Unity Poems (101 Poems)
Crispus Attucks (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
Negro Patriot-Killed In Boston, March 5,!770. WHERE shall we seek for a hero, and where shall we find a story?Our laurels are wreathed for conquest, our songs for completed glory.But we honor a shrine unfinished, a column uncapped with pride,If … Continue reading
Paradiso: Canto II (Dante Alighieri Poems)
Paradiso Canto 2 O Ye, who in some pretty little boat,Eager to listen, have been followingBehind my ship, that singing sails along, Turn back to look again upon your shores;Do not put out to sea, lest peradventure,In losing me, you … Continue reading
The Reign Of Reason (Hanford Lennox Gordon Poems)
The day of truth is dawning. I beholdO’er darksome hills the trailing robes of goldAnd silent footsteps of the gladsome dawn.The morning breaks by sages long foretold;Truth comes to set upon the world her throne.Men lift their foreheads to the … Continue reading
The Priests Of Ireland (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
YOU have waited, Priests of Ireland, until the hour was late:You have stood with folded arms until ’twas asked-Why do they wait?By the fever and the famine you have seen your flocks grow thin,Till the whisper hissed through Ireland that … Continue reading
Elegy XIX (John Donne Poems)
Whoever loves, if he do not proposeThe right true end of love, he’s one that goesTo sea for nothing but to make him sick.Love is a bear-whelp born : if we o’er-lickOur love, and force it new strange shapes to … Continue reading
In His Magnificatio (Hakim Sanai Poems)
When He shows His Nature to His creation, into what mirror shall He enter? The burden of proclaiming the Unity not everyone bears; the desire of proclaiming the Unity not everyone tastes. In every dwelling is God adored; but the … Continue reading
Lines On The Death Of Bismarck (John Jay Chapman Poems)
(Reprinted from “The Political Nursery,” midsummer number, 1898) AT midnight Death dismissed the chancellor,But left the soul of Bismarck on his face.Titanic, in the peace and power of bronze,With three red roses loosely in his grasp,Lies the Constructor. His machineryRevolving … Continue reading
To my Friend Mr. Motteux, on His Tragedy Called Beauty in Distress, Published in 1698 (John Henry Dryden Poems)
‘Tis hard, my friend, to write in such an age,As damns not only poets, but the stage.That sacred art, by heaven itself infused,Which Moses, David, Solomon, have used,Is now to be no more: the Muses’ foesWould sink their Maker’s praises … Continue reading
On Church Communion – Part II. (John Byrom Poems)
If once establish’d the essential part,The inward Church, the Temple of the Heart,Or house of God, the substance, and the sumOf what is pray’d for in – thy kingdom come;To make an outward correspondence true,We must recur to Christ’s example … Continue reading
On Church Communion – Part III. (John Byrom Poems)
A Local union, on the other hand,Though crowded numbers should together stand,Joining in one same Form of pray’r and praise,Or Creed express’d in regulated phrase;Or ought beside – though it assume the nameOf Christian-Church, may want to real claim. For … Continue reading