A Christmas Chant (Abram Joseph Ryan Poems)
They ask me to sing them a Christmas song That with musical mirth shall ring;How know I that the world's ...
They ask me to sing them a Christmas song That with musical mirth shall ring;How know I that the world's ...
Fell the snow on the festival's vigil And surpliced the city in white;I wonder who wove the pure flakelets? Ask ...
When falls the soldier brave, Dead at the feet of wrong,The poet sings and guards his grave With sentinels of ...
To Rev. Father E. Sourin, S.J., from A. J. Ryan; first, in memory of some happy hours passed in his ...
Go down where the wavelets are kissing the shore,And ask of them why do they sigh?The poets have asked them ...
What ails the world? the poet cried; "And why does death walk everywhere? And why do tears fall anywhere? And ...
Lines addressed to the daughter of Richard Dalton Williams.Child of the heart of a child of sweetest song! The poet's ...
Just when the gentle hand of spring Came fringing the trees with bud and leaf,And when the blades the warm ...
Poets are strange -- not always understood By many is their gift,Which is for evil or for mighty good -- ...
God knows all things -- but we In darkness walk our ways;We wonder what will be, We ask the nights ...
Better than grandeur, better than gold,Than rank and titles a thousand fold,Is a healthy body and a mind at ease,And ...
Go! heart of mine! the way is long -- The night is dark -- the place is far;Go! kneel and ...
The Poet is the loneliest man that lives; Ah me! God makes him so -- The sea hath its ebb ...
Brief while they last, Long when they are gone;They catch from the past A light to still live on.Brief! yet ...
Wilt pray for me? They tell me I have Fame;I plead with thee, Sometimes just fold my nameIn beautiful "Hail ...
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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