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. Austin, going in thoughtAlong the sea-sands gray,Into another world was caught,And Carthage far away.He saw the City of GodHang ...
O, the red rose may be fair,And the lily statelier;But my shamrock, one in three,Takes the very heart of me!Many ...
Oh, when the land is white as milk With bloom that lets no leaf between,When trees are clad in grass-green silk And ...
Now the golden daffodil Lifts from earth his shining headThat was lately frozen still In the gardens of the dead.Sing to the ...
She had a vision in the dark Ere the first lark from nest took flight;She saw her own son from fierce ...
There's a Little Old Woman walks in the night, Singing her love song like a falling keen;The Little Old Woman is ...
I hear an Army!Millions of men coming up from the edge of the world,The ring of unnumbered feet ever louder ...
Lest he miss other children, lo!His angel is his playfellow.A riotous angel two years old,With wings of rose and curls ...
She goes unwedded all her days Because some man she never knew,Her destined mate, has won his bays, Passed the low door ...
Rest in a friend's house, Dear, I pray:The way is long to Good Friday,And very chill and grey the way.No ...
The angels walk with men in the red ruin and rain, White and gold, as of old, without spot or stain.Our ...
This is the sign!This flooding splendour, golden and hyaline,This sun a golden sea on hill and plain, --That God forgets ...
The laggard year is now at primeAnd primrose-time is daffodil-time; Where do the boys delay? What tether Hinders them from the heavenly ...
Young martyrs of the war,Who with your bright eyes star The shadows grey;Who steal at dawn and gloamIn each beloved room So ...
She carried frankincense and gold When the Star guided her,And in her folded hands so cold She carried myrrh.Frankincense for the praise ...
THE Kings to the StableThey brought sweet spice,The gold and the silver,And jewels of price.But the Dove by the mangerShe ...
Good is an Orchard, the Saint saith,To meditate on life and death,With a cool well, a hive of bees,A hermit's ...
Not soon shall I forget--a sheet Of golden water, cold and sweet, The young moon with her head in veils Of silver, and ...
Tell it to the bees, lest theyUmbrage take and fly away, That the dearest boy is dead,Who went singing, blithe and ...
St. Austin, going in thought Along the sea-sands gray, Into another world was caught, And Carthage far away. He saw ...
Lest he miss other children, lo! His angel is his playfellow. A riotous angel two years old, With wings of ...
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