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 War & Peace (35 Poems)
The Convent Garden (Katharine Tynan Poems)
The Convent garden lies so near The road the people go,If it was quiet you might hear The nuns' talk, merry and ...
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 ...
Flower of Youth (Katharine Tynan Poems)
LEST Heaven be thronged with grey-beards hoary, God, who made boys for His delight,Stoops in a day of grief and glory And ...
Salutation (Katharine Tynan Poems)
To you and you and you who have given Two sons for England's sake,--what word?Oh, there is weeping heard in Heaven And ...
The Crown (Katharine Tynan Poems)
She had twelve stars for diadem; She had for footstool the full moon;Her quiet eyes, outshining them, Kept memories of the night ...
The Golden Boy (Katharine Tynan Poems)
IN times of peace, so clean and bright,And with a new-washed morning face,He walked Pall Mall, a goodly sight,The finished ...
For the Airmen (Katharine Tynan Poems)
THOU who guidest the swallow and wren,Keep the paths of the flying men!Over the mountains, over the seasThou hast given ...
Riding Home (Katharine Tynan Poems)
Who are these that go to the high peaks and the snow?Side by side do they ride, their steady eyes ...
The Watchers (Katharine Tynan Poems)
THE cottages all lie asleep;The sheep and lambs are folded inWinged sentinels the vale will keepUntil the hours of life ...
To The Others (Katharine Tynan Poems)
This was the gleam then that lured from farYour son and my son to the Holy War:Your son and my ...
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 ...
Any Mother (Katharine Tynan Poems)
"What's the news? Now tell it me." "Allenby again advances.""No, it is not Allenby But my boy, straight as a lance is."Oh, ...
Alienation (Katharine Tynan Poems)
For the first time since he was bornHer son, her rose without a thorn,They are at variance, they who wereAlways ...
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 ...
The Secret Foe (Katharine Tynan Poems)
When now to battle he shall ride, The bravest of the brave,Joan the Maid be by his side And Michael, quick to ...
The Aerodrome (Katharine Tynan Poems)
So now the aerodrome goes up Upon my father's fields,And gone is all the golden crop And all the pleasant yields.They tear ...
The Wild Geese (Katharine Tynan Poems)
Wild geese fly overhead In the wild Autumn weather.Souls of the newly-dead Crying and flying together.Home from the last great fight, The souls ...
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 ...
The Bride (Katharine Tynan Poems)
WEAVE me no wreath of orange blossom,No bridal white shall me adorn;I wear a red rose in my bosom;To-morrow I ...
Quiet Eyes (Katharine Tynan Poems)
The boys come home, come home from war, With quiet eyes for quiet things --A child, a lamb, a flower, a ...
The Refreshment (Katharine Tynan Poems)
If I could have foreseen this hour, What terror and anguish I had seen!And not this time of joy at flower, Cool ...
A Connaught Man (For Hugh Maguire) (Katharine Tynan Poems)
Lord, when he shall come home from war, Give him no pastures green,But a wet wind and a soft wind With reek ...
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 ...
All Souls (Katharine Tynan Poems)
THERE'S traffic in the worlds immortal, For many souls are flying home,Striving and pushing at the portal For sight of glorious things ...
Christmas in the year of the War (Katharine Tynan Poems)
NEVERTHELESS this Year of GriefThe Tree of God's in leaf.The stem, the branch quickenethWith sap, this year of Death.For in ...
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 ...
Farewell (Katharine Tynan Poems)
Not soon shall I forget--a sheet Of golden water, cold and sweet, The young moon with her head in veils Of silver, and ...
Noel (Katharine Tynan Poems)
I sang a song upon Christmas dayAnd the feet of many going one way,The word the golden voice did say: Gloria ...