Songs, Sighs and Curses
Reading edition
By Adolf Wolff
SEPTEMBER 1913
Published by THE GLEBE at Ridgefield, New Jersey
Copyright, 1913 By Adolf Wolff.
TO LEONARD D. ABBOTT.
Dear Friend:—To whom else than to you can I dedicate this little wreath of poems? Weeds or flowers, without you, they would not have been. Your interest, your sympathy, your appreciation were the sunshine and rain that brought them forth—to blossom for a moment or forever.
ADOLF WOLFF.
NOTE.—All the poems in this volume were written in the year 1912-13. When asked in what sequence he would arrange his poems, Wolff threw the manuscripts in the air, saying, “Let Fate decide.” They now appear in the order in which they were picked up from the floor. This is true of all except the proem and those comprising the group under the heading “To One Who Could Not Love,” which appear towards the end of the volume.