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Father Ryan's Poems (111)
2023-12-06The Child of the Poet The sunshine of thy Father's fame Sleeps in the shadows of thy eyes, And flashes sometimes when his name Like a lost star se...
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Father Ryan's Poems (110)
2023-12-06The Poet The Poet is the loneliest man that lives; Ah me! God makes him so -The sea hath its ebb and flow, He sings his songs —— but yet h...
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Father Ryan's Poems (109)
2023-12-06Only a Dream Only a Dream! It floated thro' The sky of a lonely sleep As floats a gleam Athwart the Blue Of a golden clouded Deep. Only a Dream! I...
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Father Ryan's Poems (108)
2023-12-06A Reverie [`"O Songs!" I said'] "O Songs!" I said "Stop sounding in my soul Just for a little while and let me sleep, Res...
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Father Ryan's Poems (107)
2023-12-06In Remembrance In the eclipses of your soul, and when you cry "O God! give more of rest and less of night," My words may rest you; and mayha...
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Father Ryan's Poems (106)
2023-12-06To Virginia (on Her Birthday) Your past is past and never to return, The long bright yesterday of life's first years, Its days are dead —&md...
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Father Ryan's Poems (105)
2023-12-06Fifty Years at the Altar "To Rev. Father E. Sourin, S.J., from A. J. Ryan; first, in memory of some happy hours passed in his company at Loyola C...
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Father Ryan's Poems (104)
2023-12-06Sea Reverie Strange Sea! why is it that you never rest? And tell me why you never go to sleep? Thou art like one so sad and sin-oppressed —&mdas...
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Father Ryan's Poems (103)
2023-12-06Sea Rest Far from "where the roses rest", Round the altar and the aisle, Which I loved, of all, the best —— I have come to rest ...
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Father Ryan's Poems (102)
2023-12-06Sea Dreamings To-day a bird on wings as white as foam That crests the blue-gray wave, With the vesper light upon its breast, flew home Seaward. The Go...