David Given Schwarm

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       All stood aloof, and at his partial moan       Smil’d through their tears; well knew that gentle band       Who in another’s fate now wept his own,       As in the accents of an unknown land       He sung new sorrow; sad Urania scann’d       The Stranger’s mien, and murmur’d: “Who art thou?”       He answer’d not, but with a…

       His head was bound with pansies overblown,       And faded violets, white, and pied, and blue;       And a light spear topp’d with a cypress cone,       Round whose rude shaft dark ivy-tresses grew       Yet dripping with the forest’s noonday dew,       Vibrated, as the ever-beating heart       Shook the weak hand that grasp’d it; of that crew       He…

The One Mockingbird Only Sings at Night Hannah Sanghee Park Far cars, numerous.Lullaby (by a lull)and I pretend (I-10 as ocean).And dream (DNA remade)and dream. Maker(remake me), better methis time. And waketo a chorus of onecourting throughalarms, beeping,trilling silver, song.Mating call after call(no answers, no takers).And now it collects moreand further from nature. Desperate thing (who is the pitied?),what…

       A pardlike Spirit beautiful and swift—       A Love in desolation mask’d—a Power       Girt round with weakness—it can scarce uplift       The weight of the superincumbent hour;       It is a dying lamp, a falling shower,       A breaking billow; even whilst we speak       Is it not broken? On the withering flower       The killing sun smiles brightly: on…

The Pope and Mussolini: The Secret History of Pius XI and the Rise of Fascism in Europe by David I. Kertzer My rating: 2 of 5 stars Ugh. This is a tough one… the book covers a topic poorly documented in English–there are not nearly enough books on Italian Fascism. There are not enough papal…