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December 3, 193,E The Commoiweat 153 Swiss-movement sensibilities, their miscellaneous erudition, their freedom from the slightest taint of the commercial, and their superiority to custom and rule....

Three Irish Poets (June 1935)

So Strange a Thing Out of the dark it came, In the deepest hour and most desolate— Like a descendent flame. So strange a thing I heard: Silence was shattered. . . . Song fell consummate From...

On Loch Moidart (verse) (June 1933)

242 THE COMMONWEAL June 30, 1933 ship three or four years running, the Henry Adams Prize for Romanesque Archaeology, the Paris Prize, the War- ren Prize, the Emerson Prize in Decorative...

March Evening (verse) (March 1933)

Evening This pool, the quiet sky. Is rippled with a chime. Night gathers, and the cry Of lambs in the far fold Comes to us as we climb: The moorland air is cold. Ghost-pale the grass,...

Road to Morar (verse) (December 1932)

PROHIBITION AND TOLERANCE By JOHN A. RYAN OME six weeks after the inauguration of President Hoover, I received from a prominent lawyer in Los Angeles a copy of an address which he had...

Poems (June 1932)

;gI8 T H E C O M M O N W E A L June 22, I932 PO EM S ffibr a Tower without Bells In this tall tower filled with pigeons now And silver chiming of imagined bells Real bells will ring one day....

Over the Sea to Skye (January 1932)

January 20, 1932 THE COMMONWEAL 325 OVER THE SEA TO SKYE By L. A. G. STRONG IT WAS undoubtedly, a risky thing to do. We had Old Michael with us, and he is knowledgeable as any living man:...

Seasoning the Rhodes Scholar (August 1931)

378 THE COMMONWEAL August 19, 1931 nists striving to stir up trouble to their own advantage. How strong they are, how well organized, none seems to know. I have talked to many men in authority,...

Places and Persons (May 1931)

May 27, 1931 THE COMMONWEAL 95 Places and Persons WEST HIGHLAND CONCERT By L. A. G. STRONG I T WAS I think on a Friday that someone, returning from business in the village, brought back a poster...

The Old Crofter (verse) (April 1931)

Over and through the hill Christ's blood is running To save bracken and stone, to redeem the rowan: I will name everything, for has not all creation A like share in His glory with flesh and...

Places and Persons (August 1930)

Places and Persons THE NEW CONFESSIONAL By L. A. G. STRONG SOME time ago I undertook to edit, for a period of five years, an annual anthology of magazine verse. To do this I was obliged to...

Lines (verse) (May 1930)

cGines So many ways my heart is torn I know how strangely I was born. Such confusion in my head Tells how strangely I was bred. Ireland poaching in my veins, England shepherding my...

Trophy (verse) (May 1930)

Trophy O, man who shot the eagle, You lacked an eagle's pride, Clambering for a minute Where only eagles bide: And now the trophy brands you A soul of lesser breed, Who climbed above his...

On the Western Coast (January 1930)

ON THE WESTERN COAST By L. A. G. STRONG FORTY miles from anything that can be called a town, on a strip of wild and beautiful coast facing the Hebrides, I sit, one of three left over from a family...

Sea Wish (verse) (January 1930)

$ea Fish Driven anger, salty curse, Sting the beaches of my art: Whip away what's soft and worse, Bare the cleaner, harder part. Scar it, lash it, leave it cold, Rocky base of man in growth. Art...

Young Red Angus Says Goodbye (verse) (December 1929)

Young Red Angus Says Goodbye You are going the long journey to the South, my friend: I shall run beside the train while I keep my breath. Three weeks and two days we have had, and this is the end....

Old Michael (November 1929)

OLD MICHAEL By L. A. G. STRONG OLD MICHAEL passed the back of his hand across his dry mouth, and looked northward with contracted brows to the estuary. At his feet a long line lay coiled in a...

Poems (December 1928)

December 12, 1928 THE COMMONWEAL 163 POEMS o.t the Scarlet Rain Not the scarlet rain of leaves, Nor the sudden drops of spring, Nor the sharp, impatient sleet, Not the fall of anything Is so...

Strong, L.A.G

Strong, L.A.G.

Stronks, James B.

Strouse, Jean

Strum, Philippa

Stryk, Dan

Stryk:, Babette Deutsch, John Humma, Harry Humes, Dan

Stuart, Henry L.

Stuart, Henry Longan

Stuart, Jesse

Stuart, John McHugh

Stubbs, Madelon