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Identification These mountains of dismay That we have come upon, That throng the sky of day And darken the sweet sun, Are those, as time will prove, That faith knows how to move. David...

ADMONITION TO MYSELF (April 1940)

Let it be told how all the flowers came And shone against the meadow in their pride, And how a secret bird without a name Called from the dark wood on the mountain side; Make mention of the tall...

MUSIC FOR NIGHTFALL (Verse) (July 1939)

290 THE COMMONWEAL July x4, x939 family is turned into the streets to roam around until some welfare agency or relief bureau takes the case up and resettles them. Then they pay for moving into...

POET (verse) (November 1938)

98 Poet It never was enough That bird or tree Impinged upon the startled sight, Lovely . . . and free! But mind, being stung to love, Having stood to see The loved one naked in the...

Finalities (verse) (December 1937)

December 3, 1937 The Commonweal 155 He leaned over the side of the boat, spat care-fully, and relapsed into aloofness, going at once a hundred miles from those in the boat, his face worn and...

Salutation to a Cricket (verse) (August 1937)

Salutation to a Cricket Not you, alone, importunate brother, Singing and so seeming-bold— Did you but guess, there's many another Sings against the coming cold. . . . Aye, many a one, did...

Logos (verse) (December 1936)

Logos What is it can arrest the passing bird? Not the blue back-drop of forgetful sky, Not air that parts to let the arrow by ... Only the staying word ! Not the slow eye that views the lovely...

Fortitude (verse) (September 1936)

481 Fortitude The way of fortitude is set In darkness on a stony slope, And lonely, since few friends are met When one is traveling out of hope; And all the bitter steep is bare Of fruit or...

Deep-forest Epitaph (verse) (January 1936)

The Commonweal 290 January IO, 1936 states Catholics will support the employment of existing agencies for the maintenance of inter-national peace. A large proportion of national delegates to...

In Time of Woodsmoke (verse) (December 1935)

174 The Commonweal December 13, 1935 Secret Pact of London, and contains an Article nized as free, sovereign and independent...

And It Was So (verse) (March 1935)

March 15 , r935 The Commonwea! 565 He clapped his hands three times. An orderly came quickly, saluted, received an order and hurried off. At the Commandant's invitation I went into his office...

Minor Prophet (verse) (May 1934)

Minor Prophet . . . But they were bearded, they were old, And fiery-eyed, and had great fame, And what they had to tell they told With words of terror, words of flame. You will alter the fashion,...

The Time (verse) (October 1931)

542 THE COMMONWEAL October 7, 1931 felt a sense of loss, his music told them of a happiness which they did not possess but for which they longed to the point of tears. We may explain the stifling...

Jonquil and Star (verse) (May 1931)

66 THE COMMONWEAL May 20, 1931 How to give to Father Tabb, illustrious poet, fitting honor in his native state, was long a mooted question, and it burned in the mind of Mr. George Watson James, a...

In Time of Autumn Rains (verse) (November 1930)

Give over this long sorrow, heart, give over; There has been enough of blood and sweat and pain.— Now when the streaming rains have come to cover All that was summer fruit and summer stain, Give...

Books (March 1930)

BOOKS The Hero of Texas The Raven: A Biography of Sam Houston, by Marquis James. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company. $5.00. THE new school of biography has many blemishes, and yet...

Books (January 1930)

BOOKS Knowledge and Faith The New Catholic Dictionary. New York: Universal Knowledge Foundation. Green cloth, $10.00; buckram, $12.50; half-leather, $15.00; cardinal red morocco, $25.00. IT SEEMS...

Books (December 1929)

BOOKS Discovering Wilson George Harvey, by Willis Fletcher Johnson. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company. $5.00. IT DOES not take all of Mr. Johnson's 436 pages to convince the reader that he...

Books (November 1929)

BOOKS The Byron Tangle The Life and Letters of Anne Isabella, Lady Noel Byron, by Ethel Colburn Mayne. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons. $5-00. IT IS only rarely, if at all, that one comes upon...

Sonnets (October 1929)

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...

Sonnets (June 1927)

J^antasy Rain in the lilacs, now—yet this has seemed Less like a summer than a dream of summer; And this wide, scented dusk, likel something dreamed. Returns about one ghostly later-comer Who...

Poems (September 1926)

496 THE COMMONWEAL September z9, 1926 any she has been given in recent years. I can well...

Sonnets (June 1926)

132 THE COMMONWEAL June 9, 1926 SONNETS ...

Morton, Timothy

Moseley, D. H.

Moseley, D.H.

Mosely, Laura

Moses, Paul

Moses, Wilson J.

Mosio, Jacqueline Bell

Moss, Robert F