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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
AFTER SEEING PIUS IX, by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN Poet's Biography First Line: I saw his face to-day, he looks a chief Last Line: "and, going, whispered: ""pray for me, my child." Subject(s): Pius Ix, Pope (1792-1878) | |||
I saw his face to-day; he looks a chief Who fears not human rage, nor human guile; Upon his cheeks the twilight of a grief, But in that grief the starlight of a smile. Deep, gentle eyes, with drooping lids that tell They are the homes where tears of sorrow dwell; A low voice -- strangely sweet -- whose very tone Tells how these lips speak oft with God alone. I kissed his hand, I fain would kiss his feet; "No, no," he said; and then, in accents sweet, His blessing fell upon my bended head. He bade me rise; a few more words he said, Then took me by the hand -- the while he smiled -- And, going, whispered: "Pray for me, my child." | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE DREAM OF PIO NONO by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER TO PIUS IX by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER SENTINEL SONGS: 1 by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN THE CONQUERED BANNER by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN ONLY A DREAM by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN WILT PRAY FOR ME? by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN FAR AWAY' by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN GONE' (S. M. A.) by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN OUT OF THE DEPTHS' by ABRAM JOSEPH RYAN |
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