Uncle Ned’s Tales: How The Flag Was Saved (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
'TWAS a dismal winter's evening, fast without came down the snow,But within, the cheerful fire cast a ruddy, genial glowO'er ...
'TWAS a dismal winter's evening, fast without came down the snow,But within, the cheerful fire cast a ruddy, genial glowO'er ...
Ye Thirty noble Nations Confederate in One!That keep your starry stations Around the Western Sun,—I have a glorious mission, And must obey the ...
Since flaming angels drove our sireFrom Eden's green to walk the mire,We are the folk who tilled the plotAnd ground ...
"Shut your ears, stranger, or turn from Ghost Glen now,For the paths are grown over, untrodden by men now;Shut your ...
A settlement of loveIs what I'd risk if you would.A central fountain and a horse,A little native elegance,Some green-shuttered saffron ...
Three women crept at break of day A-grope along the shadowy way Where Joseph's tomb and garden lay. With blanch of woe each ...
Feet of the flying, and fierce Tops of the sharp-headed spear,Hard by the thickets that pierce, Lo! they are nimble and near.Women ...
It fell about the Martinmas tyde,When our Border steeds get corn and hayThe captain of Bewcastle hath bound him to ...
Of all the fountains that poets sing,--Crystal, thermal, or mineral spring,Ponce de Leon's Fount of Youth,Wells with bottoms of doubtful ...
VON efenin ash der Breitmann vent from his weinhaus vinkin, So peepy mit Falernian vitch he vas starkly trinkin, He ...
So she stands-nude-stretching dullyTwo amber combs loll through her hairA vague molested carpet pitchesDown the dusty length of stair.She does ...
Who turns him from his earthly loveMust other lovers meet and prove:Through plunging lands careened from lightInto the crimson-starred abyss,He ...
The two commandments of Christ the law for eternal life simple and straightforward seemingly loud and clear The words starkly ...
Standing on the schoolhouse grounds waiting for the bus to come the batter and pushing of the teens and those ...
The south-wind brings Life, sunshine, and desire, And on every mount and meadow Breathes aromatic fire, But over the dead ...
'Twas after dread Pultowa's day, When fortune left the royal Swede - Around a slaughtered army lay, No more to ...
GIFT from the cold and silent Past! A relic to the present cast, Left on the ever-changing strand Of shifting ...
Don't cheer, damn you! Don't cheer! Silence! Your bitterest tear Is fulsomely sweet to-day. . . . Down on your ...
I'm sitting by the fire tonight, The cat purrs on the rug; The room's abrim with rosy light, Suavely soft ...
Now Fireman Flynn met Hank the Finn where lights of Lust-land glow; "Let's leave," says he, "the lousy sea, and ...
That afternoon the dream of the toads rang through the elms by Little River and affected the thoughts of men, ...
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