Category: Poetry
“The Pilgrims of Hope” appeared in _The Commonweal_ between March 1885 and July 1886, its title being decided on with the publication of the second part. Sections I, IV, and VIII were included in _Poems by the Way_ after the author abandoned his intention of revising it as a w...
SON, sorrow and wisdom he taught me, and sore I grieved and learned As we twain grew into one; and the heart within me burned With the very hopes of his heart. Ah, son, it is pi...
4. Chapter 4IT was strange indeed, that journey! Never yet had I crossed the sea Or looked on another people than the folk that had fostered me, And my heart rose up and fluttered as in the...
3. Chapter 3The crowd was growing and growing, and therewith the jeering grew; And now that the time was come for an ugly brawl I knew, When I saw how midst of the workmen some well-dressed...
1. Chapter 1“The Pilgrims of Hope” appeared in _The Commonweal_ between March 1885 and July 1886, its title being decided on with the publication of the second part. Sections I, IV, and VII...
5. Chapter 5It grows and grows—are we the same, The feeble band, the few? Or what are these with eyes aflame, And hands to deal and do? This is the host that bears the word, NO MASTER HIGH...