CONTENTS

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Belloc, Hilaire
[Our Lord and Lady]1
[To the Balliol Men Still in Africa]2
[The South Country]3
[The Early Morning]6
[The Prophet Lost in the Hills at Evening]6
[The Birds]7
[Courtesy]8
[Noel]9
Benson, Robert Hugh
[After a Retreat]10
[The Teresian Contemplation]11
Blunt, Wilfred Scawen
[How Shall I Build]12
[Song]13
[The Desolate City]13
Brayton, Teresa
[A Christmas Song]16
Campbell, Nancy
[Like One I Know]18
Carbery, Ethna
[Mea Culpa]19
[In Tir-na’n-Og]20
Carroll, P. J.
[Lady Day in Ireland]22
[St. Patrick’s Treasure]23
Casey, D. A.
[The Spouse of Christ]24
Colum, Padraic
[Christ the Comrade]25
[An Old Woman of the Roads]25
Conway, Katherine Eleanor
[The Heaviest Cross of All]26
[Saturninus]28
Cox, Eleanor Rogers
[Dreaming of Cities Dead]29
[Death of Cuchulain]30
[Gods and Heroes of the Gael]32
[At Benediction]34
Custance, Olive
[Primrose Hill]34
[Twilight]35
Daly, Thomas A.
[To a Thrush]36
[To a Plain Sweetheart]40
[To a Robin]40
[The Poet]41
[October]42
De Vere, Aubrey
[Sorrow]43
[Human Life]44
[Cardinal Manning]45
[Song]45
Dollard, James B.
[The Sons of Patrick]46
[Song of the Little Villages]48
[The Soul of Karnaghan Buidhe]49
Donahue, D. J.
[The Angelic Chorus]51
Donnelly, Eleanor
[Ladye Chapel at Eden Hall]52
[Mary Immaculate]52
Downing, Eleanor
[The Pilgrim]53
[On the Feast of the Assumption]54
[Mary]55
Dowson, Ernest
[Extreme Unction]58
[Benedictio Domini]58
[Carthusians]58
Drane, Augusta T.
[Maris Stella]60
Earls, S.J., Michael
[An Autumn Rose Tree]62
[To a Carmelite Postulant]63
Eden, Helen Parry
[A Purpose of Amendment]64
[The Confessional]65
[An Elegy]66
[Sorrow]70
Edmund, C.P., Father
[Our Lady’s Death]71
Egan, Maurice Francis
[Vigil of the Immaculate Conception]71
[The Old Violin]72
[Maurice de Guerin]73
[He Made Us Free]73
Faber, Father
[Grandeur of Mary]75
[Right Must Win]77
Fitzpatrick, John
[Mater Dolorosa]79
Furlong, Alice
[Yuletide]79
Gaffney, O.P., Francis A.
[Our Lady of the Rosary]81
Garesché, S.J., Edward F.
[At the Leap of the Waters]81
[Niagara]83
Giltinan, Caroline
[Communion]85
Griffin, Gerald
[The Nightingale]86
Guiney, Louise Imogen
[Tryste Noel]86
[The Wild Ride]87
[Ode for a Master Mariner Ashore]89
[In Leinster]91
Hawker, Robert Stephen
[Aunt Mary]92
[King Arthur’s Wassail]93
Hayes, James M.
[Old Nuns]94
[The Mother of the Rose]95
[Transfiguration]96
Hickey, Emily M.
[Beloved, It Is Morn]97
[A Sea Story]98
Hopkins, S.J., Gerard
[The Starlight Night]99
[The Habit of Perfection]100
[Spring]101
Iris, Scharmel
[The Friar of Genoa]102
Johnson, Lionel
[The Dark Angel]103
[Te Martyrum Candidatus]105
[Christmas and Ireland]106
[To My Patrons]108
[Our Lady of the Snows]109
[Cadgwith]111
[A Friend]112
[The Statue of King Charles at Charing Cross]113
Kelly, Blanche Mary
[The Housewife’s Prayer]115
[Brother Juniper]116
Kelley, Mgr., F. C.
