Uncle Ned’s Tale: An Old Dragoon’s Story (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
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 ...
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 ...
A Forest-Ranger's Story.JUST nineteen long years, Jack, have passed o'er my shouldersSince close to this spot we lay waiting the ...
"How many have gone?" was the question of oldEre Time our bright ring of its jewels bereft;Alas! for too often ...
AN APPEALLISTEN, young heroes! your country is calling!Time strikes the hour for the brave and the true!Now, while the foremost ...
Ho, for the Pirate Don Durk of Dowdee!He was as wicked as wicked could be,But oh, he was perfectly gorgeous ...
(Fell at Queenston Heights, 1812)VALIANT leader of the little bandThat, fearless, forward rushed to victory,Tho far outnumbered by the enemy,And, ...
On Tampa's hights gray rose the battlements:A summer's day had gone out in the west;The conflagration in the elementsWas ended, ...
The sun hath set; the outworn armies sleep: But, in Arbaces' tent, by summons called For counsel secret on things ...
What shall I be?—I will be a knightWalled up in armour black,With a sword of sharpness, a hammer of might.And ...
When night hung low and dew fell damp,There fell athwart the shadowsThe gleaming watchfires of the camp,Like glow-worms on the ...
Squadron on squadron came galloping on, Furiously charging, and sweeping the field,The squares were hard pressed and the cavalry ...
WHEN head and hands and heart alike are weary; When Hope with folded wings sinks out of sight; ...
The short hour's halt is ended, The red gone from the west, The broken wheel is mended, And the dead ...
'Twas on the 9th of September, a very beautiful day, That a numerous English army came in grand array, And ...
'Twas at the disastrous battle of Maiwand, in Afghanistan, Where the Berkshires were massacred to the last man; On the ...
If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, While round us ...
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