Go down where the wavelets are kissing the shore,    And ask of them why do they sigh?    The poets have asked them a thousand times o’er,    But they’re…

    Two loves came up a long, wide aisle,     And knelt at a low, white gate;    One — tender and true, with the shyest smile,     One —…

    A baby played with the surplice sleeve     Of a gentle priest; while in accents low,    The sponsors murmured the grand “I believe,”     And the priest bade…

    To the Children of Mary of the Cathedral of Mobile     In the mystical dim of the temple,     In the dream-haunted dim of the day,    The sunlight…

    Winter on the mountains     Summer on the shore,    The robes of sun-gleams woven,     The lake’s blue wavelets wore.     Cold, white, against the heavens,     Flashed winter’s crown…

    Between two pillared clouds of gold     The beautiful gates of evening swung —    And far and wide from flashing fold     The half-furled banners of light, that…

    What has been will be,     ‘Tis the under law of life;    ‘Tis the song of sky and sea,     To the key of calm and strife.     For…

    At last the dream of youth     Stands fair and bright before me,    The sunshine of the home of truth     Falls tremulously o’er me.     And tower, and…

    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;…

    Superior General of the Congregation of the Mission and of the Sisters of Charity.     A shadow slept folded in vestments,     The dream of a smile…