Classic and Contemporary Poetry
MY BEADS, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poet's Biography First Line: Sweet, blessed beads! I would not part Last Line: Of jesus and his mother fair. Subject(s): Rosary | ||||||||
Sweet, blessed beads! I would not part With one of you for richest gem That gleams in kingly diadem; Ye know the history of my heart. For I have told you every grief In all the days of twenty years, And I have moistened you with tears, And in your decades found relief. Ah! time has fled, and friends have failed And joys have died; but in my needs Ye were my friends, my blessed beads! And ye consoled me when I wailed. For many and many a time, in grief, My weary fingers wandered round Thy circled chain, and always found In some Hail Mary sweet relief. How many a story you might tell Of inner life, to all unknown; I trusted you and you alone, But ah! ye keep my secrets well. Ye are the only chain I wear -- A sign that I am but the slave, In life, in death, beyond the grave, Of Jesus and His Mother fair. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE ROSARY by ROBERT CAMERON ROGERS THE ROSARY by CHARLOTTE A. BRADSHAW THE LAY OF THE BROWN ROSARY by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING A PARAPHRASE ON THE LORD'S PRAYER by JOHN BYROM THE TROUBLE WITH THE TIMES by THOMAS MCGRATH ROSARY BEADS by HERMAN MELVILLE THE CHILD'S PRAYER by ROBERT DE MONTESQUIOU THE FIRST ROSARY by NAOMI REYNOLDS SENTINEL SONGS: 1 by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN |
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