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I'M Comin' Daddy, Bryon Williams

The Griot

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Directions, Shaun Waters

The Griot

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Unseen Power, Bryon Williams

The Griot

This poem acknowledges an unseen presence that intervenes and protects the narrator from life's tribulations.

Chronic Love, Shaun Waters

The Griot

No abstract provided.

Larynx, Judithe Andre

The Griot

No abstract provided.

Words To Live By..."For Isaiah", Shaun Waters

The Griot

No abstract provided.

Lost Souls, Bryon Williams

The Griot

Poem about the effects of drug addiction.

An Anthology Of Holy Cross Verse, College Of The Holy Cross

Holy Cross Bookshelf

A collection of poetry compiled from The Holy Cross Purple, a literary publication produced by the students of the College of the Holy Cross. The selections included in this anthology appeared in The Holy Cross Purple between 1920 and 1937.

The volume's endpapers are an illustrated map of the college campus circa 1937.

Spine title: Anthology of Holy Cross Verse: 1920-1937

The Purple, June 1926

The Purple

The Purple is a student publication offering news of the month, editorials, poetry, college news and alumni news. This issue contains the following:

• Ode to the Class Tree
• The First Press Agent
• The Comfortress
• Moon Madness
• Our World
• Variety, the Price of Life
• The Holy Eucharist
• Lazarus
• Umbrellas
• A Kiss in a Shadowed Doorway
• Lament for the Old Order
• Life and Letters of Alice Meynell
• Memory
• The Brook
• Mors, Te Saluto
• Today and Tomorrow
• Commencement
• Under the Rose
• Editorials
• Alumni Notes
• Purple Patches
• Athletics

The Purple, May 1926

The Purple

The Purple is a student publication offering news of the month, editorials, poetry, college news and alumni news. This issue contains the following:

• Apple Blossoms
• The Last Cigarette
• Regeneration
• Stonewalls
• The Bird's Song
• The Fate of My Ship of Dreams
• Visions of Spring
• The Rain
• The Mourner
• Undertones
• Laughter
• Solvitur Arris Giems
• Fantasy on a May Evening
• Le Premier Baiser
• To Grandmother On Mother's Day
• My Friend the Book
• The Capulets at Home
• The Poppy
• The Lighthouse Birds
• Under the Rose
• Editorials
• Alumni Notes
• Purple Patches
• Athletics
• Advertisements
• Images; The Purple Staff, Holy Cross Faculty

The Purple, April 1926

The Purple

The Purple is a student publication offering news of the month, editorials, poetry, college news and alumni news. This issue contains the following:

• April
• Jest and Contra Jet
• Alternative
• Sonnet
• Sir Thomas Moore
• Obscurity
• Ghosts in Shakespeare
• The Wind and the Waves
• Tasso
• To Mary on Good Friday
• Old Letters
• Impressions of a Season
• To a Materialist
• Vocal Images
• Senex to Leuca
• A Man of Few Words
• Query Written in a Wood at Night
• Under the Rose
• Editorials
• Alumni Notes
• Purple Patches
• Athletics

The Purple, March 1926

The Purple

The Purple is a student publication offering news of the month, editorials, poetry, college news and alumni news. This issue contains the following:

• Table of Contents
• Old Dreams
• Donn Byrne
• Laus Deo
• Rupert Brooke
• Beethoven
• Sic Sit, Domine!
• The Fog and the Rain
• Sweet Sleep
• Corneille and "The Cid"
• O Crudelis
• Some Little Boys
• Poetry and Philosophy
• Lilies
• The Fur Coat
• The Song of the Forge
• Under the Rose
• Editorials
• Alumni Notes
• Purple Patches
• Athletics

The Purple, February 1926

The Purple

The Purple is a student publication offering news of the month, editorials, poetry, college news and alumni news. This issue contains the following:

