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 ...
Abram Joseph Ryan Poems on World (25 Poems)
A Christmas Chant (Abram Joseph Ryan Poems)
They ask me to sing them a Christmas song That with musical mirth shall ring;How know I that the world's ...
Sentinel Songs (Abram Joseph Ryan Poems)
When falls the soldier brave, Dead at the feet of wrong,The poet sings and guards his grave With sentinels of ...
Fifty Years At The Altar (Abram Joseph Ryan Poems)
To Rev. Father E. Sourin, S.J., from A. J. Ryan; first, in memory of some happy hours passed in his ...
Last Of May (Abram Joseph Ryan Poems)
To the Children of Mary of the Cathedral of MobileIn the mystical dim of the temple, In the dream-haunted dim ...
Erin’s Flag (Abram Joseph Ryan Poems)
Unroll Erin's flag! fling its folds to the breeze!Let it float o'er the land, let it flash o'er the seas!Lift ...
The Seen And The Unseen (Abram Joseph Ryan Poems)
Nature is but the outward vestibuleWhich God has placed before an unseen shrine,The Visible is but a fair, bright valeThat ...
St. Stephen (Abram Joseph Ryan Poems)
First champion of the Crucified! Who, when the fight beganBetween the Church and worldly prideSo nobly fought, so nobly died, ...
New Year (Abram Joseph Ryan Poems)
Each year cometh with all his days, Some are shadowed and some are bright;He beckons us on until he stays ...
Song Of The Mystic (Abram Joseph Ryan Poems)
I walk down the Valley of Silence -Down the dim, voiceless valley - alone!And I hear not the fall of ...
God In The Night (Abram Joseph Ryan Poems)
Deep in the dark I hear the feet of God:He walks the world; He puts His holy handOn every sleeper ...
What Ails The World? (Abram Joseph Ryan Poems)
What ails the world? the poet cried; "And why does death walk everywhere? And why do tears fall anywhere? And ...
The Poet’s Child (Abram Joseph Ryan Poems)
Lines addressed to the daughter of Richard Dalton Williams.Child of the heart of a child of sweetest song! The poet's ...
Life (Abram Joseph Ryan Poems)
A baby played with the surplice sleeve Of a gentle priest; while in accents low,The sponsors murmured the grand "I ...
Poets (Abram Joseph Ryan Poems)
Poets are strange -- not always understood By many is their gift,Which is for evil or for mighty good -- ...
Mobile Mystic Societies (Abram Joseph Ryan Poems)
The olden golden stories of the world, That stirred the past, And now are dim as dreams,The lays and legends ...
In Rome (Abram Joseph Ryan Poems)
At last the dream of youth Stands fair and bright before me,The sunshine of the home of truth Falls tremulously ...
The Poet Priest (Abram Joseph Ryan Poems)
~Not~ as of one whom multitudes ~admire~, I believe they call him great;They throng to hear him with a strange ...
Sea Dreamings (Abram Joseph Ryan Poems)
To-day a bird on wings as white as foam That crests the blue-gray wave,With the vesper light upon its breast, ...
Better Than Gold (Abram Joseph Ryan Poems)
Better than grandeur, better than gold,Than rank and titles a thousand fold,Is a healthy body and a mind at ease,And ...
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 ...
A “Thought-Flower” (Abram Joseph Ryan Poems)
Silently -- shadowly -- some lives go, And the sound of their voices is all unheard;Or, if heard at all, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Wilt Pray For Me? (Abram Joseph Ryan Poems)
Wilt pray for me? They tell me I have Fame;I plead with thee, Sometimes just fold my nameIn beautiful "Hail ...