Katharine Tynan Poems

Oh, to have a little farm,
A little hearth so warm and bright,
And three little boys all safe from harm
In from the winter night!
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She goes unwedded all her days
Because some man she never knew,
Her destined mate, has won his bays,
Passed the low door of darkness through.
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In the garden she hath found
Herb of grace and fever-few;
Woundwort there doth much abound,
Heartsease too.
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When swarms of small distractions harry
Devotion like the gnats that fly
Till prayers are cold and customary,
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All will be right when you come home, dear lad,
But oh, 'tis long of coming that you are!
Everything's wrong with all the world and sad;
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JESUS CHRIST they chased away
Comes again another day.
Could they do without Him then
His poor lost unhappy men?
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Now the golden daffodil
Lifts from earth his shining head
That was lately frozen still
In the gardens of the dead.
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Bring flowers to strew His way,
Yea, sing, make holiday;
Bid young lambs leap,
And earth laugh after sleep.
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Out of my door I step into
The country, all her scent and dew,
Nor travel there by a hard road,
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At night, when all the house is still,
Wide-waked the chairs and tables come
And yawn and stretch their limbs until
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