturday Evening
Good Housekeeping, The
This Week, Parents' The
that
GRAHAM
BY ELEANOR
New
and
originally
Ladies'
York Times, All
newspapers
for
Post,
Home
The
Journal,
Story, Yankee,
permission
to
appeared in their publications.
Typography by Carolyn Sherman
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA BY THE VERMONT PRINTING COMPANY BRATTLEBORO •
J,o ^Jriotnei
* *
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Introduction
Several years ago,
I
was among those privileged
attend an open air concert on a sumptuous estate.
to
At
the climax of the entertainment, a distinguished and
expensive baritone w^as intoning w^hat sounded like a particularly lugubrious dirge,
when
nearby thicket began to warble and
a bobolink in a trill
just received assurance that the joy of
he had
June would
last
am confident that I was not the only one in audience who vastly preferred the bobolink, and
forever.
the
as if
I
even though the wellbred applause went to the baritone,
it is
delight
my
and
more more enduringly and much more
guess that the bird's song gave far is
warmly remembered. In Eleanor Graham's
poems
ripple of the bobolink, though
note of the
wood
tentious, so true.
expression of a
They know them
thrush. I
I
sometimes catch a
more often
the pure
are so clear, so unpreto be the
spontaneous
fine, well-trained, sensitive
mind and
of a nature as sweet and lovely as a mountain spring,
and
I
am
sure that they will delight
genuine feeling and
lyric
many with
their
charm.
Arthur Guiterman. Hillhouse Arlington, Vermont.
August, 1939.
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^^
Contents
Prima Donna
Toast
78
Window to Heaven The
Little
79 80
House
For Mary Anne
81
Man-Child
82
Exhortation
83
Bride
84
Thrift Little
85
Brother
86
Philanderer
87
Pretend
88
Spring in the City
89
»/ne Perfect Srvound
The Children Would There Be Tears ? To a Cigarette
94
Chimneys
96
Kinship
97
93 95
Questions
98
Judgment
99 100
On
Hearing of a Suicide Seeking Request
^ ^ ^
101
102
— Poet to Reader Black on white,
Made
my
letters trace a pattern
for your delight.
And you
will see,
Beyond
the page, beyond the careful phrases,
All that
I
cannot say and cannot be.
Design is easy; meaning, difficult; cannot interpret any dream. My poems are but pictures for your fancy I build the structure; you will find the theme.
And I
.?