Cantares

Cantares

Canticles and Poems of Youth

"This collection contains poems composed during the years 1925 through 1932 and gathered privately by the poet Fray (or Friar) Angélico Chávez of New Mexico who gained wide renown as an artist and man of letters.
Written in English (save for a handful composed in Latin and Spanish), these poems were grouped by Fray Angélico himself under the headings of Cantares de Cibola (verse on Southwestern themes)

  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Contents
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
    • Fray Angélico’s Literary Prose and World of Poetics
    • Cantares: Canticles and Poems of Youth 1925–1932 The Beginning is the End
  • Notes
  • Cantares de Cíbola
    • Cantares
    • The Desert Artist
    • Pegasus
    • The Paintings
    • A Poet’s House
    • Cinquains to the Padre
    • I Wondered and I Asked Myself
    • The Painting Poet
    • “Foreign” New Mexico
    • On the Alameda
    • Roses
    • Mountain Padres
    • Night in the Canyon
    • City of Saint Francis
    • A Burro on the Plaza
    • Santa Fe Skyline
    • The Deserted Mission
    • My Country
    • The Archbishop’s Garden
    • Cross of the Friar-Martyrs
    • Dawn at the Missions
    • Dust
    • Navajo
    • The Mission Guadalupe
    • A Song of the Padre
    • The Worshippers
    • Fray Serra
    • A Litany of Pueblos
    • In the Arms of the Pine Tree
    • Ácoma
    • Pecos Ruins
    • A Dance in Cochití
    • Cíbola’s Cathedral
    • Wings of Death
    • Saint Michael’s Window
    • Go with God
    • Parable
    • Ballad of a Fiddler
    • Tango
  • Cantares de María
    • The Lady of the Snows
    • May Gems
    • Queen of the Friars Minor
    • Our Lady’s First Communion
    • Sermons in Stones
    • Dolores
    • For a Valentine
    • An Idyll Belvedere
    • Thou Heardest First My Lullaby
    • A Carol Mystic
    • Madonna by Murillo
    • On a Street-car
    • The Priestess
    • The Visitation
    • Doncella
    • A la Conquistadora
    • A La Conquistadora
    • The Virgin of Guadalupe
    • Esther
    • Hyacinth
    • Mother’s Day
    • Christmas Lullaby
    • A Legend of the Holy Family—
  • Cantares Franciscanos
    • Brown Shadow
    • Stigmata of Saint Francis
    • Il Ricchio Poverello
    • The Friar’s Christmas Gift
    • The Jester’s Carol
    • Serus in Coelum Redeas
    • Franciscan Poet
    • Silly Lyric
    • In Memoriam
    • To Saint Paschal
    • A Seraphic Serenade
    • Little Poor Man to Little Boy Blue
    • The Fairy Friar
    • Joannis Duns Scoti
    • Jesum Liliaque
    • Jesus and Lilies
    • Ventramour
    • Legend of The Bl. Ramón Lull, O.F.M.
    • Sonnet to a Modern Young Lady
    • Father and Son Before Saint Anthony
    • Franciscans in China
    • If Miracles
    • Antonian Thoughts
    • Hymn of the Brown Marines
    • Vision of Fray del Alba—
    • Vignettes
      • Son of Bouillon
      • The Son of St. Augustine
      • The Son of St. Francis
      • The Son of the Testament
      • The Son of the Eucharist
      • The Son of Nature
      • The Barefoot Boy
  • Cantares Varios
    • Canticle of the Rainbow
    • Jesus at the Well
    • To Witter Bynner
    • A New Year Lyric
    • Christmas in Heaven
    • Little Christmas
    • Ruth
    • The Holy Innocents
    • Simon Peter
    • Saint Therese
    • First Poem
    • Mother
    • Seminarian’s Prayer
    • The Little Flower
    • Prayers
    • Even Song
    • Chancel Light
    • At Night
    • I Sat with Sorrow
    • Books
    • Sonnet
    • My Shepherd-Host
    • The Voice of Dismas
    • Makers of the Cross
    • At Calvary
    • Easter Lilies
    • Priesthood
    • Departure
    • Golden Stairs
    • Reformation
    • A King to a Maid
    • Midsummer Night’s Dream
    • Thanatopsis
    • Communion
    • Trees
    • A Shooting-Star
    • The Old Organ
    • The Loving Shepherd
    • Mighty Builders
    • Portrait of a Catechist
    • To a Young Seminarian
    • The Rondeau
    • Wake Me the Birds
    • Ring Easter Bells
    • The Hiders
    • Surprised
    • Lines
    • Reassured
    • ‘Twas the Last Rose . . .
    • Sonnet from the Spanish of Calderón
    • Prisoner
    • Beauty and the Hidden Truth
    • Oculos Habent
    • The Wren
    • To a Diminutive Chickadee
    • The Pagan
    • Giralda
    • The Angelus
    • At the Holy Sepulchre
    • VI Station
    • Catholic Negro Spiritual
    • Advertisement
    • Death of a Virgin
    • Baptism
    • Eucharistic Rubáiyát
    • What Little Flower
    • Shepherds
    • To a Little Orphan Girl
    • The Humblest Saint
    • Tabernacle Scene
    • Love’s Tender Prisoner
    • Sonnet of the Via Crucis
    • Hymn to Saint Louis
    • Heritage
    • All For Love
  • Books by Fray Angélico Chávez

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