Unroll Erin’s flag! fling its folds to the breeze! Let it float o’er the land, let it flash o’er the seas! Lift it out of the dust — let it wave as of yore, When its chiefs with their clans stood around it and swore That never! no, never! while God gave them life, And they had an arm and…
Epilogue By Abram Joseph Ryan
Go, words of mine! and if you live Only for one brief, little day; If peace, or joy, or calm you give To any soul; or…
Dreamland By Abram Joseph Ryan
Over the silent sea of sleep, Far away! far away! Over a strange and starlit deep Where the beautiful shadows sway; Dim in the dark, Glideth a bark, Where…
Dreaming By Abram Joseph Ryan
The moan of a wintry soul Melted into a summer song, And the words, like the wavelet’s roll, Moved murmuringly along. And the song flowed far…
Death of the Prince Imperial By Abram Joseph Ryan
Waileth a woman, “O my God!” A breaking heart in a broken breath, A hopeless cry o’er her heart-hope’s death! Can words catch the chords of the winds…
Death of the Flower By Abram Joseph Ryan
I love my mother, the wildwood, I sleep upon her breast; A day or two of childhood, And then I sink to rest. I had once…
Death By Abram Joseph Ryan
Out of the shadows of sadness, Into the sunshine of gladness, Into the light of the blest; Out of a land very dreary, Out of a world very…
De Profundis By Abram Joseph Ryan
Ah! days so dark with death’s eclipse! Woe are we! woe are we! And the nights are ages long! From breaking hearts, thro’ pallid lips O my God!…
C.S.A. By Abram Joseph Ryan
Do we weep for the heroes who died for us, Who living were true and tried for us, And dying sleep side by side for us; The Martyr-band That…
Better than Gold By Abram Joseph Ryan
Better than grandeur, better than gold, Than rank and titles a thousand fold, Is a healthy body and a mind at ease, And simple pleasures that always please A…