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Ryan, Abram J[oseph] Poems: Patriotic, Religious, Miscellaneous Baltimore, Maryland, USA The Baltimore Publishing Company 1888 Twelfth Edition Hard Cover Fair No Jacket 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall PRINCETON LIST OF 100 FAMOUS SOUTHERN BOOKS AUTHOR FRONTISPIECE PLATE ILLUSTRATIONS (some missing) "A New, Revised, and Enlarged Edition, Containing a Memoir, and all the Poems Written by Him up to the Time of his Death." Poetry includes: The Sword of Robert Lee "Shielding the feeble, smiting the strong, Guarding the right, avenging the wrong, Gleamed the sword of Lee. Forth from its scabbard, high in air Beneath Virginia's sky", In Memory of My Brother, "The fairest form amid all the slain, Like a child asleep he nestles," C.S.A. "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 hallowed our land, With the blood they shed in a tide for us?", The South, etc. Fair blue cloth. Significant wear, hinges starting binding loose, inscription to Lillian Moran in ink from 1895 ( Regina NWT) North West Territories. 1888, (1880), 8vo, xxxiii, 35-456pp. Price:
19.95 CAD
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