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Father Ryan’s Poems

by Abram Joseph Ryan

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  1. 1Introduction
  2. 2Preface
  3. 3Memoir of Father Ryan
  4. 4Song of the Mystic
  5. 5Reverie [“Only a Few More Years!”]
  6. 6Lines — 1875
  7. 7A Memory
  8. 8Rhyme
  9. 9Nocturne [“I Sit To-Night by the Firelight,”]
  10. 10The Old Year and the New
  11. 11Erin’s Flag
  12. 12The Sword of Robert Lee
  13. 13Life
  14. 14A Laugh — And a Moan
  15. 15In Memory of My Brother
  16. 16A Thought
  17. 17March of the Deathless Dead
  18. 18Reunited
  19. 19A Memory
  20. 20At Last
  21. 21A Land Without Ruins
  22. 22Memories
  23. 23The Prayer of the South
  24. 24Feast of the Assumption
  25. 25Sursum Corda
  26. 26A Child’s Wish
  27. 27Presentiment
  28. 28Last of May
  29. 29“Gone”
  30. 30Feast of the Sacred Heart
  31. 31In Memory of Very Rev. J. B. Etienne
  32. 32Tears
  33. 33Lines (Two Loves)
  34. 34The Land We Love
  35. 35In Memoriam
  36. 36Reverie [“We Laugh When Our Souls Are the Saddest,”]
  37. 37I Often Wonder Why ’Tis So
  38. 38A Blessing
  39. 39July 9th, 1872
  40. 40Wake Me a Song
  41. 41In Memoriam (David J. Ryan, C.S.A.)
  42. 42What? (To Ethel)
  43. 43The Master’s Voice
  44. 44A “Thought-Flower”
  45. 45A Death
  46. 46The Rosary of My Tears
  47. 47Death
  48. 48What Ails the World?
  49. 49A Thought
  50. 50In Rome
  51. 51After Sickness
  52. 52Old Trees
  53. 53After Seeing Pius IX
  54. 54Sentinel Songs
  55. 55Fragments From an Epic Poem
  56. 56Lake Como
  57. 57Good Friday
  58. 58My Beads
  59. 59At Night
  60. 60Nocturne [“Betimes, I Seem to See in Dreams”]
  61. 61Sunless Days
  62. 62A Reverie [“Did I Dream of a Song? Or Sing in a Dream?”]
  63. 63St. Mary’s
  64. 64De Profundis
  65. 65When? (Death)
  66. 66The Conquered Banner
  67. 67A Christmas Chant
  68. 68Listen
  69. 69Wrecked
  70. 70Dreaming
  71. 71A Thought
  72. 72Inevitable
  73. 73Sorrow and the Flowers — Sorrow
  74. 74Hope
  75. 75Farewells
  76. 76Song of the River
  77. 77Dreamland
  78. 78Lines [“Sometimes, From the Far-Away,”]
  79. 79A Song
  80. 80Parting
  81. 81St. Stephen
  82. 82A Flower’s Song
  83. 83The Star’s Song
  84. 84Death of the Flower
  85. 85Singing-Bird
  86. 86Now
  87. 87M***
  88. 88God in the Night
  89. 89Poets
  90. 90A Legend
  91. 91Thoughts
  92. 92Lines [“the World Is Sweet, and Fair, and Bright,”]
  93. 93C.S.A.
  94. 94Their Story Runneth Thus
  95. 95Night After the Picnic
  96. 96Lines [“the Death of Men Is Not the Death”]
  97. 97Death of the Prince Imperial
  98. 98In Memoriam (Father Keeler)
  99. 99Mobile Mystic Societies
  100. 100Rest
  101. 101Follow Me
  102. 102The Poet’s Child
  103. 103Mother’s Way
  104. 104Feast of the Presentation of Mary in the Temple
  105. 105St. Bridget
  106. 106New Year
  107. 107Zeila (A Story From a Star)
  108. 108Better Than Gold
  109. 109Sea Dreamings
  110. 110Sea Rest
  111. 111Sea Reverie
  112. 112The Immaculate Conception
  113. 113Fifty Years at the Altar
  114. 114Song of the Deathless Voice
  115. 115To Mr. and Mrs. A. M. T.
  116. 116To Virginia (on Her Birthday)
  117. 117Epilogue
  118. 118Posthumous Poems
  119. 119A Reverie [`”O Songs!” I Said:’]
  120. 120Only a Dream
  121. 121The Poet
  122. 122The Child of the Poet
  123. 123The Poet Priest
  124. 124Wilt Pray for Me?

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