The Amber Whale: A Harpooneer’s Story (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
WE were down in the Indian Ocean, after sperm, and three years out;The last six months in the tropics, and ...
WE were down in the Indian Ocean, after sperm, and three years out;The last six months in the tropics, and ...
I OFTEN, musing, wander back to days long since gone by,And far-off scenes and long-lost forms arise to fancy's eye.A ...
'TWAS a dismal winter's evening, fast without came down the snow,But within, the cheerful fire cast a ruddy, genial glowO'er ...
ONE righteous word for Law-the common will;One living truth of Faith-God regnant still;One primal test of Freedom-all combined;One sacred Revolution-change ...
PENAL COLONY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA, 1857THE sun rose o'er dark Fremantle,And the Sentry stood on the wall;Above him, with white ...
NOR War nor Peace, forever, old and young,But Strength my theme, whose song is yet unsung,The People's Strength, the deep ...
A TALE OF THE PENAL COLONY OF WEST AUSTRALIA."I'LL have it, I tell you! Curse you!-there!"The long knife glittered, was ...
Negro Patriot-Killed In Boston, March 5,!770.WHERE shall we seek for a hero, and where shall we find a story?Our laurels ...
I.A NATION'S greatness lies in men, not acres;One master-mind is worth a million hands.No royal robes have marked the planet-shakers,But ...
THE STORY OF AN ARCTIC NIP.AY, ay, I'll tell you, shipmates,If you care to hear the tale,How myself and the ...
I.TEAR down the crape from the column! Let the shaft stand white and fair!Be silent the wailing music-there is no ...
AN INCIDENT OF THE FLOOD IN MASSACHUSETTS, ON MAY16,1874.NO song of a soldier riding downTo the raging fight from Winchester ...
HE was old and alone, and he sat on a stone to rest for awhile from the road:His beard was ...
YE white-maned waves of the Western Sea,That ride and roll to the strand,Ye strong-winged birds, never forced a-leeBy the gales ...
LET be what is: why should we strive and wrestleWith awkward skill against a subtle doubt?Or pin a mystery 'neath ...
GOD'S order, "Light!" when all was void and darkBrought mornless noon, a flame without a spark.A gift unearned, that none ...
To toil all day and lie worn-out at night;To rise for all the years to slave and sleep,And breed new ...
I'D rather live in Bohemia than in any other land;For only there are the values true,And the laurels gathered in ...
IS he well blessed who has no eyes to scanThe woeful things that shadow all our life:The latent brute behind ...
Nor gold, nor silver are the words set here,Nor rich-wrought chasing on design of art;But rugged relics of an unknown ...
AS grains from chaff, I sift these worldly rules,Kernels of wisdom, from the husks of schools:I.Benevolence befits the wisest mind;But ...
WHAT man would be wise, let him drink of the riverThat bears on its bosom the record of timeA message ...
'Twas a quaint old clock with a quaint old face, and great iron weights and chain.It stopped when it liked, and ...
There may be standard weight for precious metal,But deeper meaning it must ever hold;Thank God, there are some things no ...
IT chanced to me upon a time to sailAcross the Southern Ocean to and fro;And, landing at fair isles, by ...
THE kindly words that rise within the heart,And thrill it with their sympathetic tone,But die ere spoken, fail to play ...
Though it lash the shallows that line the beach,Afar from the great sea deeps,There is never a storm whose might ...
I do not know the meaning of the sign,But bend before its power, as a reed bendsWhen the black tornado ...
The faithful helm commands the keel,From port to port fair breezes blow;But the ship must sail the convex sea,Nor may ...
LOVE is a plant with double root,And of strange, elastic power:Men's minds are divided in naming the fruit,But a kiss ...
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