• February
• Prince Rom
• Crazy - Quilts
• The Slippers of the Goddess
• Musings
• Hyacinth
• Snowballs and Roses
• History of an Ideal
• Pipes
• Ballad of a Phantom Port
• Reverie
• Winter Sunset
• Wordsworth and Poetic Diction
• The Chinook Wind
• The Value of Poetry
• Amor Caelorum
• Laughing Children
• The Case Against Journalistic Criticism
• Under the Rose
• Editorials
• Alumni Notes
• Purple Patches
• College Chronicle
• Athletics

The Purple, January 1926

The Purple

The Purple is a student publication offering news of the month, editorials, poetry, college news and alumni news. This issue contains the following:

• Silhouette
• The Reserves
• Harbor Lights
• And the Day Was Given Over to Games
• The Snowflake
• Some Literary Beginnings
• Reqniem
• Reverie
• Snow Blindness
• The North Wind
• Several Hamlets
• Evening by the Shore
• On Reading "Peter Pan"
• Under the Rose
• Editorials
• Alumni Notes

The Purple, December 1925

The Purple

The Purple is a student publication offering news of the month, editorials, poetry, college news and alumni news. This issue contains the following:

• December
• Lament
• Sol Y Sombra
• One Knocking
• Phantasie
• Sole Mio
• Parable Spoken to a Lady
• Ens Rationis
• The Trees
• Rain on the Roof
• As the Gifts of the Wise Men
• The Mount and the Meadow
• The Sky
• The First Shepherd
• Reflections of a Dog
• Atra Cura
• Gilbert K. Chesterton -- The Poet
• The Stable's Soliloquy
• Sunset Fire
• Under the Rose
• Editorials
• Alumni Notes
• Purple Patches
• Athletics

The Purple, November 1925

The Purple

The Purple is a student publication offering news of the month, editorials, poetry, college news and alumni news. This issue contains the following:

• November
• Hoffmann
• Sonnet
• The Autumn's Treasure
• The Old Night
• Moods
• The Goddess
• New York Noon-Time Vignettes
• Stars
• Day Dreams
• Three Nights
• Our Gang
• Broken Friendship
• The Puritan
• Tears
• Snowfall
• "Ads"
• The Sunrise
• The Crudest Words
• On Introducing One Another
• The Seaman's Song
• Under the Rose
• Editorials
• Alumni Notes
• Purple Patches
• Athletics
• Advertisements

The Purple, October 1925

The Purple

The Purple is a student publication offering news of the month, editorials, poetry, college news and alumni news. This issue contains the following:

• Table of Contents
• In October
• The Humor of a Sage
• To E. On Her Birthday
• Nomenclature
• The Man With a Face
• The Sailor's Song
• Pseudo-Translations and Pseudo-Originals: Chatterton
• Indian Summer
• Yesterday's Tomorrow
• Evening
• Spiritual Awakening
• On Going to the Theatre
• Invocation
• Three Late Victorians
• The Old Home
• Under the Rose
• Editorials
• Alumni Notes
• Purple Patches
• Athletics
• Advertisements

The Purple, June 1925

The Purple

The Purple is a student publication offering news of the month, editorials, poetry, college news and alumni news. This issue contains the following:

• Advertisements
• Table of Contents For June, 1925
• Ode To Class Tree
• Exit the Hero
• Lady Luck
• Love's Way
• Spenser's Introduction to the Faery Queen
• The Trees at Dan
• On Reading Gilmore's "Afterthoughts"
• Mother
• Commencement Addresses
• To the Holy Cross Grave Yard
• Under the Rose
• Editorials
• Purple Patches
• Images; Holy Cross Baseball Champions 1925

The Purple, May 1925

The Purple

The Purple is a student publication offering news of the month, editorials, poetry, college news and alumni news. This issue contains the following:

