Wheat Grains (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
AS grains from chaff, I sift these worldly rules,Kernels of wisdom, from the husks of schools:I.Benevolence befits the wisest mind;But ...
AS grains from chaff, I sift these worldly rules,Kernels of wisdom, from the husks of schools:I.Benevolence befits the wisest mind;But ...
PERHAPS too far in these considerate daysHas patience carried her submissive ways;Wisdom has taught us to be calm and meek,To ...
It has been raining again. I have been indoors, meditating on the shortcomings of life.I wish there were more kindly ...
THE CONVERT.Some to our Hero have a hero's nameDenied, because no father's he could claim;Nor could his mother with precision ...
THE WAGER.Counter and Clubb were men in trade, whose pains,Credit, and prudence, brought them constant gains;Partners and punctual, every friend ...
I do not say new friends are not considerate and true, Or that their smiles ain't genuine, but still I'm ...
O, fellow Australians, listen, attend: We must cease our contemptuous swearingAnd cursing and sneering at Bull's colored friend, For our ...
Listen, soldier, to the tale of the tender nightingale, 'Tis a charm that soon will ease your ...
I've been on my last big roundup,I've finished the long day's work,For the many men who have rode me,And who ...
Then, brother, you would never think me vainOr rude, if I should mention dignity;Think little of it. Dignity's the stainOf ...
A tall, strapping shot, you, considerate hunter,Phantom with gun at the flood of my soul,Do not destroy me now as ...
He'll be pleased if I phone to ask him how he is. It will make me look considerate and he ...
I remember a house where all were good To me, God knows, deserving no such thing: Comforting smell breathed at ...
We chanced in passing by that afternoon To catch it in a sort of special picture Among tar-banded ancient cherry ...
My dearest Frank, I wish you joy Of Mary's safety with a Boy, Whose birth has given little pain Compared ...
The voice of a dead poet calling out from his grave asking me to follow his visions. Once a spirit ...
1 OVER the western sea, hither from Niphon come, Courteous, the swart-cheek'd two-sworded envoys, Leaning back in their open barouches, ...
1 WEAPON, shapely, naked, wan! Head from the mother's bowels drawn! Wooded flesh and metal bone! limb only one, and ...
WHEN my young lady has grown great and staid, And in long raiment wondrously arrayed, She may take pleasure with ...
Now when I have a cold I am careful with my cold, I consult a physician And I do as ...
Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and ...
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