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The bright doom

The bright doom

by John Hall Wheelock

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About this eBook

Author
Wheelock, John Hall, 1886-1978
Title
The bright doom : A book of poems
Original Publication
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927.
Credits
Tim Miller, Chuck Greif and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Language
English
LoC Class
PS: Language and Literatures: American and Canadian literature
Subject
American poetry -- 20th century
Category
Text
eBook-No.
79476
Project Gutenberg
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/79476
Release Date
August 30, 2026
Copyright
Public domain in the USA.

Contents

  1. 1.THE BRIGHT DOOM
  2. 2.CONTENTS — THE BRIGHT DOOM
  3. 3.I EARTH — NOON: AMAGANSETT BEACH — THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY — THE HOLY EARTH — LONELINESS WITHOUT END — THIS QUIET DUST — LONE BEAUTY — SEA-VOYAGE — STONE AND IRON — THE LOWLAND COUNTRY — AUTUMN ALONG THE BEACHES — SUNDOWN — THE HEART GROWS OLD — I — II — RETURN TO EARTH
  4. 4.II TUMULT — SOLITUDES — THOSE TWO — ONCE IN A LONELY HOUR — COMPASSION — TRUCE — THE DARK MEMORY — HUSHED MIDNIGHT — “I SOUGHT YOU” — UNREST — STORM-WIND — REVERBERATION
  5. 5.III SONGS AND MEDITATIONS — THE MULTITUDINOUS ONE — MEDITATION — THE MASQUE OF BEING — COMMUNION — THE VICTORY — THE YEARS — GOLGOTHA — AFFIRMATION Poem delivered before the Phi Beta Kappa Society, Harvard Chapter, Cambridge, June 24, 1927 — I — II — III — IV — THE WOVEN DOOM — SALUTATION

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