• Advertisements
• Table of Contents for May, 1925
• Maytime
• The Colossus of the Avenue
• The Year's Debut
• A Rhapsody In Blue
• The Sun-Dial
• A May Shrine
• Concerning the Ubiquitous "Laudator"
• Spring
• The Goal
• Habit
• The City's Lights
• The Gentle Art of Fighting Dragons
• Sonnet
• Boswell, His Character and His Genius
• To A Quill
• Robert Burns and His Lyric Poetry
• The Call to Arms
• Foster Stearns, Librarian at Holy Cross College
• Under the Rose
• Editorials
• Purple Patches
• Images; Foster …

The Purple, April 1925

The Purple

The Purple is a student publication offering news of the month, editorials, poetry, college news and alumni news. This issue contains the following:

• Advertisements
• Table of Contents for April, 1925
• To Mary Magdalen
• Skittles
• Vision of Spring
• Dayspring
• A Philosophy of Shaving
• Oberon and the Popular
• Genius and Common Sense
• The Spider
• Gossip
• Dickens and Thackeray
• Why Pose?
• Rainy Days
• An Easter Prayer
• And Seeing They Shall Believe
• The City Below the Hill
• Vox Populi -- Et Pes
• To --
• Streets
• Victors
• A Tribute
• Under the Rose
• Editorials
• Purple Patches
• Images; Rev. William F. Hafey

The Purple, March 1925

The Purple

The Purple is a student publication offering news of the month, editorials, poetry, college news and alumni news. This issue contains the following:

• Advertisements
• Table of Contents for March, 1925
• Kindred
• Apostles of Culture
• Love and Laughter
• Little Song
• Why Leprechauns Have One Large Ear
• March Winds
• A Rondeau to March
• The Congo
• The Rustle of Spring
• The Milkman's Hour
• Pierian Rose
• Philippe
• Lent
• The Automaton
• The Haven
• The Plotter
• A Song of Spring
• The Child
• Under the Rose
• Editorials
• Purple Patches
• Ex Senator David I. Walsh and Washington
• Advertisements
• Images; Banquet in Honor of Ex-Senator David I. Walsh

The Purple, February 1925

The Purple

The Purple is a student publication offering news of the month, editorials, poetry, college news and alumni news. This issue contains the following:

• Snow
• Laughter
• Friendship
• The Failure
• Miss Liberty
• Hats and Men
• Doveo
• The Winged Sin-Disc
• To a Child on the Sea Shore
• To a Country Lad
• Psychology Without A Soul
• To G.T.F.
• The Blue Scarab
• Lottery
• Rafael Sabatini and Jeffery Farnol
• Under the Rose
• Editorials
• College Chronicle
• Advertisement
• Alumni
• Athletics
• Images; The Cast of "Richard III"

The Purple, January 1925

The Purple

The Purple is a student publication offering news of the month, editorials, poetry, college news and alumni news. This issue contains the following:

• To a Dew Drop
• The Tragedy
• The Kings
• Backyards
• The Birth of the Rose
• Psychoanalysis and the New Psychology
• Life
• Habit
• Altar Blooms
• Westward Ho!
• Rafael Sabantini
• The Land of Long Ago
• Under the Rose
• Editorials
• Entre Nous
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Athletics
• Images; The Football Squad

The Purple, December 1924

The Purple

The Purple is a student publication offering news of the month, editorials, poetry, college news and alumni news. This issue contains the following:

• While They Slept
• Santa Claus or Soviets
• Quid Retribuam
• Our Modern Verse
• The Yacht
• Deuces
• Nocturne - A Garden by the Sea
• A New Fad
• Glimpses of Life
• To a Snowflake
• Hypnotism and Spiritism
• Dreams
• Drifting
• Under the Rose
• Editorials
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Advertisement
• Athletics

The Purple, October 1924

The Purple

The Purple is a student publication offering news of the month, editorials, poetry, college news and alumni news. This issue contains the following:

