The Vision (Katharine Tynan Poems)
An average man was Private Flynn, Good stuff for soldiering, no doubt;Troublesome when the drink was in, A quiet lad when it ...
Katharine Tynan Poems on God (51 Poems)
The Legend of St. Austin and the Child (Katharine Tynan Poems)
St. Austin, going in thoughtAlong the sea-sands gray,Into another world was caught,And Carthage far away.He saw the City of GodHang ...
St. Francis and the Birds (Katharine Tynan Poems)
Little sisters, the birds:We must praise God, you and I(Katharine Tynan)
The Convent Garden (Katharine Tynan Poems)
The Convent garden lies so near The road the people go,If it was quiet you might hear The nuns' talk, merry and ...
When You Come Home (Katharine Tynan Poems)
All will be right when you come home, dear lad, But oh, 'tis long of coming that you are!Everything's wrong with ...
The Open Road (Katharine Tynan Poems)
THE roads of the Sea Are thronged with merchantmen;East and West, North and South They go and come again.All precious merchandise They bear ...
Haymaking (Katharine Tynan Poems)
Aye, sure, it does always be rainin' An' the hay lyin' out in the wet,But what's the good o' complainin'? It never ...
A Colloquy: (For M. W.) (Katharine Tynan Poems)
"When you get to Heaven, seek and find my boy. Mother him!" "Until you come?" "I shall never come.Earth was good ...
Recompense: (For Lord Kilhacken) (Katharine Tynan Poems)
That which I saved I lost And that I lost I found,And you are mine, oh tender little ghost, Whose grave is ...
Flower of Youth (Katharine Tynan Poems)
LEST Heaven be thronged with grey-beards hoary, God, who made boys for His delight,Stoops in a day of grief and glory And ...
No Man’s Land (Katharine Tynan Poems)
Not to an angel but a friendHe turned at the day's bitter end.It was so comforting to feelSome one was ...
The Temple (Katharine Tynan Poems)
WHAT of Louvain and of Rheims Made for God by man? What then?Here be temples more than man's Wrought by God for ...
Winter Sunset (Katharine Tynan Poems)
Roses in the sky, Roses in the seaBowers of scarlet sky-roses Take my heart and me.God was good to make, This December weather,All ...
Menace (Katharine Tynan Poems)
Oh, when the land is white as milk With bloom that lets no leaf between,When trees are clad in grass-green silk And ...
Salutation (Katharine Tynan Poems)
To you and you and you who have given Two sons for England's sake,--what word?Oh, there is weeping heard in Heaven And ...
The Riders (Katharine Tynan Poems)
RHEIMS is down in fire and smoke,The hour of God is at the stroke.Round and round the ruined place,—Jesu, Mary, ...
They Who Return (Katharine Tynan Poems)
To Mrs. WeigallInto the stricken house who steals on quiet feet And sudden brings the sunshine it used to wear?Whose is ...
The Great May (Katharine Tynan Poems)
Who said the Spring was dead? She would not come again,Dust on her starry head, For a sad world in pain?The thing ...
The Only Son (Katharine Tynan Poems)
His mother died last year and yetShe wearied Heaven with fear and fret,Wanting the son she left behind,And God was ...
The Watchers (Katharine Tynan Poems)
THE cottages all lie asleep;The sheep and lambs are folded inWinged sentinels the vale will keepUntil the hours of life ...
The Call (Katharine Tynan Poems)
I hear an Army!Millions of men coming up from the edge of the world,The ring of unnumbered feet ever louder ...
A Holy Week Song, 1918 (Katharine Tynan Poems)
Now when Christ died for man his sake A myriad men must die;His Via Crucis they must take And share His Calvary. God ...
A Birth-Night Song (Katharine Tynan Poems)
The Child is rocked on Mary's knee, Cold in the stall this bitter night,And "Lullalay-loo," soft singeth she, "My little Boy and ...
What turned the Germans Back (Katharine Tynan Poems)
WHAT turned the German myriads back From Paris whither they had won?The sword dropped from their hold grown slack; Children of Attila ...
Mediation (Katharine Tynan Poems)
If Thou, Lord God, willest to judge This, Thy very piteous clayWhich to save Christ did not grudge His last dying, I ...
Alienation (Katharine Tynan Poems)
For the first time since he was bornHer son, her rose without a thorn,They are at variance, they who wereAlways ...
The Comrades (Katharine Tynan Poems)
The angels walk with men in the red ruin and rain, White and gold, as of old, without spot or stain.Our ...
The Heroes (Katharine Tynan Poems)
By such strange and wonderful ways God would save His world again.All our days are holy days, Starry heroes all our men.There's ...
Pilgrims To The East (Katharine Tynan Poems)
This Christmas-time my son will come, God willing, to the Holy PlaceAnd by the manger's little room Will bend his knee and ...
The Gardener (Katharine Tynan Poems)
For VioletIn the garden she hath found Herb of grace and fever-few;Woundwort there doth much abound, Heartsease too.Where she laid dead things ...