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514 THE COMMONWEAL March 14, 1941 All the Living Give Thanks We see the Spring come steady on, The maples bleeding leaves, wet flowers, Hepaticas, and bluets come Behind them only fourteen hours,...

THE WARM SPOT IN THE PASTURE (Verse) (August 1940)

August 2, 1940 THE COMMONWEAL 307 will be humanly unavoidable mistakes, and not mistakes arising from sheer...

THE SPOON (Verse) (February 1940)

Digging his cellar, they found a spoon A hundred years old. The same old tune Sung there once would be sung once more. Who was he to think a door Could shut him off from the old...

FAR TREES KEEP UP (Verse) (July 1939)

27 ~ THE COMMONWEAL July 7, I939 the finding that a state of war exists, would serve two very useful purposes. First, it would prevent the export of articles which are used exclusively or...

IT WAS LIKE SUNDAY (Verse) (March 1939)

It Was Like Sunday It was not Sunday, it was not, Yet it seemed Sunday, so he thought, Sunday, Sunday it must be, But it was a bell upon the sea. The fog had come in, that was it, Sweet and...

aSingers in France (verse) (April 1938)

April I, 1938 The Commonweal 631 racquet into the foreground of the picture, while his body lengthens for miles down a very long court, indeed. A Tchelitchev person seems to be about ten miles...

Beyond Age (verse) (January 1938)

290 The Commonweal January 7, 1938 block. An empire of 87,000,000 in turn could put into effect what Hungary alone is unable to do, the revision of the Trianon Treaty and the re-capture of...

Seguin (verse) (December 1937)

174 The Commonweal December lc), 1937 some of Lombardo's supporters were killed and wounded. At once his cohorts in Congress went into action, demanding the governor's scalp and the "exile, even...

Plowman without a Plow (verse) (December 1937)

15o The Commonweal December 3, 1937 technical schools of Northern Ontario to a selected group of 5o young men, designed to fit them for positions in the mining industry. (3) Rural training through...

Good Neighbor (verse) (November 1937)

40 The Commonweal November 5, 1937 account of what he had seen, only to find that he had been mistaken in every detail. He then said that he would write no more history. If he could not describe...

Three Fish-hawks (verse) (October 1937)

Three Fish-hawks I thought that fish-hawks were a part of me I left with boyhood by a reach of sea Too blue and beautiful to last, and here Were three of them together, this late year. Three...

Whippoorwill Time (verse) (April 1937)

Whippoorwill Time There's nothing like the time the whippoorwills Are tuning up for songs they never sing For a man to reckon up the things He's missed in life and so gone on in hopes. A...

The Basket (verse) (February 1937)

VERSE The Basket My slender son, who looks like me, Has often heard me tell how he Came in a basket his first year Across three thousand miles of sea. He has hunted till he found The basket, and...

Haytime Symphony (verse) (October 1936)

6l2 Haytime Symphony Twenty locusts scream in unison, Octaves up and up their trebles run And vanish, leaving utter silences, Except for sleepy language of hot bees And the endless clicking,...

After the Shower (verse) (September 1936)

442 The Commonweal September 4, 1936 After the Shower Trees are trees once more. The thunder Goes down the east, is almost under, Children are out. The shower is done. Earth kindles from...

Books (May 1936)

79 Books Life, But No Living The Yankee Bod-leys, by Naomi Lane Babson. New York: Reynal and Hitchcock. $2.50. THIS book belongs to the lusty and growing family of novels which endeavor to...

Books (April 1936)

April ~4, I936 T].te Commonweal 727 _ 00ks A Song of Strong Men The Hurricane. by Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall. Boston: Little, Brown and Company. $2.50. T HE THOUSANDS of readers and...

Going Starring (verse) (April 1936)

April x7, i936 T]ze Commonwea{ 679 differentlwhich can hardly occur until the physical body itself has fundamentally changed. So far, the effort to make a new kind of poetry, "pure poetry,"...

Man on the Street (verse) (March 1936)

The Commonweal March 27, 1936 be defense reactions. But one of the reasons why Like the snark, the student...

The Transient (verse) (February 1936)

426 The Commonweal February 14, 193 as individual justice, and both distributive...

Books (December 1935)

December 13, 1935 The Commonweal 19 ,.oaks U.ALTMMiAN CO. A Family...

Paths in the Dew (verse) (November 1935)

Tile Commonweal November ~5, I935 bonus $46I,ooo: a total of $6o5,ooo. In I93o, he got $I68,OOO as a salary and $8420oo as a bonus: a total of $i,oio,ooo. For I93 I, he received $i6o,ooo in...

