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Charis Greenwood Southwell

A Story That Must Be Told

A Story That Must Be Told

  • Journals
    • Student Note Book
    • 1949/Feb-1954/Apr (Autographs)
    • 1951/Apr-1952/Nov (Little Blue Diary)
    • 1953/Jan-1954/Sep (Five-Year Diary)
    • 1955/Nov-1960/Jul (Transcribed)
    • 1955/Nov-1958/Mar (Record Volume I)
    • 1958/Apr-1960/Jul (Record Volume II)
    • 1969/Sep-1969/Dec (1969 Calendars)
    • Memo Notepad
  • Biographies
    • Autobiography 1954
    • Autobiography 1966
    • Biography By Her Husband
    • Biography By Her Mother
    • Collected Memories
  • Plays
    • Emma
    • Pride and Prejudice
  • Short Stories
    • A Good Time
    • A Rock
    • Ali-be-Dared and the Sheik Who Had Nothing to Do
    • Achieving a Balance
    • (Cathy put the flowers in the middle of the table)
    • (Dianna Watson paused before the hall mirror to set her hat again.)
    • Hamlet and Eggheads
    • Hill House
    • Incident: Freckles
    • (On the morning of the great feast day)
    • The Caterpillar
    • The Hope Chest
    • The Letter
    • The Maid’s Day Off
    • The Violin Man
    • (There was something more or less interesting about the Brownings)
    • (I just came in from the field, and it is still spring.)
  • Poetry
    • Untitled Poetry
    • Titled Poetry
    • Unpublished Poems
    • Topic: Love

Untitled Poetry


(A man who knows the small tragedies)

(Ah so, the moving moon calls me to remember)

(Are you waiting there behind the door?)

(Do you ever wonder about grass?)

(His guilt injured mind)

(I am the weakest of all things)

(I dreamed of golden days that never were)

(I felt white wings like cobwebs on my face)

(I have this small spare gratitude to give)

(I hear the music of another spectrum)

(I hear the quick hard answers to the old man)

(I tried to make a perfect line)

(I’m afraid of my bewilderment)

(My well is dry and the old pump rusted and cracked)

(Oh my soul, my soul)

(Oh! Are you real?)

(Some said he rose and lived again)

(That there should be bright stars is yet a wonder)

(The guilded wheel spinning in the sun spiral)

(The power of God touches the reaches of space)

(The rim of the rock on top of the hill)

(We are afraid, We are afraid)

(What a poem does)

(What images can flow)


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