Who is William Vaughn Moody

William Vaughn Moody (July 8, 1869 – October 17, 1910) was an American dramatist and poet. Moody was author of The Great Divide, first presented under the title of The Sabine Woman at the Garrick Theatre in Chicago on April 12, 1906. His poetic dramas are The Masque of Judgment (1900), The Fire Bringer (1904), and The Death of Eve (left undone at his death). His best-known poem is "An Ode In Time Of Hesitation," on the Spanish-American War; others include "Gloucester Moor," "On A Soldier Fallen In The Philippines," "The Brute," "Harmonics" (his only sonnet), "Until the Troubling of the Waters," "The Departure," "How The Mead-Slave Was Set Free," "The Daguerreotype," and "The Death of Eve." His poems everywhere bespeak the social conscience of the progressive era (1893-1916) in which he...
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William Vaughn Moody Poems

  • The Ride Back
    Before the coming of the dark, he dreamed
    An old-world faded story: of a knight,
    Much like in need to him, who was no knight!
    And of a road, much like the road his soul ...
  • A Dialogue In Purgatory
    Poi disse un altro.... "Io son Buonconte:
    Giovanna o altri non ha di me cura;
    Per ch' io vo tra costor con bassa fronte."
    ...
  • The Golden Journey
    All day he drowses by the sail
    With dreams of her, and all night long
    The broken waters are at song
    Of how she lingers, wild and pale, ...
  • Until The Troubling Of The Waters
    Two hours, two hours: God give me strength for it!
    He who has given so much strength to me
    And nothing to my child, must give to-day
    What more I need to try and save my child ...
  • Road-hymn For The Start
    Leave the early bells at chime,
    Leave the kindled hearth to blaze,
    Leave the trellised panes where children linger out the waking-time,
    Leave the forms of sons and fathers trudging through the misty ways, ...
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