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Father Ryan's Poems (11)
2023-12-06In Memory of My Brother Young as the youngest who donned the Gray, True as the truest that wore it, Brave as the bravest he marched away, (Hot tears o...
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Father Ryan's Poems (10)
2023-12-06A Laugh —— and A Moan The brook that down the valley So musically drips, Flowed never half so brightly As the light laugh from her lips. H...
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Father Ryan's Poems (9)
2023-12-06Erin's Flag 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 ...
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Father Ryan's Poems (8)
2023-12-06The Old Year and the New How swift they go, Life's many years, With their winds of woe And their storms of tears, And their darkest of nights whos...
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Father Ryan's Poems (7)
2023-12-06Name. But where are the olden pictures? And where are the olden dreams? Has a change come over my vision? Or over the fire's bright gleams? Not ov...
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Father Ryan's Poems (6)
2023-12-06Nocturne I sit to-night by the firelight, And I look at the glowing flame, And I see in the bright red flashes A Heart, a Face, and a Name. How often ...
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Father Ryan's Poems (5)
2023-12-06Rhyme One idle day —— A mile or so of sunlit waves off shore —— In a breezeless bay, We listless lay —— Our boat a...
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Father Ryan's Poems (4)
2023-12-06A Memory One bright memory shines like a star In the sky of my spirit forever; And over my pathway it flashes afar A radiance that perishes never. One...
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Father Ryan's Poems (3)
2023-12-06Lines Go down where the wavelets are kissing the shore, And ask of them why do they sigh? The poets have asked them a thousand times o'er, But the...
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Father Ryan's Poems (2)
2023-12-06Reverie Only a few more years! Weary years! Only a few more tears! Bitter tears! And then —— and then —— like other men, I cea...