Poets (Abram Joseph Ryan Poems)
Poets are strange -- not always understood By many is their gift,Which is for evil or for mighty good -- ...
Poets are strange -- not always understood By many is their gift,Which is for evil or for mighty good -- ...
The olden golden stories of the world, That stirred the past, And now are dim as dreams,The lays and legends ...
The Master's voice was sweet: "I gave My life for thee;Bear thou this cross thro' pain and loss, Arise and ...
The brook that down the valley So musically drips,Flowed never half so brightly As the light laugh from her lips.Her ...
Superior General of the Congregation of the Missionand of the Sisters of Charity.A shadow slept folded in vestments, The dream ...
Far Away! what does it mean? A change of heart with a change of place?When footsteps pass from scene to ...
Lost! Lost! Lost!The cry went up from a sea --The waves were wild with an awful wrath,Not a light shone ...
Life's Vesper-bells are ringing In the temple of my heart,And yon sunset, sure, is singing "Nunc dimittis -- Now depart!"Ah! ...
Some reckon their age by years,Some measure their life by art;But some tell their days by the flood of their ...
Forth from its scabbard, pure and bright, Flashed the sword of Lee!Far in the front of the deadly fight,High o'er ...
The winds are singing a death-knell Out on the main to-night;The sky droops low -- and many a bark That ...
Out of the shadows of sadness,Into the sunshine of gladness, Into the light of the blest;Out of a land very ...
My SisterCometh a voice from a far-land! Beautiful, sad, and low;Shineth a light from the star-land! Down on the night ...
Sometimes the Saviour sleeps, and it is dark; For, oh! His eyes are this world's only light,And when they close ...
Go! heart of mine! the way is long -- The night is dark -- the place is far;Go! kneel and ...
The world is sweet, and fair, and bright, And joy aboundeth everywhere,The glorious stars crown every night, And thro' the ...
One bright memory shines like a starIn the sky of my spirit forever;And over my pathway it flashes afarA radiance ...
They come to ev'ry life -- sad, sunless days, With not a light all o'er their clouded skies;And thro' the ...
Sweet heaven's smileGleamed o'er the isle, That gems the dreamy sea.One far gone day,And flash'd its ray,More than a thousand ...
Over the silent sea of sleep, Far away! far away! Over a strange and starlit deep Where the beautiful shadows ...
S. M. A.Gone! and there's not a gleam of you, Faces that float into far away;Gone! and we can only ...
By sound of name, and touch of hand, Thro' ears that hear, and eyes that see,We know each other in ...
Before an AltarI wish I were the little key That locks Love's Captive in,And lets Him out to go and ...
The sunshine of thy Father's fame Sleeps in the shadows of thy eyes,And flashes sometimes when his name Like a ...
Flower! Flower, why repine? God knows each creature's place;He hides within me when I shine, And your leaves hide His ...
In the eclipses of your soul, and when you cry "O God! give more of rest and less of night," ...
We borrow, In our sorrow,From the sun of some to-morrow Half the light that gilds to-day; And the ...
Brief while they last, Long when they are gone;They catch from the past A light to still live on.Brief! yet ...
Gone! and they return no more, But they leave a light in the heart;The murmur of waves that kiss a ...
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