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A Celt Turned Maori By EILEEN DUGGAN THE CHURCH has never failed in respect for the simple. Even among the ancients of the pre-Christian era the human intellect was humbled by legend. Balaam's...

WAR (Verse) (June 1941)

War The worst burn is to come Though countries blaze like bush- One moment a green song, The next a blackened hush. What if the bush-fire's flames Whirl like a high sun-spot, By paddock suckling...

Contrition (Verse) (September 1938)

s8o THE COMMONWEAL September 30, 1938 principle has failed to function. The investing-members, that is, merchants and other non-farmers, have always succeeded in having the savings distributed as...

The Vernacular (verse) (October 1937)

I0 The Commonweal October 29, 1937 A demonstration of the necessity for such criticism could easily have been deduced from the humanist controversy which agitated the literary world in America some...

Detachment (verse) (September 1937)

Detachment Each wing-beat up your song grows purified. Its glitter flows unquenchable on high, O brighter than an icefall streaming through The velvet levels of the upper sky! It seems ere you...

Cloudy Bay (verse) (June 1936)

155 Cloudy Bay Where the racing Wairau slows, homesick for its snowshed, Tua Marina murmurs in the south. Caught in a loop of sighing, saltless waters, Running intently into one great...

nationality (verse) (April 1936)

686 Tile Commonweal April I7, x936 Doctor Carrel, in his "Man the Unknown," maintains that of the means employed for the development of the mind--professors, libraries, laboratories, books and...

Transparmce (verse) (April 1936)

/_F71 T 6S8 he...

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...

Sonnet (verse) (August 1934)

Sonnet Oh sea and air have but one will, one way. Their skyline melts into a single blue, But land-horizons will not yield their say And out of every protest make a hue, And, through this stand...

Epiphany (verse) (January 1934)

296 Epiphany Those who live in country places Are not used to foreign faces. Even of a pedlar selling Some are frightened beyond telling Dust is dust in any village, Even sooner than...

The Solitary (verse) (December 1933)

December 8, 1933 THE C O M M O N W E A L 159 for young and old, baseball and basketball teams, an Altar Boys' Sodality and a Married Women's and Mothers' Club. Over Too children, coming from a...

Twilight (verse) (March 1933)

twilight I was driving the cows and the frogs were soothsaying, "Woe, land and water ; All, all is lost!" It was winter full grown and my bones were black in me, The tussocks were brittling from...

Picture (verse) (October 1932)

552 THE COMMONWEAL October I2, x93z But perhaps the simplest comparison, and the highest authority, is that which they could find in a wellknown parable of the New Testament. This shows...

Bequest (verse) (September 1932)

470 THE COMMONWEAL September I4, x932 tendency to skulk, and he is very serious, for he is engaged in solving some problem, "an explanation of culture from the Freudian view" or something of...

Pilgrimage (verse) (March 1932)

Pilgrimage Now are the bells unlimbered from their spires In every steeple-loft from pole to pole. The four winds wheel and blow in to this gate, And every wind is wet with carillons. The two...

Presumption (verse) (July 1931)

320 THE COMMONWEAL July 29, 1931 and factitious antiquity value which agnostic dealers and museum curators assign to it. But remembering in the present instance that comparisons are odious and may...

Horizon (verse) (December 1930)

The sky is summered into trance, The sea is caught up too, And with what passion of amaze Over their meeting Blue broods into blue. So might a saint in ecstasy, His heaven hot and...

Desertion (verse) (September 1930)

T)esertion Owl, what is odd about the night? What is that thorny, sailing light? But the owl turned guarded eyes. Sparrow, what are you hiding from me, And what are you doing out of your...

Vindication (verse) (March 1930)

'Vindication Spring, I hold up my hand for you. Not that my hand avails. I am little, unknown and lonely, Against their mighty tales. Spring, they have made you a pandar, Shaming your lovely...

Discipline (verse) (January 1930)

Discipline Life brings me blows instead of balms. Ah well, such roughness has its use, Milk-moody heifers will go-dry Beneath a hand that's loose. Some blossoms sulk their honey too. I, as a...

Annunciation (verse) (March 1929)

57 ~ THE COMMONWEAL March 20, I929 done, whereas ours is a cunning rogue. The ghostly men gave the name of hypocrite not only as we do, to men who feigned goodness, but to men who...

Plagiarism (verse) (February 1929)

February 20, 1929 THE COMMONWEAL 455 The Boy...

Poems (January 1929)

350 THE COMMONWEAL January 23, 1929 POEMS `Lhithin...

Resurrection (verse) (February 1928)

Lo, how the butterfly, the paladin of air, To whom blue acres-are baronial things, Who takes them as an eldest son the name, Or owl the night, Before the time of wings Lies blind, without...

Poems (November 1927)

The Chase While five loud ignorances argued, One keen intelligence had tracked The evidence, and when the others Came up they found it with the fact. The five were like contrary...

Poems (May 1927)

The Little Peoples Sometimes through years, sometimes within a year The little hunted nations leave their walls, A tumult lifts them, sends them flying far. Wailing and cursing, till a silence...

Poems (April 1927)

663 POEMS The Daffodil Speaks Old Atlas had no greater task than I Who lift the sleeping earth upon my back; I sip a potent liquor from the sky When Taurus bellows on the zodiac. When winter...

Fire (verse) (October 1926)

October 13, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 555 ing about notes: one took them as a concession to write for five...

Franciscan Poems (October 1926)

October 6, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 527 SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI ORA PRO NOBIS "The...

Duggan, Francis X.

Duguid, Julian

Dula, Peter

Duling, Dennis C

Dulles, Avery

DULLES, AVERY CARDINAL

Dulles, John Foster

Dummett, Michael