To a Writer Not because you do not see The shaken instability Of what supports our fragile days, Not because a rosy haze Obscures your sight (the edge beneath Convention's curved and molded...
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6o6 THE COMMONWEAL October 17, 1928 POEMS Roma! Tourists throwing their coppers into the Trevi fountain, Lest they should not come back to Rome the beloved, Lest they should not see...
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The Chase While five loud ignorances argued, One keen intelligence had tracked The evidence, and when the others Came up they found it with the fact. The five were like contrary...
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(guitars of Alcdcer Guitars, guitars of Alcacer-Quibir— Your song of sorrow is sweet to hear. You sing of lovers' hearts enchained, Of chestnut eyes, of kisses gained. Guitars, guitars of...
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618 T H E C O M M O N W E A L October 28, I925 emasculate group of repellant egoists, who talk in phrases which are presumably epigrams, but which as a rule are deadly inanities. The better the...
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September 2, 1925 THE COMMONWEAL 397 POEMS My eyes!—God, they burn! Has the dark descended? Has the sun ceased to turn? Has the universe ended? I saw a planet, Flaming and falling. 'Twas...
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402 THE COMMONWEAL February iB, 1925 London. The historian need be no more of a Cath olic...
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