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280 Saint Thomas Aquinas You said the lodestar of the mind, Fired with energy from above, Seeking the Triune-God, will find Him centered in the core of love. Yes, as of old the olives...

Midnight; Early Summer (verse) (June 1934)

Midnight; Early Summer Time softens to silk now, And the birds sleep On the hidden bough, Where the dark is deep. No more the sun plays His golden pranks, 'Twixt branched ways And...

The Song Superlative (verse) (March 1933)

The Song Superlative Through pride of meekness, The lips are kissed, When strength is weakness In the strategist. Joy bred of pain Pays willing toll; The dark of bane Relights the...

On a Portrait of Innocent X by Velasquez (verse) (October 1932)

October I2, 1932 THE COMMONWEAL 563 see what was tipped for the three-thirty. I was beginning to feel that Tarbes was more interesting than it looked. So after lunch I set out to explore further....

New Cathedral: Salamanca (verse) (May 1930)

J^ew Cathedral: Salamanca This prayer in marble moving toward the sky, This mountain-mass of hush was all their own Conception of man's gift to God alone— This is the star-flung flower we know...

June(verse) (June 1929)

21o THE COMMONWEAL June 26, 1929 twenties as an old maid would reckon them. It gave the death blow to the Gothic romance." "I see. Of course if she was an old maid, she couldn't write a good...

Snow (verse) (February 1929)

452 THE COMMONWEAL February 20, 1929 infringed. The immense advantages of the system are ican candidates for...

Poems (December 1927)

'The Reapers "Good-night, and a good sword!" Be your watchword, for the Lord, Who had vainly called the many now hath chosen you the few, At the altars where you kneeled. And your thews and...

Poems (August 1927)

I am weary of the world's ways And weary of my own. I will go and seek the valleys Where time is overthrown. I will scale the windy passes And lie down among the grasses And forget the lads...

The Sunset-Horn from Caerleon (verse) (February 1927)

The Sunset-Horn from Caerleon All day the sentry guarded the gates of iron, That hung above broad stairs of Kentish stone. The velvet flower of the blue autumn, fading, Was drenched with dust of...

Poems (November 1926)

78 THE COMMONWEAL November 24, 1926 POEMS Valley of the Vanished Kings All night the thundering of horsemen fills The valley-floor with music. All night long The hemlocks hear the...

Poems (June 1926)

214 THE COMMONWEAL June 30, 1926 POEM S C7or Such as Did Not...

Autumn-Ending (verse) (December 1925)

Prison Cells Six by three and a half, And seven high: Such are the holes in which Men live and die. Kennels for dogs are these, Not human souls— Even if black they be— Paying their ...

November (verse) (November 1925)

th(ovember Now in the midst of grief-anointed days, When dying leaves are harassed by the wind, The maples' torches fade—the wild geese pass. The frost that sewed thin shrouds on tree and...

Poems (October 1925)

THE COMMONWEAL October 2I, I925 POEMS Ecstasy When I was young, and the new day broke in At the white window-pane, showing its face, Something played for me with a violin-- Saying that...

Daniel Boone (verse) (February 1925)

February 25, [925 THE COMMONWEAL 435 tectural need. They had felt that false pride—the fetish...

Poems (December 1924)

126 THE COMMONWEAL Deccmber 10, 1924 ...

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