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626 The Commonweal April 1, 1938 And by the same token, doesn't it seem reason-able that such a lad will work harder in digging up a story, any story that will add to his news-paper's prestige and...

Little Poem for Dusk (verse) (October 1937)

Little Poem for Dusk The evening road is lighted by more than sunset skies: through fern and maple-thicket glow bright and amber eyes. Chipmunk and mouse and squirrel, small lanterns in their...

Winter Shore (verse) (December 1936)

Winter Shore Like a salty mast made driftwood by the tide, is the color of winter's sky above the golden sea-oats stiffly bending along the whipped and windy-rounded dunes. FRANCES...

Aquarium (verse) (October 1936)

Aquarium Here in a glassed-in smaller ocean glide the iridescent scales, the scarlet fin, the restless lovely silver-spattered side, the flashing minnows exquisite and thin. Here the inhabitants of...

Old Map: Mare del Sud (verse) (September 1936)

504 In the larger sense it is not a problem of dealing with 20,000,000 jobless; rather we have 20,000,000 problems of idle men and women and their dependents, each a problem that involves more than...

Mountain Graveyard (verse) (August 1936)

422 Mountain Graveyard Under the stiff blue spruce, the blown designs of cedar and of fir, they have laid their knotted shoulders to this land and turned toward sleep, who were handlers of...

Grandma and the Death Hound (June 1936)

154 GRANDMA AND THE DEATH HOUND By FRANCES FROST GRANDMA and Lizzie Beals had their last set-to when I was fourteen, going on fifteen. They hadn't spoken to each other for forty-three years,...

Expedition toward Rain (verse) (May 1936)

Expedition toward Rain The severed grass was strewn along the field where scythes had laid it low, and golden stuhble pitched toward the swift white thunderheads that loomed over the evening...

In Praise of Islands (verse) (February 1936)

February 21, 1936 The Commonweal 457 Yes, on the whole starvation in Baltimore is In Praise of...

Morning (verse) (November 1935)

66 T/ze Commonwea[ November I 5, ~935 sess the confidence of the people, and this condition can easily lead to a situation requiring the complete dominance of the Japanese military authorities,...

Autumnal (verse) (October 1935)

Autumnal Last night at dusk the wedged wild geese came over, crying out of the north; crossing the thin and chilly moon, they left the rusty hollows, the tattered pastures, taking summer...

The Departure (March 1935)

T/ e Comrnonwea[ March 29, I935 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . THE DEPARTURE the houses, where the dead were buried, as his mother was buried, after she had borne him,...

Dark Season (verse) (December 1933)

186 THE COMMONWEAL December 15, 1933 Eyck has to say is, I wager, ten times more, if said less Wagnerianly than the Tintoretto. In fact, with Tintoretto we can see what modern painting is....

For a Child Born at Nightfall (verse) (October 1933)

612 THE COMMONWEAL October 27, 1933 Mr. Blair; this time Mr. Blair is awakened; this is business. The rain forces us inside. He walks down the stairs in a clean striped shirt opeffat the neck, a...

Autumnal Coast (verse) (October 1932)

618 T H E C O M M O N W E A L October 26, I93Z mit of wantonness. Patiently, heavily, with repetitious insistence, he has worked toward his object. He is grave but full of enthusiasm, fervent...

Childhood (verse) (September 1932)

466 i THE COMMONWEAL September x4, I932 about the indiscretion of going to Les Allinges when one should be in tidy Vevey ? We recalled the doctor's advice when we informed the reception clerk...

Frost, Frances M.

FROST, RAYMOND

Fry, John

Frymer-Kensky, Tikva

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