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Lyric to the Sun Nightlong I dreamed of one estranged, And in my dream was nothing changed; And then dawn came and I awoke And into fragments the frail dream broke. Thinking of him, like a bell...

Keen in Cold Weather (verse) (December 1934)

December I4, I934 The Commonweal I95 un-Christian as many non-Catholics--in the net are good fish and bad. And it is unfortunate that many Catholics show racial prejudice. The important fact...

Books (October 1934)

BOOKS A Soldier Scientist Tells His Story A Soldier in Science. The Autobiography of Bailey K. Ashford, M.D., Col. M. C. U.S.A. New York: Wm. Morrow and Company. $3.50. BRUSSELS. September 11,...

Flowering in a Phrase (July 1934)

FLOWERING IN A PHRASE By MUNA LEE A SCANT half-dozen times in my own experience, human beings have in single sentences given the essence of themselves; utterances leaving on the hearer a...

Puerto Rican Moonrise (verse) (May 1933)

IO2 THE COMMONWEAL May 26, I933 to book-buying for the town library. Arriving at last, weary beyond words, m lvlrs. Schwartz's guest-room, I am told there is an hour to spare before I must...

Porto Rican Hacienda (verse) (June 1930)

cPorto Rican Hacienda Afternoon in Don Efren's field Tastes of honey and cinnamon and cassava root And is drowsily heavy with yield Of thickly fledged furrow and groves of wild...

Poems (September 1929)

September II, I929 THE COMMONWEAL POEMS ffT'inis Though on each idle dwdling There swings a sign, Such rental and such selling Is none of mine No roof forever leaking...

Villanelle of His Preferences (verse) (November 1927)

Since you prefer light words and gay, Fearful of love too grave and deep, I shall break my heart this way! Smiling and debonair, I'll say My days are pleasant and calm my sleep, Since you...

Decoration (verse) (December 1924)

178 THE COMMONWEAL December 24, 1924 stood outside the small ungarnished room. No...

Lee, Valerie E

Leedy, Dave

Leedy, David

Leege, David C.

LEER, DANIEL J.

Lefkowitz, Mary

Leftwich, Jane

Legler, Philip

Lehman, David

Lehner, Ulrich L.