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 ...
Out upon the sand-dunes thrive the coarse long grasses;Herons standing knee-deep in the brackish pool;Overhead the sunset fire and flame ...
St. Austin, going in thoughtAlong the sea-sands gray,Into another world was caught,And Carthage far away.He saw the City of GodHang ...
Mother, why are people crowding now and staring? Child, it is a malefactor goes to His doom,To the high hill of ...
So I have sunk my roots in earthSince that my pretty boys had birth;And fear no more the grave and ...
"When you get to Heaven, seek and find my boy. Mother him!" "Until you come?" "I shall never come.Earth was good ...
LEST Heaven be thronged with grey-beards hoary, God, who made boys for His delight,Stoops in a day of grief and glory And ...
The Spring weeps, she is forlorn; Well that she may weep, alas!Now that many babes are born Whose dear fathers lie in ...
This was the gleam then that lured from farYour son and my son to the Holy War:Your son and my ...
Now in the soft spring midnight There's rush of wings and whirr,Birds flying softly, swiftly; The night's a-flutter, a-stir.Home by the bitter ...
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 ...
I will lift mine eyes to the mountains, To the mountains whence cometh my aid;I shall drink of the Mercy's crystal ...
Captain Patrick Tobin, R.D.F. Suvla, August 15th, 1915Ever his eyes are fixed on a glorious sight. A boy is leading, calls ...
'MID the piteous heaps of deadGoes one weary golden headTossing ever to and fro,Calling loud and calling low.Mother, mother, step ...
As up and down I fare by road and streetThe mothers of our men-at-arms I meet Who die for mine and ...
THE Christmas moon shines clear and right;There were poor travellers such a nightHad neither fire nor candle-light.One plucked them stars ...
Since you were so young, child, I shallNot fear your noon or even-fall,Nor dread you are taken unawares,Nor weary Heaven ...
To Amy WainwrightThis is the time the boys come home from school, Filling the house with gay and happy noise,Never at ...
THERE they go marching all in step so gay!Smooth-cheeked and golden, food for shells and guns.Blithely they go as to ...
He sleeps as a lamb sleeps,Beside his mother.Somewhere in yon blue deepsHis tender brotherSleeps like a lamb and leaps.He feeds ...
So I have sunk my roots in earth Since that my pretty boys had birth; And fear no more the ...
He sleeps as a lamb sleeps, Beside his mother. Somewhere in yon blue deeps His tender brother Sleeps like a ...
Out upon the sand-dunes thrive the coarse long grasses; Herons standing knee-deep in the brackish pool; Overhead the sunset fire ...
St. Austin, going in thought Along the sea-sands gray, Into another world was caught, And Carthage far away. He saw ...
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