Catolic Poetry

BELIEVE AND TAKE HEART By John Lancaster Spalding What can console for a dead world?...

Saint Philip in His School. This is the Saint of gentleness and kindness, Cheerful in...

Song of Gratitude to Our Lady of Mount Carmel From the first moments of my...

ODE FOR THE GOLDEN JUBILEE OF VILLANOVA COLLEGE (1892) By Eleanor C. Donnelly OH !...

Aloysius, You have drawn me to you, gentle teacher, loving guide. I am filled with...

Our Lady of the May By J. Corson Miller   Hail, thou thrice-glorious Queen of...

ST. PHILIP IN HIS GOD Philip, on thee the glowing ray Of heaven came down...

"YOU SILENT DEAD" By Sister Ignatius Summer, R.S.M. The silent dead! The silent dead! I've...

O LORD, as You lay so soft and white, A Babe in a manger stall,...

“Authentic Sketches of Living Catholic Authors: Mrs. Henry Wimple Skinner,” The Catholic World 65 (May...

Lead, kindly light, amid the encircling gloom, Lead Thou me on! The night is dark,...

In the early twentieth century, Francis Thompson's poem "The Hound of Heaven" was very popular...

NEWMAN BY GEORGE N. SHUSTER Men found you subtle, master, blending skeins Of taut silk...

Journalist and poet, b. 1 Jan., 1839, at Baltimore, Maryland; d. 15 Jan., 1908 at...

The poet-priest of the South, born at Norfolk, Virginia, 15 August, 1839; died at Louisville,...

THE SISTER OF MERCY By Author Unknown  She shares in the hopes of those who...

ST. VINCENT DE PAUL A hymn to St. Vincent De Paul, The Apostle of brotherly...

HOW THE YOUNG COLONEL DIED By David Gray You want to hear me tell you...

FATHER DAMIEN By John Bannister Tabb O God, the cleanest offering Of tainted earth below,...

The Starry Host By John Lancaster Spalding THE COUNTLESS stars, which to our human eye...

A SOUTHERN FLOWER A flower of the pale, sad South, Yet pale nor sad is...

Born to a distinguished New England family, Eliza Allen Starr grew up "in an atmosphere...

I AM THE WAY By Rev. Alfred Young, C.S.P. "Thou hast laid thy body as...