The Children of Lir (Katharine Tynan Poems)
Out upon the sand-dunes thrive the coarse long grasses;Herons standing knee-deep in the brackish pool;Overhead the sunset fire and flame ...
Katharine Tynan Poems on Love (38 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 ...
Shamrock Song (Katharine Tynan Poems)
O, the red rose may be fair,And the lily statelier;But my shamrock, one in three,Takes the very heart of me!Many ...
Of St. Francis and the Ass (Katharine Tynan Poems)
Our father, ere he wentOut with his brother, Death,Smiling and well-contentAs a bridegroom goeth,Sweetly forgiveness prayedFrom man or beast whom ...
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 ...
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 ...
To Two Bereaved (Katharine Tynan Poems)
Now in your days of worst distress, The empty days that stretch before,When all your sweet's turned bitterness;-- The Hand of the ...
A Lament (Katharine Tynan Poems)
CLOUDS is under clouds and rainFor there will not come againTwo, the beloved sire and sonWhom all gifts were rained ...
The Old Love (Katharine Tynan Poems)
Out of my door I step into The country, all her scent and dew, Nor travel there by a hard road, Dusty and ...
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 ...
Any Woman (Katharine Tynan Poems)
I am the pillars of the house; The keystone of the arch am I.Take me away, and roof and wall Would fall ...
The Little Old Woman (Katharine Tynan Poems)
There's a Little Old Woman walks in the night, Singing her love song like a falling keen;The Little Old Woman is ...
Distraction (Katharine Tynan Poems)
When swarms of small distractions harry Devotion like the gnats that flyTill prayers are cold and customary, Not such as please Thee, ...
The Summons (Katharine Tynan Poems)
Straight to his death he went, A smile on his lips,All his life's joy unspent, Into eclipse.The song of the shell he ...
The Dream: (For my Father) (Katharine Tynan Poems)
Over and over again I dream a dream, I am coming home to you in the starlit gloam;Long was the day ...
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 ...
To One in Grief (Katharine Tynan Poems)
SIMON the Cyrenean bore The Cross of Christ up Calvary Hill.Blessed be Simon's lot before Honour and ease and world's good-willYou,--you would ...
The Lowlands Of Flanders (Katharine Tynan Poems)
THE night that I was marriedOur Captain came to me:Rise up, rise up, new-married manAnd come at once with me.For ...
The Test (Katharine Tynan Poems)
Love has moods: and I am cold, Very cold ofttimes to Thee;Fain to slip from Thy dear hold To my follies and ...
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 ...
Dead- A Prisoner (Katharine Tynan Poems)
He died the loneliest death of all, Amid his foes he died.But Someone's leaped the outer wall And Someone's come inside,And he ...
A Prayer { For Those Who Shall Return} (Katharine Tynan Poems)
LORD, when they come back again From the dreadful battlefieldTo the common ways of men, Be Thy mercy, Lord, revealed!Make them to ...
The Father (Katharine Tynan Poems)
Captain Patrick Tobin, R.D.F. Suvla, August 15th, 1915Ever his eyes are fixed on a glorious sight. A boy is leading, calls ...
The Heart of a Boy (Katharine Tynan Poems)
To Mrs. Guy WyndhamThe heart of a boy is full of light, Naked of self, quite pure and clean,No shadows lurk ...
Prayer At Night (Katharine Tynan Poems)
Lord, for the one who dies aloneThis night without companion,I cannot rest, I cannot sleep.O shepherd of the piteous sheepRun ...
Emptiness (Katharine Tynan Poems)
Where there is nothing God comes in: The Very God has room enoughIn the poor heart that's stripped so clean Of earth ...
The Mother Gives Up Her Daughter (Katharine Tynan Poems)
Though I must yield her up to you, her lover, I have had sweetness more than you can know,The little great-eyed ...
The Boys Of The House: (Katharine Tynan Poems)
Young martyrs of the war,Who with your bright eyes star The shadows grey;Who steal at dawn and gloamIn each beloved room So ...
A Song For The Season (Katharine Tynan Poems)
THE Kings to the StableThey brought sweet spice,The gold and the silver,And jewels of price.But the Dove by the mangerShe ...
Autumnal (Katharine Tynan Poems)
THE Autumn leaves are dying quietly,Scarlet and orange, underfoot they lie; They had their youth and prime And now's the dying time;Alas, ...