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 ...
Fell the snow on the festival's vigil And surpliced the city in white;I wonder who wove the pure flakelets? Ask ...
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 ...
To Rev. Father E. Sourin, S.J., from A. J. Ryan; first, in memory of some happy hours passed in his ...
To the Children of Mary of the Cathedral of MobileIn the mystical dim of the temple, In the dream-haunted dim ...
My brow is bent beneath a heavy rod! My face is wan and white with many woes!But I will lift ...
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 ...
Nature is but the outward vestibuleWhich God has placed before an unseen shrine,The Visible is but a fair, bright valeThat ...
First champion of the Crucified! Who, when the fight beganBetween the Church and worldly prideSo nobly fought, so nobly died, ...
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 ...
When I am dead, and all will soon forget My words, and face, and ways --I, somehow, think I'll walk ...
I walk down the Valley of Silence -Down the dim, voiceless valley - alone!And I hear not the fall of ...
Deep in the dark I hear the feet of God:He walks the world; He puts His holy handOn every sleeper ...
He walked alone beside the lonely sea,The slanting sunbeams fell upon his face,His shadow fluttered on the pure white sandsLike ...
Crushed with a burden of woe, Wrecked in the tempest of sin:Death came, and two lips murmured low,"Ah! once I ...
God knows all things -- but we In darkness walk our ways;We wonder what will be, We ask the nights ...
The olden golden stories of the world, That stirred the past, And now are dim as dreams,The lays and legends ...
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 ...
The brook that down the valley So musically drips,Flowed never half so brightly As the light laugh from her lips.Her ...
~Not~ as of one whom multitudes ~admire~, I believe they call him great;They throng to hear him with a strange ...
Into a temple vast and dim,Solemn and vast and dim,Just when the last sweet Vesper Hymn Was floating far away,With ...
Far Away! what does it mean? A change of heart with a change of place?When footsteps pass from scene to ...
Gather the sacred dust Of the warriors tried and true,Who bore the flag of a Nation's trustAnd fell in a ...
Back to where the roses restRound a shrine of holy name,(Yes -- they knew me when I came)More of peace ...
Go! heart of mine! the way is long -- The night is dark -- the place is far;Go! kneel and ...
At the golden gates of the visions I knelt me adown one day;But sudden my prayer was a silence, For ...
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