James Ryder Randall and the Music of the Civil War

May 31, 2013 By 2 Comments
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Journalist and poet, b. 1 Jan., 1839, at Baltimore, Maryland; d. 15 Jan., 1908 at Augusta, Georgia. As author of “Maryland, my Maryland”, the famous war song of the Confederacy, he has been frequently styled the “Poet Laureate of the Lost Cause”. He received his education at Georgetown University, but did not graduate. He travelled [...]

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The Poet of the Confederacy: Father Abram J. Ryan (1839-1886)

May 29, 2013 By 1 Comment
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The poet-priest of the South, born at Norfolk, Virginia, 15 August, 1839; died at Louisville, Kentucky, 22 April, 1886. He inherited from his parents, in its most poetic and religious form, the strange witchery of the Irish temper. Fitted for the priesthood by a nature at once mystic and spiritual, be was ordained just before [...]

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Catholic Poetry

March 21, 2013 By 1 Comment
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THE SISTER OF MERCY By Author Unknown  She shares in the hopes of those who sow, In the gladness of those who reap; She smiles for the joys that the joyful know, And she weeps with those who weep. She prays for the living—she prays for the dead; She joins in the children’s fun; And [...]

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