156 THE COMMONWEAL June 1o, 1931 the non-guilt of the Central Empires? Has the Holy Father spoken? .... It is obvious that if France and possibly Belgium, possibly also the nations of the Petite...
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The pallid skin, the lean and hungry look, The pale blue shirt, the limp and girlish hips, The furtive eyes, nostalgic for a book, The black wild hair, the sensual, long lips. The haunted smile,...
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Coming He found us like the deathly thief In all our night of unbelief; A new star, like the Magi's gem Above a blind new Bethlehem, He lighted up the little way Of men lost fearfully in...
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Magnet Through castles of arboreal chrysoprase The mullet goes in glory all his days. No garnet domes in dreamy Xanadu Approach the vaulted capitols of gold Where fish are kings. No galleries hold...
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When John Barrymore Talks ONE of our best motion picture critics, Thornton Delehanty, has made the discovery that the freedom of the talking screen has released a quality in John Barrymore's acting...
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Country Store In this emporium of soap and cheese, Percale, molasses, snuff, and ipecac, The grizzled sages, mouthing mysteries, Expertly spit tobacco at a crack. One on a sugar-barrel picks his...
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646 THE COMMONWEAL October 23, 1929 ml 1,, SONNETS gdYa land October Land of the purple apples and fat churns, Ripe hermitage of hardihood and peace, Home to your harvest hills my...
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August 7, 1929 THE COMMONWEAL 361 SONNETS Drought Broken ouryley The clock that has stopped begins to tick again And out of an empty sky falls eager rain That has long been given...
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Ioo T H E C O M M O N W E A L May 29, I929 then I slipped to the ground which was no short dis- tance away. I pushed on his head toward the centre of the road and succeeded in bending his...
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December 12, 1928 THE COMMONWEAL 163 POEMS o.t the Scarlet Rain Not the scarlet rain of leaves, Nor the sudden drops of spring, Nor the sharp, impatient sleet, Not the fall of anything Is so...
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