Feast Of The Sacred Heart (Abram Joseph Ryan Poems)
Two lights on a lowly altar; Two snowy cloths for a Feast;Two vases of dying roses; The morning comes from ...
Abram Joseph Ryan Poems on Sadness (52 Poems)
Follow Me (Abram Joseph Ryan Poems)
The Master's voice was sweet: "I gave My life for thee;Bear thou this cross thro' pain and loss, Arise and ...
A Blessing (Abram Joseph Ryan Poems)
Be you near, or be you far,Let my blessing, like a star, Shine upon you everywhere!And in each lone evening ...
In Memory Of Very Rev. J. B. Etienne (Abram Joseph Ryan Poems)
Superior General of the Congregation of the Missionand of the Sisters of Charity.A shadow slept folded in vestments, The dream ...
A Land Without Ruins (Abram Joseph Ryan Poems)
A land without ruins is a land without memories -- a land without memories is a land without history. A ...
Tears (Abram Joseph Ryan Poems)
The tears that trickled down our eyes, They do not touch the earth to-day;But soar like angels to the skies, ...
Sursum Corda (Abram Joseph Ryan Poems)
Weary hearts! weary hearts! by the cares of life oppressed,Ye are wand'ring in the shadows -- ye are sighing for ...
When? (Death) (Abram Joseph Ryan Poems)
Some day in Spring, When earth is fair and glad,And sweet birds sing, And fewest hearts are sad -- ...
Memories (Abram Joseph Ryan Poems)
They come, as the breeze comes over the foam, Waking the waves that are sinking to sleep --The fairest of ...
Wrecked (Abram Joseph Ryan Poems)
The winds are singing a death-knell Out on the main to-night;The sky droops low -- and many a bark That ...
Death (Abram Joseph Ryan Poems)
Out of the shadows of sadness,Into the sunshine of gladness, Into the light of the blest;Out of a land very ...
Presentiment (Abram Joseph Ryan Poems)
My SisterCometh a voice from a far-land! Beautiful, sad, and low;Shineth a light from the star-land! Down on the night ...
Lines (Abram Joseph Ryan Poems)
The world is sweet, and fair, and bright, And joy aboundeth everywhere,The glorious stars crown every night, And thro' the ...
A Memory (Abram Joseph Ryan Poems)
One bright memory shines like a starIn the sky of my spirit forever;And over my pathway it flashes afarA radiance ...
Sunless Days (Abram Joseph Ryan Poems)
They come to ev'ry life -- sad, sunless days, With not a light all o'er their clouded skies;And thro' the ...
St. Bridget (Abram Joseph Ryan Poems)
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 ...
Wake Me A Song (Abram Joseph Ryan Poems)
Out of the silences wake me a song, Beautiful, sad, and soft, and low;Let the loveliest music sound along, And ...
Good Friday (Abram Joseph Ryan Poems)
O Heart of Three-in-the evening, You nestled the thorn-crowned head;He leaned on you in His sorrow, And rested on you ...
The Land We Love (Abram Joseph Ryan Poems)
Land of the gentle and brave! Our love is as wide as thy woe;It deepens beside every grave Where the ...
After Seeing Pius IX (Abram Joseph Ryan Poems)
I saw his face to-day; he looks a chief Who fears not human rage, nor human guile;Upon his cheeks the ...
Farewells (Abram Joseph Ryan Poems)
They are so sad to say: no poem tellsThe agony of hearts that dwellsIn lone and last farewells.They are like ...
Listen (Abram Joseph Ryan Poems)
We borrow, In our sorrow,From the sun of some to-morrow Half the light that gilds to-day; And the ...