A Winter Minister (Michael Earls Poems)
(For Fr. C. L. O'Donnell)The interlacing treesArise in Gothic traceries,As if a vast cathedral deep and dim;And through the solemn ...
(For Fr. C. L. O'Donnell)The interlacing treesArise in Gothic traceries,As if a vast cathedral deep and dim;And through the solemn ...
If baby only wanted to, he could fly up to heaven this moment. It is not for nothing that he does ...
"What comes from your willinghands I take. I beg for nothingmore." "Yes, yes, I know you, modestmendicant, you ask for all ...
Bleak, in dark rags of clouds, the day begins,That passed so splendidly but yesterday,Wrapped in magnificence of gold and gray,And ...
ACROSS the trodden continent of years To shrines of long ago,My heart, a hooded pilgrim, turns with tears-- For could I knowThat ...
Tattered mendicant,I give you alms ...I toss loose coinInto your palms.I give you largess ...My heavy packInvisibleUpon my back.You finger ...
Charity, Charity - parson and priest Ever in church and in chapel have taught -"Give ye in charity e'en to ...
I stood upon a crowded thoroughfare,Within a city's confines, where were metAll classes and conditions, and surveyed,From a secluded niche ...
An angel burdened with self-pityCame out of heaven to a modern city.He saw a beggar on the street,Where the tides ...
Next To Everest Highest Of MountainsO white priest of Eternity, aroundWhose lofty summit veiling clouds ariseOf the earth's immemorial sacrificeTo ...
Swe-e-et! Swe-e-et! Low at first and flattering, Full of soft seductiveness on a wheedling note.Who comes in mercy now, crumbs ...
"LET me no more a mendicant Without the gate Of the world's kingly palace wait; Morning is spent, The sentinels ...
Go forth in life, oh friend! not seeking love; A mendicant, that with imploring eye And outstretched hand asks of ...
Many have loved you with lips and fingersAnd lain with you till the moon went out;Many have brought you lover's ...
THE PROLOGUE. This worthy limitour, this noble Frere, He made always a manner louring cheer* *countenance Upon the Sompnour; but ...
A Rock, A River, A Tree Hosts to species long since departed, Mark the mastodon. The dinosaur, who left dry ...
AGAINST THE GRAIN "Oxford be silent, I this truth must write Leeds hath for rarities undone thee quite." - William ...
If baby only wanted to, he could fly up to heaven this moment. It is not for nothing that he ...
"What comes from your willing hands I take. I beg for nothing more." "Yes, yes, I know you, modest mendicant, ...
There was a rich old gentleman Lived on a lonely moor in Switzerland, And he was very hard to the ...
(What the Mendicant Said ) The moon's a monk, unmated, Who walks his cell, the sky. His strength is that ...
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