St Jeromes High School - Leone Yearbook (Tamaqua, PA)

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wn f iQWWWWW Qmnng cIDut Qlatbuht nets In the present day pottry we have a numher of poems from the pen of Ci'lfl1OllC Poets Cnc of the greatest and lvest lanown IS oyce Klll1lCI' who wrote Mann Street Blut Valentmt Trees and many others whlch are wtdcly read Tht themes ol lus poems art hte growth sulltrmg and eath amhmon leadershlp and vahancy On these prtnctples he laased all has poems The most characterlstxc development of h1s poetry was towards the SlllglI1g and celebration of the hte of common folks He was a hung and mdlgnant protest agalnst the sneer whxch the worldhng and cynical dlrect agamst the numhle folk who helleve xn God xn the Dome Lam ln s mple love fldehty and vlrtue Another zealous and ardent poet was Father Abram Ryan who hved during thc Clkll mar perlod Of the many poems he wrote, the best known are A lVlen'-ory The Sword of Robert Lee, My Beads and Llfe HIS poems possess the purest source of poetic msplratton, truth and power Lxlce nearly all great men Father Ryan owes much of hls success to the early traxnmg and example of hls mother He also had great devo tlon to the Mother of God Wlaen his mother dled he placed a collec txon of h1s poems on her Grave a I'-lfflflg trlhute of a talented son to a devoted Mother Father Ryan not only won dlstxnctlon as a poet but also as an orator and lecturer If he had remanned m good health hls worlcs would have been more numerous but the Angel ol Death ended the career of our famous poet prlest Some other Catholic Poets well worthy of mentlon are ohn Henry Newman, Father Faber, Hxlalre Belloc, Francls Thompson and Thomas A Daly the authors, respectlvely of The Slgn of the Cross Grandeur of Mary Our Lord and Lady The Hound of Heaven, The Poet M argaret Swe eney, 3 - 4 ' ' . 2 'S' f ' !' 'A .. V ' , 1 ff , , 1 Q - f 1 . t . ' ' I V . ,. . . . J ' ff ' 77 If . YV ff 1, 5 1 Q x 4 xi X Q K I V K u . . A l ' s - . 'l , . , ' Cl . t , , . 1 , K Q K R 1 K K n I I - - I . Y . t . . V . . . . f . 1 1 4 t . t .L , A i ' f s V ' Q ' ' 1 1 1 1 - . , . . . J. v. Y . QQ 99 QQ 97 E! V A Q 5 . ,, . . . . . t . . t , K K K u 4 K C - C 1 ' r K 1 . . 1 1 t . 1, Q C - n I J - -e 1 ' xr ct ' , 7 1 C - ,, ,Q 77 QQ as ee as 1 , 1 v - x , 7 . t -. Page tfnrlv thru ffffffwnaW

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