Abram Joseph Ryan

Poems (4)

• A Child's Wish

  I wish I were the little key / That locks Love’s Captive in, …

• Sentinel Songs

  When falls the soldier brave / Dead—at the feet of wrong,— …

• The Cause of the South

  From “Sentinel Songs” / THE FALLEN cause still waits,— …

• The Conquered Banner

  Furl that Banner, for ’t is weary; / Round its staff ’t is drooping dreary: …