• The Silences of Thought
• Nothing is New
• Shadows
• The Seventh Arm of Ja-No
• The Birth of Music
• Wits, Wags, and Nincompoops
• World-Weary
• Glimpses of Gotham
• Revista
• The Scene Shall Never Fit the Deed
• The Goldenrod
• Joseph Conrad
• The Sacrifice
• Under the Rose
• Editorials
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Athletics
• Advertisements
• Images; Rev. Joseph N. Dinand

The Purple, November 1924

The Purple

The Purple is a student publication offering news of the month, editorials, poetry, college news and alumni news. This issue contains the following:

• Ephemera
• The Open Road -- An Essay
• Hope
• Glimpses of Life
• My Friend
• A Poet's Vision Vision of Autumn
• Reunion
• Comme le Roi
• Sonnet to a Dead Child
• Walter Hampden
• I'd Like to Know
• The Sociability of Mail Boxes
• Indian Summer
• Rationality and the Animal
• The Elf on the Sugar Bowl
• Flapperettes
• The Forgotten Art
• The Winged Explorer
• Under the Rose
• Editorials
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Advertisement
• Athletics
• Images; The New Stadium, Dinand Library

The Purple, June 1924

The Purple

The Purple is a student publication offering news of the month, editorials, poetry, college news and alumni news. This issue contains the following:

• Ode to the Class Tree
• Upon the Lintel
• Fog
• The Soul of Education
• To Killeen
• "Frater Ave Atque Vale"
• Illusions
• Rain
• John F. Callanan, LL.B.
• Surcease
• The Paraguayan Reductions
• To the Counselor of My Youth
• Frederick Oznam
• The Power of Man
• Under the Rose
• Editorials
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Athletics
• Advertisements
• Images; Undefeated Holy Cross Baseball Team 1924,

The Purple, May 1924

The Purple

The Purple is a student publication offering news of the month, editorials, poetry, college news and alumni news. This issue contains the following:

• The Memorial Chapel
• Told in Gath
• May
• Sea-Fever
• Steamah-Time on D'Eastun Sho'
• Jonathan Swift---Ecclesiastical Politician
• Transformation
• The "Twin Lights"
• Children's Voices
• A Farrago of Fools
• Stop, Thief!
• A Prophecy For Erin
• Eighteenth Century Worthies
• Old Tower Bell
• "Save That Kick"
• The New Chapel
• Under the Rose
• Editorials
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Athletics
• Advertisements
• Images; Holy Cross Purple Staff

The Purple, April 1924

The Purple

The Purple is a student publication offering news of the month, editorials, poetry, college news and alumni news. This issue contains the following:

• Magdalen at the Tomb
• David Dreams
• April
• Johnson - The Man
• Man and Time
• Glimpses of Gotham - Downtown
• Ballade of the Little Knight Errant
• Fanny Burney - Madame D'Arblay
• "Adventus Veris"
• Fr. Neil Boyton, S.J.,'08
• L'Envoi
• "Thy Youth is Renewed Like Like the Eagle's"
• A Philosophy Circle
• April Friendships
• Triolets
• The Avenger
• Under the Rose
• Editorials
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Athletics
• Advertisements
• Images; Track Team Members, St. Joseph's Memoria Chapel Consecrated May 7, 1924

The Purple, March 1924

The Purple

The Purple is a student publication offering news of the month, editorials, poetry, college news and alumni news. This issue contains the following:

• Table of Contents
• Saint Patrick's Day
• Lyrical or Lack-a-daisical
• Hammer 'Gainst Nail
• Men or Machines
• The Other Trail
• A Day in Ancient Rome
• Retrospection
• The Younger Generation
• The Olive Club Speaks
• The Lawyer and the Classical College
• Grandfather
• Lecture-Lights
• Fallen Sentinels
• The Joker and the Blind Pig
• "Solvitur Arris Giemps"
• Communications
• Under the Rose
• Editorials
• College Chronicle
• Alumni
• Athletics
• Advertisements