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Sonnet to Philosophy Happiness and unhappiness both end, But you remain, O strong and quenchless fire ! Never, like other objects, do you blend With nothingness, in defiance of desire. The...

If the Sun Be Set Forever (verse) (June 1937)

// the Sun Be Set Forever And if the sun be set forever now, Never again to rise and cast a ray Over the road on which I make my way, Shall I be vanquished and forget my vow, Resign my heart no...

Chiaroscuro (verse) (February 1937)

Chiaroscuro The field was dark, the field was still, no sunrise stained the sky. I saw no road that stretched above the shadows strange and deep. My mind was dark, my feeble will sought methods...

Fighting-man's Widow (verse) (November 1936)

Fighting-man s Widow I've gotten help to lay you low Under the burial-stone. There you will be when the last winds blow, And the last blue spear is thrown. Little's the time I waste in sleep,...

Sophisticated Reflection (verse) (May 1936)

66 Sophisticated Reflection Let us ask ourselves, before we begin The circuit again, is it worth our while To risk the old scratches on soul and skin For the doubtful nourishment of a...

Grandmother's First Love (January 1935)

338 The Commonweal January I8, 1935 sure on broadcasting wave-lengths by providing an alternative method for point-to-point communication. Once we have effectively "harnessed" them, they may...

The Pension (October 1931)

572 THE COMMONWEAL October 14, 1931 THE PENSION By HELENE MULLINS WHEN the New York State government announced that it would grant a small pension to its destitute citizens over the age of...

Lament (verse) (February 1930)

Lament Alas! though you've been gone from me a short space only, 'Tis like a life of nights and days have passed away. No place is pleasant to me now, I've grown that lonely, There's not a one I...

Death Comes to All (verse) (September 1927)

Once Heraclitus lived in grief and pain, And in the darkness scribbled poetry; Catullus once loved Lesbia with disdain, And pleaded with the gods to set him free. But death soon granted each a...

Poems (October 1926)

556 THE COMMONWEAL October 13, 1926 P 0 E M...

Poems (August 1926)

August i8, I9z6 THE COMMONWEAL 367 POEM S Villanelle of a Sad...

To-(verse) (April 1926)

To— {After Reading a Volume of Tales Translated from the Persian.) Some day, perhaps, when you are gone from me, And all the things we loved are veiled with dust, And I am old and tired...

Poems (November 1925)

November n, 1925 THE COMMONWEAL POEMS The Lovers Miranda's lover sees himself A shield about her tender form; He sees Miranda as a thing Too frail to brave a storm. Miranda sees herself...

Sonnets (September 1925)

507 SONNETS Shells When we return from the long-quiet places, Shall we find these, old tortuous shells again? Shall we look forth from smooth, earth-softened faces Into a selflessness beyond...

The Dying Poet (verse) (September 1925)

The Dying Poet During this hour shadows touch his eyes, For he has turned his back upon the sun. Lo, now he dies, as any other dies Who has not wandered far, as he has done, Beyond the...

Mullins, Terence Y.

Mumford, Lewis

Munby, Denys

Munch, Regina

Munrb, Eleanor

Munser, E. L.

Munser, E.L.

Munson, Gorham

MUNSON, THOMAS N.

Munsterberg, Margaret

Munzer, E. L.

Munzer, Egbert