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 ...
An average man was Private Flynn, Good stuff for soldiering, no doubt;Troublesome when the drink was in, A quiet lad when it ...
St. Austin, going in thoughtAlong the sea-sands gray,Into another world was caught,And Carthage far away.He saw the City of GodHang ...
Little sisters, the birds:We must praise God, you and I(Katharine Tynan)
The Convent garden lies so near The road the people go,If it was quiet you might hear The nuns' talk, merry and ...
O, the red rose may be fair,And the lily statelier;But my shamrock, one in three,Takes the very heart of me!Many ...
Mother, why are people crowding now and staring? Child, it is a malefactor goes to His doom,To the high hill of ...
Our father, ere he wentOut with his brother, Death,Smiling and well-contentAs a bridegroom goeth,Sweetly forgiveness prayedFrom man or beast whom ...
All will be right when you come home, dear lad, But oh, 'tis long of coming that you are!Everything's wrong with ...
When skies are blue and days are bright A kitchen-garden's my delight, Set round with rows of decent box And blowsy girls of ...
Thou Who wert kindest of the kind --Since out of sight is out of mind --There's none to do Thee ...
The lads were once my comrades, They stay at home content.And now's the time of cricket, They count the days well spent.They ...
With younger men he takes his stand, To the recruiting-sergeant nigh,Sees others chosen: lifts a hand In hopes to catch the unwilling ...
THE roads of the Sea Are thronged with merchantmen;East and West, North and South They go and come again.All precious merchandise They bear ...
Aye, sure, it does always be rainin' An' the hay lyin' out in the wet,But what's the good o' complainin'? It never ...
Such innocent companionshipIs hers, whether she wake or sleep,'Tis scarcely strange her face should wearThe young child's grave and innocent ...
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 ...
That which I saved I lost And that I lost I found,And you are mine, oh tender little ghost, Whose grave is ...
LEST Heaven be thronged with grey-beards hoary, God, who made boys for His delight,Stoops in a day of grief and glory 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 ...
Not to an angel but a friendHe turned at the day's bitter end.It was so comforting to feelSome one was ...
Roses in the sky, Roses in the seaBowers of scarlet sky-roses Take my heart and me.God was good to make, This December weather,All ...
WHAT of Louvain and of Rheims Made for God by man? What then?Here be temples more than man's Wrought by God for ...
One called from Salonika and his call Rang to his brother;Forded wide rivers, climbed the mountain wall, Seeking the other.Are you asleep, ...
Oh, when the land is white as milk With bloom that lets no leaf between,When trees are clad in grass-green silk And ...
How strange if it should fall to you, To me, our boys should do the deedThe great Crusaders failed to do! To ...
Now the golden daffodil Lifts from earth his shining headThat was lately frozen still In the gardens of the dead.Sing to the ...
I know a garden like a child,Clean and new-washed and reconciled.It grows its own sweet way, yet stillHas guidance of ...
Those twelve years from Ascension Until the day of meeting broke,She was not so much all alone As it might seem to ...
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