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 ...
Father Keeler died February 28, 1880, in Mobile, Ala. - Inscribed to his ...
From the mystic sidereal spaces,In the noon of a night 'mid of May,Came a spirit that murmured to me --Or ...
One idle day --A mile or so of sunlit waves off shore -- In a breezeless bay, We ...
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 ...
I sit to-night by the firelight, And I look at the glowing flame,And I see in the bright red flashes ...
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, ...
When I am dead, and all will soon forget My words, and face, and ways --I, somehow, think I'll walk ...
Deep in the dark I hear the feet of God:He walks the world; He puts His holy handOn every sleeper ...
Crushed with a burden of woe, Wrecked in the tempest of sin:Death came, and two lips murmured low,"Ah! once I ...
The tears that trickled down our eyes, They do not touch the earth to-day;But soar like angels to the skies, ...
Some day in Spring, When earth is fair and glad,And sweet birds sing, And fewest hearts are sad -- ...
Life's Vesper-bells are ringing In the temple of my heart,And yon sunset, sure, is singing "Nunc dimittis -- Now depart!"Ah! ...
Some reckon their age by years,Some measure their life by art;But some tell their days by the flood of their ...
The winds are singing a death-knell Out on the main to-night;The sky droops low -- and many a bark That ...
At the golden gates of the visions I knelt me adown one day;But sudden my prayer was a silence, For ...
The moan of a wintry soul Melted into a summer song,And the words, like the wavelet's roll, Moved murmuringly along.And ...
They come to ev'ry life -- sad, sunless days, With not a light all o'er their clouded skies;And thro' the ...
Over the silent sea of sleep, Far away! far away! Over a strange and starlit deep Where the beautiful shadows ...
By sound of name, and touch of hand, Thro' ears that hear, and eyes that see,We know each other in ...
O Songs! I said:"Stop sounding in my soulJust for a little while and let me sleep,Resting my head on the ...
Land of the gentle and brave! Our love is as wide as thy woe;It deepens beside every grave Where the ...
Farewell! that word has broken hearts And blinded eyes with tears;Farewell! one stays, and one departs; Between them roll the ...
Thine eyes are dim: A mist hath gathered there;Around their rim Float many clouds of care, And there is sorrow ...
In the eclipses of your soul, and when you cry "O God! give more of rest and less of night," ...
Go, words of mine! and if you live Only for one brief, little day;If peace, or joy, or calm you ...
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