Research Catalog

Title

The house of falling leaves : with other poems / by William Stanley Braithwaite.

Author

Braithwaite, William Stanley, 1878-1962.

Publication

Boston : John W. Luce and Company, 1908.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Knowles, Frederic Lawrence, 1869-1905
• John W. Luce and Company, publisher.
• Colonial Press (Boston, Mass.), electrotyper, printer.
• C.H. Simonds & Co., electrotyper, printer.

Description

xi, [1], 13-112 p.; 20 cm.

Donor/Sponsor

Home to Harlem Project funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Subjects

• Black author
• Authors' autographs (Provenance)
• American poetry > African American authors

Genre/Form

Authors' autographs (Provenance)

Note

• With a half-title page that includes dedication: "In Memoriam Frederic Lawrence Knowles, obiit Sept. 19, 1905."
• Publisher's advertisement on verso of half-title page.
• "Copyright, 1908, by William Stanley Braithwaite. Published, May, 1908."--verso of title page.
• "Colonial Press. Electrotyped and Printed by C.H. Simonds & Co. Boston, U.S.A."--printer statement, verso of title page.
• "For courteous permission to reprint certain poems in this collection, acknowledgement ... to the editors of the following magazines: The Century, Book News Monthly, The Christian Endeavor World, The Voice, The New England Magazine, The American Magazine, and The New York Times Saturday Review of Books."--p. [vii].

Provenance (note)

• inscribed: in ink on title page "William Stanley Braithwaite." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926.

Contents

The house of falling leaves -- My thoughts go marching like an armed host -- Mater triumphalis -- Messengers of dreams -- A white road -- To Arthur Upson -- On the death of Thomas Bailey Aldrich -- Golden moonrise -- Madame of dreams -- To Fiona -- To Fiona -- Off the New England coast -- October XXIX, 1795 -- Song of a Syrian lace seller -- Nympholepsy -- To Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- Aprilian rhapsody -- A song of living -- Ave and vale -- Hoc erat in votis -- In the public garden -- Rain in summer -- The eternal self -- The house of death -- At Newport -- Sic vita -- A song of the sixth month -- From the crowd -- Love leads home -- The full hope -- A little while before farewell -- To beauty -- Song: To-day and to-morrow -- Late August -- Malagueña -- Song: As a new-made bride -- Under the stars -- Tears -- Song -- A visit to the Oak Lodge -- Song: The trail of stars -- Thomas Wentworth Higginson -- William Dean Howells -- The Shepherd of the flock of dreams -- The first born -- La belle de Demerara -- The annunciation of the Virgin -- Golden hair -- Gray dawn -- In the athenaeum -- As silent through the world she goes -- Enigmas -- Sir Walter Raleigh -- On Blake's "Songs of innocence" -- The book of love -- To Laurence Hope -- This is my life -- Kingdoms and heirs -- To Roy Rolfe Gilson -- White magic: an ode -- On revisiting Newport Beach -- Off shore -- L'envoi.

Call Number

Sc Rare 811-B (Braithwaite, W. S. House of falling leaves)

LCCN

08027527

OCLC

• 2682880
• NYPGR2682880-B

Author

Braithwaite, William Stanley, 1878-1962.

Title

The house of falling leaves : with other poems / by William Stanley Braithwaite.

Imprint

Boston : John W. Luce and Company, 1908.

Provenance

Copy in Sc Rare 811-B (accession no. B547597) inscribed: in ink on title page "William Stanley Braithwaite." ; This copy is part of the original collection purchased from Arthur A. Schomburg in 1926. NN

Local Note

Copy in Sc Rare 811-B imperfect; lacking first leaf with half-title page and publisher's advertisement on verso. NN

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Local Subject

Black author.

Added Author

Knowles, Frederic Lawrence, 1869-1905, dedicatee.

John W. Luce and Company, publisher.

Colonial Press (Boston, Mass.), electrotyper, printer.

C.H. Simonds & Co., electrotyper, printer.

Braithwaite, William Stanley, 1878-1962, inscriber.

Schomburg, Arthur Alfonso, 1874-1938, former owner.

Research Call Number

Sc Rare 811-B (Braithwaite, W. S. House of falling leaves)

NBI (Braithwaite, W. S. B. House of falling leaves)