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Main Street and Other Poems(10)
2023-12-06Father Gerard Hopkins, S. J. Why didst thou carve thy speech laboriously, And match and blend thy words with curious art? For Song, one saith, is but ...
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Main Street and Other Poems(11)
2023-12-06Gates and Doors (For Richardson Little Wright) There was a gentle hostler (And blessed be his name!) He opened up the stable The night Our Lady came. ...
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Main Street and Other Poems(12)
2023-12-06The Singing Girl (For the Rev. Edward F. Garesche, S. J.) There was a little maiden In blue and silver drest, She sang to God in Heaven And God within...
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Main Street and Other Poems(13)
2023-12-06The Annunciation (For Helen Parry Eden) "Hail Mary, full of grace," the Angel saith. Our Lady bows her head, and is ashamed; She has a Bride...
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Main Street and Other Poems(14)
2023-12-06Roses (For Katherine Bregy) I went to gather roses and twine them in a ring, For I would make a posy, a posy for the King. I got an hundred roses, the...
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Main Street and Other Poems(15)
2023-12-06The Visitation (For Louise Imogen Guiney) There is a wall of flesh before the eyes Of John, who yet perceives and hails his King. It is Our Lady's...
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Main Street and Other Poems(16)
2023-12-06Multiplication (For S. M. E.) I take my leave, with sorrow, of Him I love so well; I look my last upon His small and radiant prison-cell; O happy lamp...
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Main Street and Other Poems(17)
2023-12-06Thanksgiving (For John Bunker) The roar of the world is in my ears. Thank God for the roar of the world! Thank God for the mighty tide of fears Agains...
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Main Street and Other Poems(18)
2023-12-06The Thorn (For the Rev. Charles L. O'Donnell, C. S. C.) The garden of God is a radiant place, And every flower has a holy face: Our Lady like a li...
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Main Street and Other Poems(19)
2023-12-06The Big Top The boom and blare of the big brass band is cheering to my heart And I like the smell of the trampled grass and elephants and hay. I take ...