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 ...
The shades of night were brooding O'er the sea, the earth, the sky;The passing winds were wailing In a low, ...
When falls the soldier brave, Dead at the feet of wrong,The poet sings and guards his grave With sentinels of ...
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 ...
A Memorial Wreath to C. F. Sorrow:A garland for a grave! Fair flowers that bloom, And only bloom to ...
'Twas the dusky Hallowe'en --Hour of fairy and of wraith,When in many a dim-lit green,'Neath the stars' prophetic sheen,As the ...
From the mystic sidereal spaces,In the noon of a night 'mid of May,Came a spirit that murmured to me --Or ...
To Rev. Father E. Sourin, S.J., from A. J. Ryan; first, in memory of some happy hours passed in his ...
Thou art sleeping, brother, sleeping In thy lonely battle grave;Shadows o'er the past are creeping,Death, the reaper, still is reaping,Years ...
And "Happy! Happy! Happy!" Rang the bells of all the hours;"Shyly! Shyly! Shyly!" Looked and listened all the flowers;They were ...
One idle day --A mile or so of sunlit waves off shore -- In a breezeless bay, We ...
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 ...
Winter on the mountains Summer on the shore,The robes of sun-gleams woven, The lake's blue wavelets wore.Cold, white, against the ...
A Night Prayer Dark! Dark! Dark!The sun is set; the day is dead: Thy Feast has fled;My eyes ...
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 ...
Ah! days so dark with death's eclipse! Woe are we! woe are we! And the nights are ages long!From breaking ...
Only a few more years!Weary years!Only a few more tears!Bitter tears!And then - and then - like other men,I cease ...
How swift they go, Life's many years, With their winds of woe And their storms of tears,And ...
Each year cometh with all his days, Some are shadowed and some are bright;He beckons us on until he stays ...
Go down where the wavelets are kissing the shore,And ask of them why do they sigh?The poets have asked them ...
Strange Sea! why is it that you never rest? And tell me why you never go to sleep?Thou art like ...
Deep in the dark I hear the feet of God:He walks the world; He puts His holy handOn every sleeper ...
What ails the world? the poet cried; "And why does death walk everywhere? And why do tears fall anywhere? And ...
Far from "where the roses rest", Round the altar and the aisle,Which I loved, of all, the best -- I ...
Dreary! weary! Weary! dreary!Sighs my soul this lonely night. Farewell gladness! Welcome sadness!Vanished are my visions bright. Stars are shining! ...
A river went singing adown to the sea, A-singing -- low -- singing -- And the dim rippling river ...
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