St. Mary’s (Abram Joseph Ryan Poems)
Back to where the roses restRound a shrine of holy name,(Yes -- they knew me when I came)More of peace ...
Back to where the roses restRound a shrine of holy name,(Yes -- they knew me when I came)More of peace ...
A hundred thousand souls a dayAre passing one by one awayIn Christless guilt and gloom;Without one ray of hope or ...
The pain and laughter of the day are doneSo strangely hushed and still the long ward seems,Only the Sister's candle ...
Beneath the golden eagle's shade Gleam restless eyes of steely grey,That look out calmly, unafraid, From brows deep-tann'd ...
Sweetheart, be my sweetheart When birds are on the wing,When bee and bud and babbling flood Bespeak the birth of ...
Maiden of the downcast eye,Who, when evening draweth nigh,Windest oft thy devious wayBeneath the sober twilight grey,Pursuing still the lonely ...
[From the Morlack.) WHAT is yonder white thing in the forest? Is it snow, or can it swans perchance be? ...
Sweetheart, be my sweetheart When birds are on the wing, When bee and bud and babbling flood Bespeak the birth ...
To see a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the ...
Whoever you are as you read this, Whatever your trouble or grief, I want you to know and to heed ...
Now the declining sun 'gan downwards bend From higher heavens, and from his locks did send A milder flame, when ...
APRILL: Ægloga QuartaTHENOT & HOBBINOLL Tell me good Hobbinoll, what garres thee greete? What? hath some Wolfe thy tender Lambes ...
Wars have been and wars will be Till the human race is run; Battles red by land and sea, Never ...
(From the early Anglo-Saxon text) May I for my own self song's truth reckon, Journey's jargon, how I in harsh ...
Bring down the moon for genteel Janet; She's too refined for this gross planet. She wears garments and you wear ...
What are we first? First, animals; and next Intelligences at a leap; on whom Pale lies the distant shadow of ...
So swift the hours are moving Unto the time unproved: Farewell my love unloving, Farewell my love beloved! What! are ...
It is the longest night in all the year, Near on the day when the Lord Christ was born; Six ...
Love is enough: draw near and behold me Ye who pass by the way to your rest and your laughter, ...
Gold on her head, and gold on her feet, And gold where the hems of her kirtle meet, And a ...
But therewith the sun rose upward and lightened all the earth, And the light flashed up to the heavens from ...
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