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Father Ryan's Poems (91)
2023-12-06Reverie Those hearts of ours —— how strange! how strange! How they yearn to ramble and love to range Down through the vales of the years l...
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Father Ryan's Poems (90)
2023-12-06The Pilgrim (A Christmas Legend for Children) The shades of night were brooding O'er the sea, the earth, the sky; The passing winds were wailing I...
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Father Ryan's Poems (89)
2023-12-06The Seen and The Unseen Nature is but the outward vestibule Which God has placed before an unseen shrine, The Visible is but a fair, bright vale That ...
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Father Ryan's Poems (88)
2023-12-06Lines ["The world is sweet, and fair, and bright,"] The world is sweet, and fair, and bright, And joy aboundeth everywhere, The glorious sta...
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Father Ryan's Poems (87)
2023-12-06Thoughts By sound of name, and touch of hand, Thro' ears that hear, and eyes that see, We know each other in this land, How little must that knowl...
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Father Ryan's Poems (86)
2023-12-06Poets Poets are strange —— not always understood By many is their gift, Which is for evil or for mighty good —— To lower or to...
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Father Ryan's Poems (85)
2023-12-06God in the Night Deep in the dark I hear the feet of God He walks the world; He puts His holy hand On every sleeper —— only puts His hand ...
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Father Ryan's Poems (84)
2023-12-06Now Sometimes a single hour Rings thro' a long life-time, As from a temple tower There often falls a chime From blessed bells, that seems To fold ...
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Father Ryan's Poems (83)
2023-12-06Singing-Bird In the valley of my life Sings a "Singing-Bird", And its voice thro' calm and strife Is sweetly heard. In the day and thro&...
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Father Ryan's Poems (82)
2023-12-06Death of the Flower I love my mother, the wildwood, I sleep upon her breast; A day or two of childhood, And then I sink to rest. I had once a lovely s...