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 ...
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 ...
'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 ...
A Memorial Wreath to C. F. Sorrow:A garland for a grave! Fair flowers that bloom, And only bloom to ...
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 ...
Winter on the mountains Summer on the shore,The robes of sun-gleams woven, The lake's blue wavelets wore.Cold, white, against the ...
Nature is but the outward vestibuleWhich God has placed before an unseen shrine,The Visible is but a fair, bright valeThat ...
How swift they go, Life's many years, With their winds of woe And their storms of tears,And ...
Only a few more years!Weary years!Only a few more tears!Bitter tears!And then - and then - like other men,I cease ...
Between two pillared clouds of gold The beautiful gates of evening swung --And far and wide from flashing fold The ...
There never was a valley without a faded flower, There never was a heaven without some little cloud;The face of ...
A baby played with the surplice sleeve Of a gentle priest; while in accents low,The sponsors murmured the grand "I ...
Just when the gentle hand of spring Came fringing the trees with bud and leaf,And when the blades the warm ...
Crushed with a burden of woe, Wrecked in the tempest of sin:Death came, and two lips murmured low,"Ah! once I ...
The olden golden stories of the world, That stirred the past, And now are dim as dreams,The lays and legends ...
The brook that down the valley So musically drips,Flowed never half so brightly As the light laugh from her lips.Her ...
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 ...
What has been will be, 'Tis the under law of life;'Tis the song of sky and sea, To the key ...
The world is sweet, and fair, and bright, And joy aboundeth everywhere,The glorious stars crown every night, And thro' the ...
S. M. A.Gone! and there's not a gleam of you, Faces that float into far away;Gone! and we can only ...
Two loves came up a long, wide aisle, And knelt at a low, white gate;One -- tender and true, with ...
I saw his face to-day; he looks a chief Who fears not human rage, nor human guile;Upon his cheeks the ...
Brief while they last, Long when they are gone;They catch from the past A light to still live on.Brief! yet ...
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