A Nation’s Test (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
I.A NATION'S greatness lies in men, not acres;One master-mind is worth a million hands.No royal robes have marked the planet-shakers,But ...
I.A NATION'S greatness lies in men, not acres;One master-mind is worth a million hands.No royal robes have marked the planet-shakers,But ...
My brother Andy said, that for a soldier he would go,So great excitement came upon the house of McElroe.My father ...
I. In South AfricaOver the lonesome African plainThe stars look down, like eyes of the slain.A bumping ride across gullies ...
The first flush of grey light, the herald of daylight,Is dimly outlining the musterer's camp,Where over the sleeping, the stealthily ...
To town one day rode Solon Stiles,O'er weary roads and rocky miles,And thro' long lanes, whose dusty breath,Did nearly smother ...
(SIERRAS, 1876)DRAMATIS PERSONAEFirst TouristSecond TouristYuba Bill, DriverA StrangerFIRST TOURISTLook how the upland plunges into cover, Green where the pines fade ...
REPORTED BY TRUTHFUL JAMESIt was Andrew Jackson Sutter who, despising Mr. Cutter for remarks he heard him utter in debate ...
How do we discover an antidote to each other, a faculty to commune in spiteful space? Our bleeding hearts and ...
i Blustering God, Stamping across the sky With loud swagger, I fear You not. No, though from Your highest heaven ...
Oh how it would enable me To titillate my vanity If you should choose to label me A Poet of ...
You've heard of "Casey at The Bat," And "Casey's Tabble Dote"; But now it's time To write a rhyme Of ...
I wish I had a simple style In writing verse, As in his prose had Ernie Pyle, So true and ...
I do not swear because I am A sweet and sober guy; I cannot vent a single damn However hard ...
Out in the grey cheerless chill of the morning light, Out on the track where the night shades still lurk, ...
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