[The Throne of the King]117
Lathrop, George Parsons
[The Child’s Wish Granted]127
[Charity]128
Lathrop, Rose Hawthorne
[A Song Before Grief]128
[The Clock’s Song]129
Leamy, Sir Edmund
[Ireland]130
Leamy, Edmund (Senior)
[Music Magic]132
[Gethsemane]133
[My Lips Would Sing ⸺]134
[My Ship]135
[Visions]135
Leslie, Shane
[Ireland, Mother of Priests]137
Lindsay, Ruth Temple
[The Hunters]138
Livingston, Father
[In Cherry Land]140
M. S. M.
[Surrender]141
Mangan, James Clarence
[Pentecost]142
[Dark Rosaleen]143
MacDonagh, Thomas
[What is White?]146
[Wishes for My Son]147
MacManus, Seumas
[Resignation]148
[In Dark Hour]150
Maynard, Theodore
[A Song of Colours]151
[The World’s Miser]152
[Cecidit, Cecidit, Babylon Magna]153
[A Song of Laughter]154
[Apocalypse]155
McCarthy, Denis A.
[St. Brigid]156
[Rosa Mystica]160
[The Poor Man’s Daily Bread]161
McGee, Thomas D’Arcy
[To Ask Our Lady’s Patronage]162
Meynell, Alice
[A General Communion]163
[The Shepherdess]163
[Christ in the Universe]164
[“I Am the Way”]165
[Via, et Veritas, et Vita]166
[Unto Us a Son is Given]166
[To a Daisy]167
[The Newer Vainglory]168
Meynell, Wilfrid
[The Folded Flock]168
Moriarty, Helen L.
[Convent Echoes]169
Newman, John Henry
[England]170
[The Pillar of the Cloud]171
[The Greek Fathers]171
[Relics of Saints]172
[The Sign of the Cross]173
O’Donnell, C.S.C., Charles L.
[The Son of God]173
[To St. Joseph]174
[The Dead Musician]175
O’Hagan, Thomas
[Giotto’s Campanile]178
O’Reilly, John Boyle
[Name of Mary]179
O’Reilly, Mary A.
[A Christmas Carol]180
O. Sheel, Shaemas
[Roma Mater Sempaeterna]182
[Mary’s Baby]183
[They Went Forth to Battle]183
[He Whom A Dream Hath Possessed]184
Pallen, Condé Benoist
[Maria Immaculata]186
[The Raising of the Flag]191
[The Babe of Bethlehem]194
Patmore, Coventry
[The Toys]195
[“If I Were Dead”]197
[Departure]197
[Regina Cœli]199
Pearse, P. H.
[Ideal]199
Phillips, Charles
[Music]200
Plunkett, Joseph M.
[I See His Blood Upon the Rose]202
[The Stars Sang in God’s Garden]202
Probyn, May
[Is It Nothing to You?]203
[The Bees of Myddleton Manor]204
Proctor, Adelaide Anne
[A Legend]210
[The Sacred Heart]211
[The Annunciation]214
[Our Daily Bread]216
Randall, James Ryder
[My Maryland]217
[Magdalen]220
[Why the Robin’s Breast Was Red]221
Repplier, Agnes
[Le Repos in Egypte—The Sphinx]221
Roche, James Jeffrey
[Andromeda]222
[Nature the False Goddess]223
[Three Doves]224
[The Way of the World]225
Rooney, John Jerome
[Ave Maria]225
[Revelation]227
[Marquette on the Shores of the Mississippi]229
[The Empire Builder]230
[The Men Behind the Guns]233
Russell, S.J., Matthew
[A Thought From Cardinal Newman]234
Ryan, Abram J.
[The Conquered Banner]235
[A Child’s Wish]237
[Sword of Robert E. Lee]238
[Song of the Mystic]239
Seton, E.
[Mary, Virgin and Mother]242
Sigerson Dora
[The Wind on the Hills]242
Spalding, John Lancaster
[Believe and Take Heart]244
Stoddard, Charles Warren
[Ave Maria Bells]245
[Stigmata]246
[The Bells of San Gabriel]247
Strahan, G.S.C., Speer
[The Poor]249
[The Promised Country]250
[Holy Communion]250
Swan, Caroline D.
[Stars of Cheer]251
Tabb, John Bannister
[Christ and the Pagan]252
[Out of Bounds]253
[Father Damien]253
[Recognition]253
[“Is Thy Servant a Dog?”]254
Thompson, Francis
[Lilium Regis]254
[To the English Martyrs]255
[The Hound of Heaven]261
[The Dread of Height]267
[To My Godchild]270
Tynan, Katherine
[Michael the Archangel]272
[Planting Bulbs]274
[Sheep and Lambs]275
[The Making of Birds]276
[The Man of the House]278
Walsh, Thomas
[Cœlo et in Terra]279
[Egidio of Coimbra]281