New 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...
Zeila 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...
Better 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...
Sea 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...
Sea 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 ...
Sea 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...
Fifty 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...
To 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...
In 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...
A Reverie [`"O Songs！" I said'] "O Songs！" I said "Stop sounding in my soul Just for a little while and let me sleep, Res...