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 ...
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 ...
Aye, sure, it does always be rainin' An' the hay lyin' out in the wet,But what's the good o' complainin'? It never ...
So I have sunk my roots in earthSince that my pretty boys had birth;And fear no more the grave and ...
Now in your days of worst distress, The empty days that stretch before,When all your sweet's turned bitterness;-- The Hand of the ...
One called from Salonika and his call Rang to his brother;Forded wide rivers, climbed the mountain wall, Seeking the other.Are you asleep, ...
She had twelve stars for diadem; She had for footstool the full moon;Her quiet eyes, outshining them, Kept memories of the night ...
To the aid of my little son I call all the magnalities --Archangel, Dominion, Powers and Principalities.Mary without a stain, Joseph that was ...
Oh, to have a little farm, A little hearth so warm and bright,And three little boys all safe from harm In from ...
To Leucha Mary WarnerHe is "Missing," and forlorn Drag her days in grief and pain.Every morn a hope is born, Only to ...
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 Spring weeps, she is forlorn; Well that she may weep, alas!Now that many babes are born Whose dear fathers lie in ...
(A Lament for the Irish Jacobites.)I have heard the curlew crying On a lonely moor and mere;And the sea-gull's shriek in ...
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 ...
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 house where I was born,Where I was young and gay,Grows old amid its corn,Amid its scented hay.Moan of the ...
THERE'S traffic in the worlds immortal, For many souls are flying home,Striving and pushing at the portal For sight of glorious things ...
THE Kings to the StableThey brought sweet spice,The gold and the silver,And jewels of price.But the Dove by the mangerShe ...
To Ivo Alan Charteris, October 17th, 1915Requiescat is not my bidding,That is the weary man's right speeding;You, O Child, full ...
To you and you it shall be given,As unto Mary her lost Heaven; Her Son and your son comeAlive out of ...
So I have sunk my roots in earth Since that my pretty boys had birth; And fear no more the ...
Out upon the sand-dunes thrive the coarse long grasses; Herons standing knee-deep in the brackish pool; Overhead the sunset fire ...
The house where I was born, Where I was young and gay, Grows old amid its corn, Amid its scented ...
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