The Pilgrim’s Fathers (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
ONE righteous word for Law-the common will;One living truth of Faith-God regnant still;One primal test of Freedom-all combined;One sacred Revolution-change ...
ONE righteous word for Law-the common will;One living truth of Faith-God regnant still;One primal test of Freedom-all combined;One sacred Revolution-change ...
COME quietly, Britain, all together, come!It is time!We have waited, weighed, and wonderedWho had blundered;Stared askance at one anotherAs our ...
The armies met on Marston Moor,'Midst lightning's flash and thunder's roar;As murky clouds sweep o'er the sky,God's cannonade with man's ...
When the Puritans came overOur hills and swamps to clear,The woods were full of catamounts,And Indians red as deer,With tomahawks ...
FAREWELL, rewards and fairies,Good housewives now may say,For now foul sluts in dairiesDo fare as well as they.And though they ...
Westward sailed the Mayflower pilgrims to a better law - Where in freedom they might live - as Puritans to stand ...
Your eyes are two grey Puritans,Your mouth's a laughing Cavalier;And all day long a civil warBetween them doth appear.For though ...
In boundless mercy, the Redeemer left,The bosom of his Father, and assumedA servant's form, though he had reigned a king,In ...
IWhere West Point crouches, and with lifted shield Turns the whole river eastward through the pass;Whose jutting crags, half silver, ...
IAct first, scene first. A study. Of a kind Half cell, half salon, opulent yet grave;Rare books, low-shelved, yet far ...
live so that youcan stick out your tongueat the insurancedoctorif you will drink hair restorer followevery dram with somegood standarddepilatoryas ...
DEAD AT PITTSFIELD, MASS., 1876O poor Romancer--thou whose printed page,Filled with rude speech and ruder forms of strife,Was given to ...
'T IS very true, I thought you once as fair As women in th' idea are;*Whatever here seems ...
1. Statesmen and apothecaries, Poets, plumbers, antiquaries, Premiers with their secretaries, Home and foreign missionaries, And ...
As Puritans they prominently wax,And none more kindly gives and takes hard knocks.Strong psalmic chanting, like to nasal cocks,They join ...
Talking with my beloved in New York I stood at the outdoor public telephone in Mexican sunlight, in my purple ...
Her sermon, speaking on justification by the law, by grace spoke of our dual citizenship, our dual nature, dual heirs ...
Dear to my heart are the ancestral dwellings of America, Dearer than if they were haunted by ghosts of royal ...
It bothers me: the genital smell of the bay drifting toward me on the T stop, the train circling the ...
I know no paynt of poetry Can mend such colourd Imag'ry In sullen inke: yet Fayrford, I May relish thy ...
1. I am thirty this November. You are still small, in your fourth year. We stand watching the yellow leaves ...
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