Whene'er a child dies from a mother's arms, A grave is dug within the mother's heart: She watches it alone; no words of art Can tell the story of her vigils there. This garland fading even while 'tis fair, It is a mother's memory of a grave, When God hath taken her whom heaven gave.
Poems : patriotic, religious, miscellaneous / by Abram J. Ryan [electronic text]
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- Poems : patriotic, religious, miscellaneous / by Abram J. Ryan [electronic text]
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- Ryan, Abram Joseph, 1836-1886
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- Baltimore, Md.: John B. Piet & Co.
- 1884
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"Poems : patriotic, religious, miscellaneous / by Abram J. Ryan [electronic text]." In the digital collection American Verse Project. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/BAD9548.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 6, 2024.