The Patriot’s Game (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
I.TEAR down the crape from the column! Let the shaft stand white and fair!Be silent the wailing music-there is no ...
I.TEAR down the crape from the column! Let the shaft stand white and fair!Be silent the wailing music-there is no ...
Annie of Tharaw, my true love of old,She is my life, and my goods, and my gold.Annie of Tharaw, her ...
O Lord, God,of nations and of us tooListen to us,Cherish usLet goodness flourish,May your blessings flow.DefendAotearoaLet all people,Red skin, white ...
Oh! I love the free air of the grand mountain height, In its freshness new vigour I find,It makes life's warm ...
If the Afghan people are of the human race,In disposition and ways they are very Hindus.They are possessed of neither ...
Oh, Anne, your offences to me have been grievous: I thought from my wrath no atonement could save you:But woman is ...
(OF AN UNFINISHED POEM.) Dear woman! star of sad life's clouded heaven,I dedicate myself to thee again; Fair woman! as ...
An Incident in One Act.PERSONS. THE KING, THE QUEEN, EARL ATHULF, THE MINSTREL.Heralds, Pages, Men-at-Arms, Sentries. TIME: THE PAST.SCENE:Night in ...
Withered with years and broken by Time's play I still do live, who only seek to lay My harp aside ...
I LAND of the South! - imperial land! - ...
Once over the ocean in distant lands,In an age long past, were two hostile bands—Two armies of men, both brave, ...
Is there no bond of blood to you, my brother? Who have called her ours, the ancient Mother, And here ...
"Lord, Who, from Thy high position,See'th the humble politician,Knoweth all his secret schemes,Readeth all his inmost dreams,Hearken, Lord, unto our ...
Lo! I am athirst, said the brown earth, "And I would drink my fill." "Have I not slaked thee," cried ...
Sometime this world was so steadfast and stable,That man's word was held obligation;And now it is so false and deceivable,That ...
Who are the men that clamor mostAgainst the war, its cause and cost,And who Jeff Davis sometimes toast? The Copperheads.Who, ...
A word out of season Of vapid unreasonMay seem mere political twaddle at best; But this thing needs abatement ...
Not sowing hate dissension in our walk live peaceably in Christ sharing the love of God Walking humbly before our ...
Division, dissension derision, revulsion judging our neighbors while we yet sin Hate isn't Christian no part of his life nothing ...
The tongue of the wise silent to quell trouble slow to speak words of anger offering peace instead The quiet ...
Ah, Douglass, we have fall'n on evil days, Such days as thou, not even thou didst know, When thee, the ...
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