A Son of the Soil (James Brunton Stephens Poems)
Said the Preacher "All is Vanity!"-appending as a reasonThat the things we find our pleasure in are bound to pass ...
Said the Preacher "All is Vanity!"-appending as a reasonThat the things we find our pleasure in are bound to pass ...
'Midst the men and things which willHaunt an old man's memory still,Drollest, quaintest of them all,With a boy's laugh I ...
DAZZLED by sun and drugged by space they wait,These homeless peoples, at our prairie gate;Dumb with the awe of those ...
The savage loves his native shore, Though rude the soil and chill the air; Then well may Erin's sons adore Their isle which ...
"I - At The Post-Office It was a gray, midwinter afternoon.A noisy wind pursued the fine hard flakesOf blinding snow, ...
AH! I remember when I was a girl How my hair naturally used to curl, And how my aunt four ...
THERE is a big artist named Val, The roughs' and the prize-fighters' pal: The mind of a groom And the ...
Prate, ye who will, of so-called charms you find across the sea—The land of stoves and sunshine is good enough ...
Air — "St. Patrick's Day in the Morning."Wake, Irishman, wake, let your slumbers be over,Our children will look to our ...
She's a Liverpool ship, an' becalmed on the Line;Ain't it hell when a Liverpool sailor must dine?Salt pork an' pea ...
Great captain if you will! great Duke! great Slave!Great minion of the crown! - but a great manHe was not! ...
The Irishman loves his fair Colleen,No doubt she is witty and pretty,But in Ireland I have never been,So can't judge ...
Honour the 'neutral' Irishman with weapons in his hand-The men who made the Mulberries-the men who hate the Huns.And you, ...
"Was I at Eureka?" His figure was drawn to a youthful height, And a flood of proud recollections made the ...
For I can snore like a bullhorn or play loud music or sit up talking with any reasonably sober Irishman ...
Prate, ye who will, of so-called charms you find across the sea-- The land of stoves and sunshine is good ...
1 I WANDER all night in my vision, Stepping with light feet, swiftly and noiselessly stepping and stopping, Bending with ...
Said President MacConnachie to Treasurer MacCall: "We ought to have a piper for our next Saint Andrew's Ball. Yon squakin' ...
In distant New Zealand, whose tresses of gold The billows are ceaselessly combing, Away in a village all tranquil and ...
My eldest sister arrived home that morning In her white muslin evening dress. 'Who the hell do you think you ...
In a little town in Devonshire, in the mellow September moonlight, A gentleman passing along a street saw a pitiful ...
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