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THE KREMLIN AND THE TAR BABY EFFECT Let the Russians do it J. PATRICK DOBEL OVER A YEAR AGO the exhumed Munich analogy and "appeasement" reentered current political rhetoric. Ronald Reagan has...

The Hidden Christ (November 1963)

The Hidden Christ I went into the Christmas cave. There was no Child upon the straw. The ox and ass were all I saw. I sought His table where He gave His goodness in the guise of bread. Emptiness...

Two Poems (June 1950)

Two Poems by Jessica Powers THE BLOOD'S MYSTIC RACE girds that moment when the spirit halts To watch the Magdalen In the mad turbulence that was her love. Light hallows him who thinks upon...

THE MOMENT AFTER SUFFERING (Verse) (January 1949)

348 THE COMMONWEAL January i4, i949 tenement district to meet a city problem of bringing Christian influence into unions. Catholic interracial councils now doing noble work in so many places...

THE BOOK OF RUTH (Verse) (December 1948)

3oa THE COMMONWEAL December 31, x948 ^CTU has no theoretical objection to the admission of non-Catholics to membership. As a matter of fact, the ACTU provides an "associate member-ship" to...

ADVENT: IN MARY-DARKNESS (Verse) (December 1948)

December I7, I948 THE COMMONWEAL ~53 heavily into radio listening. James D. Shouse, chairman of the Board and president of the Crosley Broadcasting Corporation in Cincinnati, has publicly admitted...

THE FLOWER OF LOVE (Verse) (November 1948)

9~ THE ,COMMONWEAL November 5, I948 victory not only for negative and shortsighted but also for attempts to establish a ng-term policy. This policy would make the rise of German nationalism...

THE SEEDING-GROUND (Verse) (January 1948)

The Seeding-Ground My heart ran forth on little feet of music To keep the New Commandment. O sweet felicity, its steps were gay! It would beguile the world to be a garden With its own seeds of...

FORTITUDE ET DECOR (Verse) (December 1947)

225 Fortitude et Decor The weak and timorous have need to be Gathered in clusters into company. Only the strong can dwell alone, can walk alone. I think of the beautiful strength of Joachim's...

TO ELIAS THE PROPHET (Verse) (October 1947)

October I7, 1947 THE COMMONWEAL day I surprised them all talking Irish, and their faces were gay, eager and friendly. When they Blue Print Election found I had learned Irish in my college days,...

THE MASSES (Verse) (April 1947)

The Masses My love had not the openness to hold So cumbersome a multitude of men. Mankind in bulk would turn the dials of my heart to Cold. The mind would bolt its doors and curtly vow Never to...

THE IMMACULATE HEART (Verse) (February 1947)

THE COMMONWEAL February 28, x947 schools ("Americans upstairs, Mexicans in the basement") the police sitting quietly while the colored are forcibly prevented from voting--has happened, over and...

HUMILITY (Verse) (February 1947)

438 Humility Humility is to be still Under the weathers of God's Will. It is to have no hurt surprise When morning's ruddy promise dies, When wind and drought destroy, or sweet Saving rains...

GOD IS A STRANGE LOVER (Verse) (January 1947)

369 God Is a Strange Lover God is the strangest of all lovers; His ways are past explaining. He sets His heart on a soul; He says to Himself, "Here I will rest My love." But He does not woo...

THE SOUL IS A TERRIBLE THING (December 1945)

December 21, 1945 THE COMMONWEAL 255 The Soul Is a Terrible Thing The soul is a terrible thing; it cannot die. Though it run past the heart's beat and the lung's breath And cry through all...

THE PLACE OF SPLENDOR (Verse) (November 1945)

92 THE COMMONWEAL November 9, 1945 The Place of Splendor Little one, wait. Let me assure you this is not the way To gain the terminal of outer day. Its single gate Lies in your soul, and...

MANY ARE THE CHILDREN OF THE DESOLATE (Verse) (November 1941)

November 28, I94I THE COMMONWEAL x35 last of the corn. The short December days passed swiftly, and at last the men came to the eve of that long-looked-for day of triumph. Only two loads of corn...

LEAFAGE OF SNOW (Verse) (July 1941)

Leafage of Snow How would the green lush growth encounter frost With odor and decay. Therefore rejoice that leaf and blade are lost Before death's hands are on the season crossed. Nature is...

