The tears that trickled down our eyes,     They do not touch the earth to-day;    But soar like angels to the skies,     And, like the angels, may…

    Weary hearts! weary hearts! by the cares of life oppressed,    Ye are wand’ring in the shadows — ye are sighing for a rest:    There is darkness in…

    They come to ev’ry life — sad, sunless days,     With not a light all o’er their clouded skies;    And thro’ the dark we grope along our…

   First champion of the Crucified!     Who, when the fight began    Between the Church and worldly pride    So nobly fought, so nobly died,     The foremost in the van;    While…

     Back to where the roses rest    Round a shrine of holy name,    (Yes — they knew me when I came)    More of peace and less of fame    …

    Sweet heaven’s smile    Gleamed o’er the isle,     That gems the dreamy sea.    One far gone day,    And flash’d its ray,    More than a thousand years away,     Pure Bridget, over…

    Thou wert once the purest wave     Where the tempests roar;    Thou art now a golden wave     On the golden shore —     Ever — ever — evermore!…

        Sorrow:     A garland for a grave! Fair flowers that bloom,     And only bloom to fade as fast away,    We twine your leaflets ’round our Claudia’s tomb,    …

       A river went singing adown to the sea,        A-singing — low — singing —        And the dim rippling river said softly to me,        “I’m bringing, a-bringing —            While floating…

    I walk down the Valley of Silence —     Down the dim, voiceless valley — alone!    And I hear not the fall of a footstep     Around me,…