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...
Read Full Biography

---

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, ...

Read All Poems

---

William Vaughn Moody Quotes

Read All Quotes

---

Comments about William Vaughn Moody

• Rprosperolane: poems and plays of william vaughn moody vol. ii prose plays
• Rprosperolane: estranging dawn life and works of william vaughn moody maurice f brown
• Rprosperolane: the fire bringer play in biblical drama trilogy william vaughn moody
• Magicroughme: estranging dawn life and works of william vaughn moody maurice f brown
• Rprosperolane: poems and plays of william vaughn moody vol. ii prose plays

Read All Comments