INTIMATIONS OF DOOM (Verse) (June 1941)

Intimation of Doom There is a glitter of terror on the world, The brightness of the leaves before a storm. The sun of this weird day has run to cover. Silence of wind gives deafening alarm....

SONG OF THE FALLEN NATIONS (Verse) (December 1940)

204 THE COMMONWEAL December 13, 1940 water must be used to fill the jar and restore the original properties of the blood. A physician rushing to aid a gunner fallen from his post in a torpedoed...

FOR A SILENT POET (Verse) (May 1940)

76 THE COMMONWEAL May 17, 1940 who would try their best to ignore, if not preju- that the Pundit, and probably the...

IF YOU HAVE NOTHING (Verse) (March 1940)

The gesture of a gift is adequate. If you have nothing: laurel leaf nor bay, No flower, no seed, no apple gathered late, Do not in desperation lay The beauty of your tears upon the clay. No...

PLACE OF RUIN (August 1939)

August I I , I939 THE COM America is our golden opportunity. Never have we been offered so fine a chance to promote both our Christianity and our democracy. When Christianity came into the...

MAN, THE INVENTOR (Verse) (February 1939)

Man, the Inventor Man, at your arrogant machine, Inventive genius of a war On which the pride of nations lean, May I become inquisitor? I see what steel devices kill Your brother in a flood of...

Lament for Spain (Verse) (September 1938)

September 16, 1938 THE COMMONWEAL 523 our diocesan weeklies, religious monthlies and other publications must write about these questions because their readers are supremely interested in them; but...

Two Poems (May 1938)

COMMONWEAL May 6, 1938 They are sceptical. Eighty stories, but that is impossible ! Even customers coming in in the middle of their astonishment assent and wonder. No one can imagine it. But the...

She Is Not Sorrow (verse) (January 1938)

352 The Commonweal January 2I, 1938 mental norms of that supreme degree of science, which for the lack of a better name is called metaphysics. (Others, because it is so all-embracing, have called...

The Dark Armies (verse) (October 1937)

The Dark Armies I hear all night the feet marching in Moscow, I hear them marching in Spain and in Berlin. They forge a pathway that the Powers of Darkness May send their multitudinous armies...

The Death of Saint Thérèse of Lisieux (verse) (October 1936)

The Death of Saint Therese of Lisieux Winter, her life, was past. To her charmed sill The turtle-dove, prophetic, came to coo, And through the odorous garden of Lisieux Close on the syllables of...

The City That Knows No Sun (verse) (February 1935)

February I5, i935 The Commonwea! 453 of the whole social order, is essentially the same as that involved in the success or failure of the private interest groups to produce the kind...

The City of Angels (February 1934)

408 The City of Angels I was enamoured of this street of fire And always warmed my spirit at its flame, But oh, tonight the joy beyond desire When to my sight the winged legions came. I saw...

Michigan Boulevard, Chicago (verse) (December 1932)

<3XCichigan Boulevard, Chicago There is a star above this street for me. Hither I came of old Bearing my myrrh and frankincense and gold. Hunger and loneliness and poverty I brought for its...

Before an Outdoor Crucifix (verse) (January 1932)

Before an Outdoor Crucifix O little blue stiletto of the wind, You will not wound me in this morning's duel; Clothed and fed with pleasure and with pride, I shall not find you cruel. I have...

Lo Spirito Santo (verse) (December 1929)

Lo Spirito Santo The Spirit of God Is wind and water, Fire and a bird. Substance and sod And earth and matter Have formed one word. For who has looked On a fire blowing Who has not seen Banners...

Poem (May 1929)

May 15, 1929 THE COMMONWEAL 49 POEMS Of Beauty Aloof and Rejected Now a tall tiger, proud in black and gold, Walks with soft tread across the jungle mold, And one lean eagle mounts a lonely...

Poems (January 1929)

350 THE COMMONWEAL January 23, 1929 POEMS `Lhithin...

Poems (February 1928)

(§ortilege Something of her is all but told By the voice of the rain. April spends silver, June spends gold, That she may laugh again. She, who is sister to the sun. And elf-kin to the...

The Only Door (verse) (January 1927)

January 12, 1927 THE COMMONWEAL 269 How John Knox and his followers must have held their hands up in horror at sight of the Marguerites of Margaret of Navarre; Verard's Jardin de Plaisance; and...

Poems (October 1926)

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

This Maytime (verse) (May 1926)

May 26, 1926 THE COMMONWEAL 73 thorns and thistles, my sons, and make a beautiful spot of birds, belongs to...

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