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Issue Details: First known date: 1983... 1983 The Bing Book of Verse : Poems in Memory of Bing Crosby
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Notes

  • Epigraphs:

    We look before and after,
    And pine for what is not:
    Our sincerest laughter
    With some pain is fraught;
    Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.
    --Shelley, To a Syklark

    Adieu! Adieu! thy plaintive anthem fades
    Past the near meadows, over the still stream,
    Up the hill-side; and now 'tis buried deep
    In the next valley-glades:
    Was it a vision, or a waking dream?
    Fled is that music:- Do I wake or sleep?
    --Keats, Ode to a Nightingale

    Such harmony is in immortal souls.
    --Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, v.i.63.

Contents

* Contents derived from the Melbourne, Victoria,:A. G. Paradissis , 1983 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Bing Crosby (1903-1977)i"...sweet singer", A. G. Paradissis , single work poetry (p. 13)
Bing Crosby's Last Concerti"with loud final", A. G. Paradissis , single work poetry (p. 14-17)
Our Thoughts to Tacoma, Washington, Two Years Later 14 October 1979i"...great semi-trailers heavy our thoughts", A. G. Paradissis , single work poetry (p. 19)
In a City Avenuei"we are walking", A. G. Paradissis , single work poetry (p. 21)
Untitledi"singing", A. G. Paradissis , single work poetry (p. 23-24)
Memory Scraps, A. G. Paradissis , sequence poetry (p. 23-48)
Firsti"light beams blink", A. G. Paradissis , single work poetry (p. 25-26)
Secondi"On long lawns tongues are trimming", A. G. Paradissis , single work poetry (p. 27-29)
Thirdi"it was a surly clinging", A. G. Paradissis , single work poetry (p. 31-35)
Fourthi"When Tracy Lord divorced her man", A. G. Paradissis , single work poetry (p. 37-39)
Fifthi"Pete Garvey the newspaper man,", A. G. Paradissis , single work poetry (p. 41-45)
Sixthi"Walking dim paths that turn back to the past", A. G. Paradissis , single work poetry (p. 47-48)
Sonnet after the Curtaini"...tears and applause now that the curtain has", A. G. Paradissis , single work poetry (p. 49)
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