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, ...
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 ...
From the mystic sidereal spaces,In the noon of a night 'mid of May,Came a spirit that murmured to me --Or ...
The priests stood waiting in the holy place, Impatient of delay (Isaiah had been read),When sudden up ...
Winter on the mountains Summer on the shore,The robes of sun-gleams woven, The lake's blue wavelets wore.Cold, white, against the ...
Each year cometh with all his days, Some are shadowed and some are bright;He beckons us on until he stays ...
Only a few more years!Weary years!Only a few more tears!Bitter tears!And then - and then - like other men,I cease ...
I walk down the Valley of Silence -Down the dim, voiceless valley - alone!And I hear not the fall of ...
Lines addressed to the daughter of Richard Dalton Williams.Child of the heart of a child of sweetest song! The poet's ...
Far from "where the roses rest", Round the altar and the aisle,Which I loved, of all, the best -- I ...
Just when the gentle hand of spring Came fringing the trees with bud and leaf,And when the blades the warm ...
The waves were weary, and they went to sleep; The winds were hushed; The starlight flushedThe furrowed face ...
Dreary! weary! Weary! dreary!Sighs my soul this lonely night. Farewell gladness! Welcome sadness!Vanished are my visions bright. Stars are shining! ...
Poets are strange -- not always understood By many is their gift,Which is for evil or for mighty good -- ...
Two lights on a lowly altar; Two snowy cloths for a Feast;Two vases of dying roses; The morning comes from ...
Be you near, or be you far,Let my blessing, like a star, Shine upon you everywhere!And in each lone evening ...
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 ...
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, ...
Weary hearts! weary hearts! by the cares of life oppressed,Ye are wand'ring in the shadows -- ye are sighing for ...
Go! heart of mine! the way is long -- The night is dark -- the place is far;Go! kneel and ...
Two loves came up a long, wide aisle, And knelt at a low, white gate;One -- tender and true, with ...
Flower! Flower, why repine? God knows each creature's place;He hides within me when I shine, And your leaves hide His ...
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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