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Charles DuBos France and the Church lose a sensitive critic and man of letters. By Sister Charles DuBos, gentle and accomplished man of letters, with his charming wife, Zezette, lived on...

YOU ASK MY AGE (verse) (April 1938)

716 THE COMMONWEAL April 22, 1938 happen. The parents of one camper arrived early with a carload of friends and with a large lunch basket. They appropriated a cozy nook in the rear of the canteen....

Meditaltion on Atlas (verse) (April 1937)

April 30, I937 Tile Commonweal 15 that synthesis consists only in assembling facts. The mere bringing into contact of oxygen and hydrogen does not give birth to water. Energy must also be...

Survivors (verse) (May 1936)

37 Survivors On the French Riviera The aloe can have died of blossoming A hundred times and more Since dream-and-travel-dazed Odysseus Wandered this shore. The punctual cypress can have...

Oxford, June 3 (September 1934)

OXFORD, JUNE 3 By SISTER M. MADELEVA ON THE evening of the Sunday within the octave of Corpus Christi an ancient glory returned to Oxford,. England. The Blessed Sacrament was carried in procession...

Return (verse) (April 1934)

7o8 Return This is your home to which you are returning. Because you have so hungered for the place, Shall we not stop to say the simple grace That you have spent a passionate life-time...

Riddles, One, Two and Three (verse) (October 1933)

October 6, 1933 THE COMMONWEAL 531 so of highest value, letting distant incomprehensibles await ...

Of What Avail (verse) (March 1933)

Of What Avail I will withstand my white love to her face, My silver moon. O, bitterest thing to do! I cannot be her thrall and lover, too; I must have freedom for a little space From her...

The Four Last Things (February 1932)

THE FOUR LAST THINGS By SISTER M. MADELEVA THE FOUR last things, death, judgment, hell and heaven, ethically considered, may have been preoccupations of lyric poetry in the days of Gray and...

The Foolish Sentry (verse) (October 1931)

630 THE COMMONWEAL October 28, 1931 Canberra, the capital of Australia, wo upon that city which must needs offer prizes to the best architect who shall provide plans for its building! Not so grew...

Details for My Burial (verse) (February 1930)

Details for My Burial As for the matter of my burial: It follows hard the golden day I die; There needs but a small grave where I may lie, Cut in the snow's white peace I love so well, Or...

In the Face of Failure (verse) (April 1929)

718 THE COMMONWEAL April 24, 1929 great numbers of neat autograph letters, bargains all l'amour de Dieu," the...

Poems (April 1929)

April 1o, 1929 THE COMMONWEAL 655 POEMS (lope Dies...

Protest Imperative (verse) (December 1928)

x56 THE COMMONWEAL December x2, 1928 Contrary to a wide-spread belief, a widow cannot draw at once on moneys held in a bank in the name of her dead husband solely. To draw on such moneys at all,...

Hokku (May 1928)

Jfokh The Cherry Tree The world is filled with You! From what, besides Your beauty, could I have fashioned flower-buds ? Tomorrow You shall have cherry-blossoms, my Maker. A Mother to Her...

Poems (January 1928)

Mirage Around the lane's Familiar turn, I saw the house, With the churn Sunning on The old porch floor, And someone peering From the door. I heard a voice, Beloved, uncanny— And I was...

Poems (December 1926)

December 8, t926 THE COMMONWEAL 133 POEMS xuestions on a Nun's Habit You do not think it is because I do not share A woman's subtle weakness for the piquancy of dress--- Its swift, sure...

As One Finding Peace (verse) (August 1926)

342 THE COMMONWEAL August ii, 1926 judgment of -the majority. Recently the processes of the kind...

Penelope (verse) (March 1926)

THE BEZALEL EXHIBITION By ANNA McCLURE SHOLL MANY years ago a little Cheder boy went to hear a magid. "It was on a Sabbath after Shalosh Sudath. The Beth Hamidrosh was wrapped in twilight gloom....

Futility (verse) (February 1926)

futility I have to dress you in your shroud, (A crude device, by no means new) And look on you who are so proud, To worms consigned, to ashes bowed, To keep my heart from loving you. I have to...

Madeley, John

Madelva, Sister M.

MADER, THOMAS F.

Madigan, Kevin

Madigan, Kevin J.

Madison, James

Madison, Lucy

Madrick, Jeff

Madsen, Richard

Maestrini, Nicholas

Magadia, Jose

Magalaner, Marvin