Their Story Runneth Thus (Abram Joseph Ryan Poems)
Two little children played among the flowers,Their mothers were of kin, tho' far apart;The children's ages were the very sameE'en ...
Two little children played among the flowers,Their mothers were of kin, tho' far apart;The children's ages were the very sameE'en ...
They ask me to sing them a Christmas song That with musical mirth shall ring;How know I that the world's ...
A MysteryHis face was sad; some shadow must have hungAbove his soul; its folds, now falling dark,Now almost bright; but ...
Fell the snow on the festival's vigil And surpliced the city in white;I wonder who wove the pure flakelets? Ask ...
Father Keeler died February 28, 1880, in Mobile, Ala. - Inscribed to his ...
And "Happy! Happy! Happy!" Rang the bells of all the hours;"Shyly! Shyly! Shyly!" Looked and listened all the flowers;They were ...
The priests stood waiting in the holy place, Impatient of delay (Isaiah had been read),When sudden up ...
To the Children of Mary of the Cathedral of MobileIn the mystical dim of the temple, In the dream-haunted dim ...
Unroll Erin's flag! fling its folds to the breeze!Let it float o'er the land, let it flash o'er the seas!Lift ...
Just when the gentle hand of spring Came fringing the trees with bud and leaf,And when the blades the warm ...
Dreary! weary! Weary! dreary!Sighs my soul this lonely night. Farewell gladness! Welcome sadness!Vanished are my visions bright. Stars are shining! ...
Two lights on a lowly altar; Two snowy cloths for a Feast;Two vases of dying roses; The morning comes from ...
At last the dream of youth Stands fair and bright before me,The sunshine of the home of truth Falls tremulously ...
Be you near, or be you far,Let my blessing, like a star, Shine upon you everywhere!And in each lone evening ...
Far Away! what does it mean? A change of heart with a change of place?When footsteps pass from scene to ...
Into a temple vast and dim,Solemn and vast and dim,Just when the last sweet Vesper Hymn Was floating far away,With ...
To-day a bird on wings as white as foam That crests the blue-gray wave,With the vesper light upon its breast, ...
The tears that trickled down our eyes, They do not touch the earth to-day;But soar like angels to the skies, ...
Better than grandeur, better than gold,Than rank and titles a thousand fold,Is a healthy body and a mind at ease,And ...
Weary hearts! weary hearts! by the cares of life oppressed,Ye are wand'ring in the shadows -- ye are sighing for ...
Some day in Spring, When earth is fair and glad,And sweet birds sing, And fewest hearts are sad -- ...
Some reckon their age by years,Some measure their life by art;But some tell their days by the flood of their ...
They come, as the breeze comes over the foam, Waking the waves that are sinking to sleep --The fairest of ...
The moan of a wintry soul Melted into a summer song,And the words, like the wavelet's roll, Moved murmuringly along.And ...
Before an AltarI wish I were the little key That locks Love's Captive in,And lets Him out to go and ...
Star! Star, why dost thou shine Each night upon my brow?Why dost thou make me dream the dreams That I ...
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