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The Leonard Feeney Omnibus-HC

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This collection  of poems and other literary works of Father Feeney is not a complete collection, but a large one nonetheless. It includes almost all of four of his best books: Survival Till Seventeen, Fish on Friday, In Towns and Little Towns, and You’d Better Come Quietly, as well as some of his other works. You will rarely encounter another modern Catholic poet and writer with such depth of faith and dramatic power with words as Father Leonard Feeney. Frank Sheed, of Sheed & Ward, his original publisher and a well-known Catholic writer himself, once labeled him “America’s Chesterton”. Coming from a Catholic Englishman, that is a grand compliment indeed for an American Irishman!

“The priest more than a member of any other profession, understands human nature profoundly, and when this is coupled with literary ability, wittily and tolerantly presented, the product is truly delightful.”   —Commonweal
“Father Feeney has… revealed the playfulness of his wit, the keenness of his observing eyes, the tenderness of his Irish heart . . .
and above all the dramatic power which is his…”      —America
“We need   more like him. His laughter is as light as his faith is deep.”      —Boston Evening Transcript: under the heading “Favorite Poet”

THE AMERICAN ECCLESIASTICAL REVIEW, Feb, 1944.

The Leonard Feeney Omnibus -  A Collection of Prose and Verse Old and New

Most of the material in this Omnibus has been printed before. Yet the publishers have done the cause of American letters a considerable service in bringing out this collection. Certainly the years to come will see more extensive editions of Father Feeney’s works. We are fortunate in having this much now. This Omnibus, small though it is, is far more effective than little books and scattered articles in bringing us to appreciate the foremost man of letters in Catholic America.

His trained and gifted mind has caught what is best in our own life scene. The Omnibus shows us Catholic loyalty in a barber shop, the theological virtues on the Boston and Albany, apologetics on the New York, New Haven and Hartford, and God’s charity in Lynn and Paris. The things he saw are the things we all might have seen, and which we know better because he has seen them.

Father Feeney as an author we reverence and acclaim. However we are considerably less enthusiastic about his prowess as an editor. It is difficult in the extreme to pardon a man who left “The Brown Derby” out of a Leonard Feeney Omnibus.

Msgr. JOSEPH CLIFFORD FENTON

 

PREFACE

This book contains the things I like best of all I have written up til 1943. It does not contain the things I hope to write from now
on. And so, though it is called an “omnibus,” it is not to be taken as an “obituary.”
 My publishers have been very kind in letting me make my own choices. A number of things have been omitted, over protest of my friends. But a poet—if such I be—must ultimately be his own critic, his own chooser. It is one of the few freedoms left a man in this merciless age.
 I am not, as one critic has kindly suggested, “a poet of many personalities.” I am a poet of one personality who has had many moods. I realize I could have made a much greater reputation for myself if I had written everything in one groove. But in this matter I took a cue from God the Father—who is the poet, the maker, in God—and who could have made a much greater reputation for Himself if He had made the lion and omitted the mosquito.
 Other than this, I offer no apologies.
L. F.           August 6th, 1943.

 

  
Sketches

Fish on Friday   
Good Christians   
Skheenarinka   
A Madonna of the Kitchen   
Evangeline   
Asthore   
The Journey   
Joe Pallavicino   
Charlie Maloney   
Little Slipper Street   
This Little Thing   
Cousin Willie   
Instructions for Meeting Mrs. Nolan   
The Problem Mind   
A Sympathetic Summary   
Mary Favorite   


Outlines

You’d Better Come Quietly   
The Blessed Sacrament Explained to Barbara   
Do Not Go to Bethlehem to Find the Obvious   
Dialogue With an Angel   
The Blessed Trinity Explained to Thomas Butler   
The Metaphysics of Chesterton   
Notes

Two Who Should Be Friends  
Clean Literature   
How You Lost Your Faith   
The Catholic and His Priest   
The Menace of Puns   
Notes on Names   
Water at Work   
Fortitude et Laetitia   
The Old Man   


Survival Till Seventeen

The Voice   
Gentlemen With a Grudge   
Design for a Grecian Urn   
Sunday Evenings   
Lesson from the Little Mosquito   
Wing Lee, Hand Laundry   
Heaven in a Pond   
Alicia   
Art   
The Poets and the Mystics   
Poetry   
Childhood   
The Exile   
The Imagination Guy   
The Classics   
Farewell Without Tears   
The First Command   


Poems

The Cloud   
Sun and Moon   
The Kite   
The Whistler   
The Buttercup   
The Ewe   
The Doves   
Tears   
After the Shower   
Four Apostrophes to Silence   
The Incomparable   
Three Soldiers   
The Evergreen   
Rabbit   
Snail   
The Moth   
The Rose   
Reflection   
Boundaries   
The Poet   
I Burned My Bridges   
Entia Multiplicanda   
Reveille   
Virgin Most Prudent   
After the Little Elevation   
Resurrection   
Advice to Verse-Makers   
In the Antiques Shop   
Finale   
Resignation at Midnight   
Something Within Me   
Song For A Listener   


Verse

Metaphysics in the Marketplace   
After This, Our Exile   
Love Is a Loyalty   
The Way of the Cross   
Sister Jeremy   
The Dove   
The Bee   
Poor Turkey   
Sheep Ritual   
The Whale   
Brief Litany   
The Creature Feature   
Admiring Maura   
Aunt Abigail   
The Devil’s Man   
The Fairyland   
To an Infant   
The Donkey   
Stanzas for the Unastonishable   
Reflection on a Flea   
Coward Noel   
The Piano Tuner   
The Milkman   
Jeremy   
Nightly Outrage   
Mrs. Whittle   
A Prayer for Protestants   
Hair Ribbons   
St. Joseph’s Christmas   
Warning to Contemplatives   
The Mistress of Novices   
O Love Ave Verum Corpus Natum   
Farewell   
Buzz, a Book Review   
And Still…   

 

A few poems...

The Rose
Perfume and petal
Are qualities
That test love’s mettle
With too much ease.

Bramble and briar
Will soon discover
Who is the liar
And who the lover.

 

The Donkey
I saw a donkey at a fair
When sounds and songs were in the air;
But he no note interpreted
Of what the people sang or said.

Hitched by a halter to a rail,
He twitched his ears and twirled his tail;
In every lineament and line
He was completely asinine.

Though I had heard in local halls
Some eulogies on animals,
I thought it would be utter blindness
To show him any sort of kindness.

It seemed to me that God had meant
To make him unintelligent,
And wanted us to keep our places,
I in my clothes, he in his traces.

And so I turned my mind to things
Like banners, balls, balloons and rings,
For which I had to pay my share
And went on purpose to a fair.
 But down the mid-ways while I went
On all the pageantry intent,
I stopped, and started to remember
A little stable in December,

Battered by wind and swathed in snow,
Nearly two thousand years ago,
When one poor creature like to this
Saw Mary give her Child a kiss.

So back I sauntered to the rail,
And stared at him from head to tail,
And gave his cheek a little pat,
And simply let it go at that.

 

The Way of the Cross
Along the dark aisles
Of a chapel dim,
The little lame girl
Drags her withered limb.

And all alone she searches
The shadows on the walls,
To find the three pictures
Where Jesus falls.

 

 

 

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