Of All the Days (verse) (September 1935)

Of All the Days Of all the days he had breathed through, That was the fragrantest, he knew. It had simple parts to it. A door stood open just a bit. Beyond was sunlight. It was hot, The...

The Secret (verse) (April 1935)

The Secret A secret is a secret, any size. Sometimes it may be filling for good pies, Powdered blue, and coming in small spheres, Where every now and then a fire clears The balsams from a...

Run-out Harbor (verse) (February 1935)

480 The Commonwed February 22, x935 Catholic point of view less irreverent and more sympathetic. Clear thinking, accurate expression and comprehensive knowledge of modern problems have made it...

Poems (November 1934)

November 2, 1934 T/ e Commonweal 23 Poems Interlude It was the wildest vanity-I thought that bird began for me. I cannot reach men with my word, So what have I to hold a bird! And just as I...

Counting of the Sheep (verse) (May 1934)

Counting of Sheep Here at the nameless doors of sleep I lie and count my shining sheep. The lamp turned low seems like a star, I see what beautiful sheep they are. There are no folds of time or...

The Startled Heron (April 1934)

628 The Startled Heron Once, when I was nine or ten I moved with quiet lost to men. I could come on secrets where A man would find but empty air. So it happened I came on A heron standing in...

The Housing of the Lambs (verse) (March 1934)

520 The Housing of the Lambs It had been her blessed lot To know the many kinds of fear, To keep her clean and pitiful; But one sound she would always hear. That was when she was a...

Sureties (verse) (January 1934)

346 Sureties Two things I wish to have by me To the edge of eternity, The sight of water and the high Furrows leaned against the sky. There is something whole and sweet In furrows running...

A Boy, A Lake, A Sun (verse) (September 1933)

488 THE COMMONWEAL September 22, 1933 you can think, over your toast, of all the intermediate taking wing. Or...

The Strange Children (verse) (June 1933)

184 THE COMMONWEAL June 16, 1933 and faithfully follow directions given them in the The Strange...

The Book of Snow (verse) (March 1933)

The Book of Snow The new snow made the world so bright My bedroom was unearthly white And woke me up at half-past seven; I dressed, and went out into heaven. The upper edge of everything Had...

Advice to a Young Farmer (verse) (June 1932)

June 29, I932 THE COMMONWEAL 235 examination is required matters little, provided the written examination is sufficiently searching. Finally, I would consider briefly what institutions...

The Warning (verse) (April 1932)

634 The Warning The little screech-owl sits polite In the middle of the night And tells you gently, over, over, You are wisest under cover Of your roof. Things rooted drink More than...

The Pheasant (verse) (December 1931)

154 The Pheasant A pheasant cock sprang into view, A living jewel, up he flew. His wings laid hold on empty space, Scorn bulged his eyeballs out with grace. He was a hymn from tail to...

The Painted Gods (verse) (September 1931)

September 30, 1931 THE COMMONWEAL 517 At the recently made entrance to the vaults of the White Tower a warder was keeping at bay lawless groups of visitors who were seeking to enter by what the...

The Sea-urchin (verse) (July 1931)

240 THE COMMONWEAL July 1, 1931 scores of millionaires, which extended from the Atlantic to the Pacific and which became international in their scope and character. So entrenched did they become...

Nothing Changes with the Birds (verse) (April 1931)

It is so hard that men grow gray And birds forever youthful stay. Nothing that men love the best At its flowering may rest. The loveliest ladies of them all Lie crumbled under Troy-Town's...

Where I Took Hold of Life (verse) (December 1930)

Wild roses have reclaimed the field Where I took hold of life And guided my first plow along Like a silver knife. The brown thrush sings without a break Where I turned to a man And stepped out...

Centaur (verse) (October 1930)

Qentaur The raindrops slant down close together; A year-old horse back to the weather Looks yearningly toward the panes Where creatures live who hate the rains. He knows that he should turn and...

The Weather Vane (verse) (May 1930)

The Weather Vane A man should choose with careful eye The things to be remembered by. When I was knee-high to a man, My father hired Tom McCann. Tom's days were bean-rows without end And...

Wild Swans (verse) (January 1930)

Wild Swan The afternoon was one that might have merged In nebulae of afternoons as bright Had not three wild swans made it memorable And touched it so immortally with white. Slowly they went, a...

Coffin, Robert Tristram

CogIey, John

Cogle, John

Cogley, John

Cohalan, Florence D.

Cohalax, Florence D.

Cohane, J. J.

Cohen, Arthur

Cohen, Arthur A

Cohen, Arthur A.

Cohen, Benjamin V.

Cohen, Carolyn