Poetry
Spring 1958
Why We Loved Her
The violets back of the hedge Washed and cold, As blue as that because she was four years old; The turkey-red scallops carefully made Round her flannel petticoat; The sharp […]
Book Reviews
Autumn 1955
Fire in the Raven’s Nest
Selected Poems by Roy Campbell. Regnery. $6.50. When Roy Campbell returned to his native Africa at the age W of twenty-three, he proved that he had not degenerated from earlier […]
Three Poems
Spring 1953
Song
There is a place in which the owl May sit in shadowed bliss, And lay his beak upon his ruff: He flies remembering this. There is a hollow where the […]
Poetry
Spring 1953
It Was Strange
That hen was always laying in the hay loft, And the old lady said she’d catch her at it yet. She went to the barn, stepping warily and soft, And […]
Poetry
Winter 1949
When All the Visitors Are Gone
When all the visitors are goneThe glass shall fall from the window frameWith the reflection of the fireAnd brass and damask thereupon,Also the face of which I tire,And I shall […]
Poetry
Winter 1949
If More than Kindness
If more than kindness then no less than love.The crumbs will turn to loaves, the water wine.A better garment then it will behoveBeggars to don, and sit them down to […]
Book Reviews
Spring 1948
The New Micah
A Masque Of Mercy by Robert Frost. Holt. $2.50 Though justice be thy plea, consider this, That in the course of justice none of us Should see salvation … […]
Book Reviews
Summer 1943
Elinor Wylie
Last Poems OF Elinor Wylie by Elinor Wylie. Alfred Knopf. $2.75 Except for the three “Subversive Sonnets,” nothing is here to add to what we already know of Elinor Wylie […]
Poetry
Spring 1940
To the Regent (On the Late Secessions)
Lost to Thee, Christ, lost to Thee and Thy NameSections of earth beneath Thy crown that came —Lost is the revenue and lost the fame:Save for a few, Thy governors […]
Book Reviews
Autumn 1939
The Velvet Arras
Huntsman, What Quarry? By Edna St. Vincent Millay. Harper. $2.00 Edna Millay’s most recent volume gives us another handful of the troubadour lyrics with which we have generally associated her […]
Three Poems
Spring 1953
Twelfth Night
The men take down the lights from the outdoor tree. On the garage roof wait the stubborn birds Because last week, though rather sparingly Some crumbs were shaken there, and […]