Patrick Augustine Sheehan
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- Lord! Thou hast kindled all Thy lamps to-night
For me, the lowliest parasite of earth;
Thy voice gave utterance, Thy will gave birth
To all these streaming galaxies of light.
If Thy creative word can thus delight
One who for ever travails from the dearth
Of love and knowledge, 'midst the boundless girth
That wraps Thee formless in the infinite,
Let me be generous with Thee, dear Lord!
Let me enkindle one bright lamp for Thee
Light for the light, the true Incarnate Word
A feeble flame for burning ecstacy.
Seest Thou, blind to star and glowing sun,
This lamp, that burns before Thine exiled one?
My Oratory Lamp
P.A. SHEEHAN
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Title (uniform): My Oratory Lamp
Author: Patrick Augustine Sheehan
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Canon Sheehan on the Internet
- http://www.canonsheehanremembered.com.
Edition
- Canon P.A. Sheehan, 'My Oratory Lamp,' The Irish Monthly, 26/300 (June 1898) 320.
- Canon P.A. Sheehan, 'The Lamp of the Sanctuary,' in Cithara Mea; Poems (Boston 1900) 231.
Literature
- Herman Joseph Heuser, Canon Sheehan of Doneraile: the story of an Irish parish priest as told chiefly by himself in books, personal memoirs, and letters (New York 1917).
- Arthur Coussens. P. A. Sheehan, zijn leven en zijn werken (Brugge/Bruges 1923).
- Michael P. Linehan, Canon Sheehan of Doneraile: Priest, Novelist, Man of Letters (Dublin 1952).
- James O'Brien (ed.), The Collected Letters of Canon Sheehan of Doneraile, 1883–1913 (Wells 2013).
- James O'Brien, Canon Sheehan of Doneraile 1852–1913: Outlines for a Literary Biography (Wells 2013). [Bibliographical references 205-11.]
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‘My Oratory Lamp’. In: The Irish Monthly: A Magazine of General Literature. Ed. by Matthew Russell SJ, p. 320.
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Creation: By Patrick Augustine Sheehan (1852–1913)
Date: 1898
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Keywords: poetry; 19c; religious
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