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Father Ryan's Poems (99)
2023-12-06New Year Each year cometh with all his days, Some are shadowed and some are bright; He beckons us on until he stays Kneeling with us 'neath Christ...
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Father Ryan's Poems (100)
2023-12-06Zeila From the mystic sidereal spaces, In the noon of a night 'mid of May, Came a spirit that murmured to me —— Or was it the dream of...
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Father Ryan's Poems (101)
2023-12-06Better than Gold Better than grandeur, better than gold, Than rank and titles a thousand fold, Is a healthy body and a mind at ease, And simple pleasu...
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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...
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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 (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 (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 (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 (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 (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...