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 ...
The Convent garden lies so near The road the people go,If it was quiet you might hear The nuns' talk, merry and ...
All will be right when you come home, dear lad, But oh, 'tis long of coming that you are!Everything's wrong with ...
Thou Who wert kindest of the kind --Since out of sight is out of mind --There's none to do Thee ...
Such innocent companionshipIs hers, whether she wake or sleep,'Tis scarcely strange her face should wearThe young child's grave and innocent ...
She had twelve stars for diadem; She had for footstool the full moon;Her quiet eyes, outshining them, Kept memories of the night ...
Here in the garden-bed,Hoeing the celery,Wonders the Lord has madePass ever before me.I see the young birds build,And swallows come ...
When swarms of small distractions harry Devotion like the gnats that flyTill prayers are cold and customary, Not such as please Thee, ...
To men now of her blood and raceEngland's a little garden place,Dear as a woman is, and sheThe Queen of ...
If Thou, Lord God, willest to judge This, Thy very piteous clayWhich to save Christ did not grudge His last dying, I ...
The boys come home, come home from war, With quiet eyes for quiet things --A child, a lamb, a flower, a ...
She carried frankincense and gold When the Star guided her,And in her folded hands so cold She carried myrrh.Frankincense for the praise ...
God bless the little orchard brownWhere the sap stirs these quickening days.Soon in a white and rosy gownThe trees will ...
Here in the garden-bed, Hoeing the celery, Wonders the Lord has made Pass ever before me. I see the young ...
God bless the little orchard brown Where the sap stirs these quickening days. Soon in a white and rosy gown ...
St. Austin, going in thought Along the sea-sands gray, Into another world was caught, And Carthage far away. He saw ...
Such innocent companionship Is hers, whether she wake or sleep, 'Tis scarcely strange her face should wear The young child's ...
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