The Altar Boy (John O’Brien Poems)
Now McEvoy was altar-boyAs long as I remember;He was, bedad, a crabbed lad,And sixty come December.Faith, no one dared to ...
Now McEvoy was altar-boyAs long as I remember;He was, bedad, a crabbed lad,And sixty come December.Faith, no one dared to ...
(For Fr. C. L. O'Donnell)The interlacing treesArise in Gothic traceries,As if a vast cathedral deep and dim;And through the solemn ...
Steal from the meadows, rob the tall green hills,Ravish my orchard's blossoms, let me bindA crown of orchard flowers and ...
They ask me to sing them a Christmas song That with musical mirth shall ring;How know I that the world's ...
I wonder if the spell, the mystery,That like a haze about your silence clings,Moulding your void until we seem to ...
I.If thou hadst been a sculptor, what a raceOf forms divine had thenceforth filled the land!Methinks I see thee, glorious ...
(NORTHERN MEXICO, 1640)As you look from the plaza at Leon westYou can see her house, but the view is bestFrom ...
Lo, in the sanctuaried East,Day, a dedicated priestIn all his robes pontifical exprest,Lifteth slowly, lifteth sweetly,From out its Orient tabernacle ...
"My friend, why are the Great Gods in conference?(In my dream) Anu, Enlil, and Shamash held a council,and Anu spoke ...
Mesrob, standing against the Armenian centuries, You, rock of diamond, You, undiscoverable lighthouse of consciousness, Which sows flashes From the ...
I O-Shichi, all my heart today Is dreaming of your fate; And of your little house that ...
Nature is but the outward vestibuleWhich God has placed before an unseen shrine,The Visible is but a fair, bright valeThat ...
Give over, O sea! You never shall reach Nirvana! Your tides, like the tidal generations, ever shall rise and ...
I see thine image through my tears to-night,And yet to-day I saw thee smiling. HowRefer the cause?—Beloved, is it thouOr ...
Many have loved you with lips and fingersAnd lain with you till the moon went out;Many have brought you lover's ...
Six days a king of trade, his mightDowns opposition; Sunday dawnHe puts his spats and piety on,To greater King an ...
Velvet soft the night-star glowed Over the untrodden road, Through the giant glades of yew ...
Velvet soft the night-star glowed Over the untrodden road, Through the giant glades of yew ...
I heard an angel speak last night, And he said 'Write! Write a Nation's curse for me, And send it ...
I see thine image through my tears to-night, And yet to-day I saw thee smiling. How Refer the cause?-Beloved, is ...
We have all of us read how the Israelites fled From Egypt with Pharaoh in eager pursuit of 'em, And ...
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