-
Ballads and Lyrics of Old France (71)
2023-12-06A LOST PATH. [Plotinus, the Greek philosopher, had a certain proper mode of ecstasy, whereby, as Porphyry saith, his soul, becoming free from his deat...
-
Ballads and Lyrics of Old France (72)
2023-12-06THE SHADE OF HELEN. WHY from the quiet hollows of the hills, And extreme meeting place of light and shade, Wherein soft rains fell slowly, and became ...
-
Father Ryan's Poems (1)
2023-12-06Song of the Mystic I walk down the Valley of Silence —— Down the dim, voiceless valley —— alone! And I hear not the fall of a ...
-
Father Ryan's Poems (2)
2023-12-06Reverie Only a few more years! Weary years! Only a few more tears! Bitter tears! And then —— and then —— like other men, I cea...
-
Father Ryan's Poems (3)
2023-12-06Lines Go down where the wavelets are kissing the shore, And ask of them why do they sigh? The poets have asked them a thousand times o'er, But the...
-
Father Ryan's Poems (4)
2023-12-06A Memory One bright memory shines like a star In the sky of my spirit forever; And over my pathway it flashes afar A radiance that perishes never. One...
-
Father Ryan's Poems (5)
2023-12-06Rhyme One idle day —— A mile or so of sunlit waves off shore —— In a breezeless bay, We listless lay —— Our boat a...
-
Father Ryan's Poems (6)
2023-12-06Nocturne I sit to-night by the firelight, And I look at the glowing flame, And I see in the bright red flashes A Heart, a Face, and a Name. How often ...
-
Father Ryan's Poems (7)
2023-12-06Name. But where are the olden pictures? And where are the olden dreams? Has a change come over my vision? Or over the fire's bright gleams? Not ov...
-
Father Ryan's Poems (8)
2023-12-06The Old Year and the New How swift they go, Life's many years, With their winds of woe And their storms of tears, And their darkest of nights whos...