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I need to find the words to the poem "Swedish Angel" by Winfield Townley Scott. I've tried everything I can think of... libraries, bookstores, colleges. No luck. Does anyone have this poem or have access to it? It's making me crazy. Thanks for any help.

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Try this link. http://www.cellarstories.com/cgi-bin/csb455/037194.html

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$400??? I hope it is a long poem.

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I don't have that kind of money. But I appreciate the info. Anyone else have any ideas?

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Maybe it's gold plated. ')

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Haha, CI. You were smart to find that, but wouldn't it be awful if the poem weren't there?

Druid, with the name of the book, you should be able to go to your library and ask for an interlibrary loan. But here's another idea. There are a bunch of Scott's books on abebooks.com. You can email the booksellers and ask if the poem is in the book. Many of the books don't seem expensive at all, $5-20 for the first five pages of books for sale.

And now, please, you've piqued my interest in this poem. Will you (or whoever finds it first) please post it here? Thanks!

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Can you help me
Here are two anthologies which have it:

WILLIAMS, OSCAR (ED.) - NEW POEMS, 1942. PAGE 187

WILLIAMS, OSCAR (ED.) - A LITTLE TREASURY OF MODERN POETRY;
ENGLISH & AMERICAN. REVISED EDITION. PAGE 690

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that's one the library has
Thanks, tomkitten. My library has one of them you listed. I don't know how you found it, but I appreciate it.
Druid

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Can you help me
There's a great site called Litfinder. It includes poetry, essays, and short stories. It's accessible through public libraries (you can subscribe privately, but it's like $1,000 a year or so). If your library subscribes then all you need is your library card. I can access it by going to my local library network, and this provides home access. I use it all the time, and couldn't do my poetry reading programs without it. At least, I could, but it ain't easy.

This site includes the full text of many many poems, and citations alone for many many others, and you get your info via title, subject, author, and several other approaches.

The text of this particular poem wasn't given, but that's where I got the two references.

Also, Google is often a fairly good source for this sort of thing.

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Swedish Angels
The poem you want to read is in one of 15 books published by Scott. You will actually need to find a second peom in a second book to complete the search you are looking for. Bummer, I know.

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Tomkitten wrote:

Here are two anthologies which have it:

WILLIAMS, OSCAR (ED.) - NEW POEMS, 1942. PAGE 187

WILLIAMS, OSCAR (ED.) - A LITTLE TREASURY OF MODERN POETRY;
ENGLISH & AMERICAN. REVISED EDITION. PAGE 690

I had an Oscar William Little Treasury, Rev. ed., but it was only American, I was disappointed when I got to page 690, not having read the cover fully... to be in the midst of a boringly long poem about Wisconsin. sigh

dlxv -- Winfield Townley Scott was a mystic poet, is that what you're referring to? OIC, I think. I just found this on Google at blueline on the ezboards. TomKitten, I think we have some puzzle-players here!

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Please forgive the intrusion from a non-poet seeking some
wisdom about works by Winfield Townley Scott!

The reason I'm posting this note is to ask about a reference
to WTS works that appears in a puzzle I'm doing ... Games Magazine
December, 2003 ... sorry if my question is a bit cryptic, but
such is the nature of the puzzle!

The puzzle refers to "the wing size and the height of a creature of
the lowest order of the celestial hierarchy, of a certain Scandanavan
origin, from two works by Winfield Townley Scott"

I take this to mean the wing size and height of an angel of a
certain Scandanavian origin from two works by WTS ...

But there is where my search (thus far) has ended ... neither the
internet nor my local library is very forthcoming with works by
WTS, so I appeal to one who is more learned and well-read than I
in these areas.

Hoping you can help me!
Thanks in advance for any clue you can offer!

=Gneen

Ahhh, another mystery solved. Hmmm, so what is the wing size, I wonder, for creatures that dance on the head of a pin?

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