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Devotional Poems

By Emily Hickey
Hickey, Emily Henrietta (1845-1924)

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OF THE ALTAR
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1 INVENI QUEM DILIGIT ANIMA MEA
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2 FOUND IN THE TEMPLE
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3 A SONNET OF THE MOST HOLY EUCHARIST
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4 WHENCE TO ME
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6 IN REPARATION
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OF THE SWEET MOTHER
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7 CONCEPTA EST MARIA—I
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8 CONCEPTA EST MARIA—II
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9 MATER AMABILIS
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10 PRAY FOR ME, MOTHER OF GOD!
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11 OUR LADY'S CROWNS
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12 TO THE MOTHER, FOR THOSE WHO ARE IN BONDS
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13 IMMACULATA, ORA PRO NOBIS
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14 TO THE QUEEN OF THE MOST HOLY ROSARY
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CHRISTMASTIDE
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16 BETHLEHEM BELLS
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18 JESUS IS BORN!
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20 AT THE MANGER
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22 CHRISTMAS, 1915
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PASSIONTIDE AND EASTER
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23 BEHOLD YOUR KING!
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IN SPLENDORIBUS SANCTORUM
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24 ST. GABRIEL THE ARCHANGEL
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25 JOSEPH, FILI DAVID, NOLI TIMERE
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26 ST. STEPHEN, FIRST MARTYR
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27 ST. JOHN THE EVANGELIST
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28 SAINTS ROUND THE ALTAR
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29 TE CANDIDATUS LAUDET EXERCITUS
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OTHER DEVOTIONAL POEMS
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30 CREDO
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31 THE SPIRIT INDEED IS WILLING, BUT THE FLESH IS WEAK
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32 GIVER OF LIGHT
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33 SEEKERS
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35 ANY CHILD TO THE NEW-FOUND MOTHER
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I AD MATREM, SANCTAM ECCLESIAM
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II AD MATREM, SANCTUM ECCLESIAM
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37 TO MY GUARDIAN ANGEL
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38 KEEPING IN GIVING
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39 THE MASTER'S WILL
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40 IN COMMENDATION
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41 MAKE ME LOVE THEE SO
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42 THE LADY COURTESY
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FOR A CHILD
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43 GIVE ME THINE HEART
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44 FROM NAZARETH TO CALVARY
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45 BEFORE THE TABERNACLE
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46 A KING'S DAUGHTER OF HETHENESSE
  
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9
MATER AMABILIS

Mater Amabilis,
Ora pro nobis!
Love-worthy Mother,
Pray for your children.

Among the host of lovely names you bear,
O Mary, there is none more perfect-sweet
Than that whereby your children ever greet
Their Mother in the dear Lorettan prayer,
Wherein, O God's beloved, they call you this—
Mater Amabilis!
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Love-worthy Mother, you, love-worthy Maid,
Whom all the generations rise to bless,
Drew God to you in your love-worthiness,
Which could accept Himself, nor be afraid,
Nor aught of grace magnificent could miss,—
Mater Amabilis!
Love-worthy Mother, far and far doth reach
Beyond the deepest depth, the highest height,
Into the one illimitable light,
What we essay to body forth in speech,
Feeble, yet stronger for love's emphasis,—
Mater Amabilis!
Our earth in perfect fealty you trod,
You only found all-fair, all-pure, all-true;
Thrice worthy of the love we bring to you,
The one found worthy of the love of God;
Bear us on that dear Heart of yours to His,—
Mater Amabilis!
Sweet Mother, worthy of the Worthiest,
Stoop down to us and take the love that we,
Unworthy children, offer willingly,
O Mother, who have borne Him on your breast!
Those lovely feet of yours we bend to kiss,—
Mater Amabilis!
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