The Three Queens (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
IN the far time of Earth's sweet maiden beauty,When Morning hung with rapture on her breast;When every sentient life paid ...
IN the far time of Earth's sweet maiden beauty,When Morning hung with rapture on her breast;When every sentient life paid ...
I.Peradventure of old, some bard in Ionian Islands, Walking alone by the sea, hearing the wash of the waves,Learned the secret ...
JANE SNEED BEGAN IT: My poor John, alas,Ten years ago, pretty it was in a ringTo run as boys and ...
The rocky ledge runs far into the sea, And on its outer point, some miles away,The Lighthouse lifts its massive masonry, A ...
When I puff my cigarette,Straight I see a Spanish girl,-Mantilla, fan, coquettish curl,Languid airs and dimpled face,Calculating, fatal grace;Hear a ...
Oh, ye mighty walls and towering spires!Astride the cowled gabled ways;Thy emblazoned scripts depictingFanciful reaction of ancient times;Smoking altars upon ...
We sighed of old till underneath His feetOur pulses beat,Again to sigh in restlessness untilHe saith, "Be still."And with us ...
, The wrathful winter, 'proaching on apace, With blustering blasts had all ybar'd the treen, And old Saturnus, ...
'Twas in the sultry summer-time, as war's red records show, When patriot armies rose to meet a fratricidal foe;When from ...
Fit winding-sheet for thee Was the upheaving eternal sea,Fit dirge the tempest's slave-alarming roll ...
The poet is not for the crowd; he stands An isolation from the multitude,And breathes a breath which comes from ...
O'er the sad threshold, where the cypress bough Supplants the rose that should adorn thy home, On the last pilgrimage ...
Becalmed upon the equatorial seas, A ship of gold lay on a sea of fire; Each sail and ...
I pace the sounding sea-beach and behold How the voluminous billows roll and run, Upheaving and subsiding, while the sun ...
1 COME, my tan-faced children, Follow well in order, get your weapons ready; Have you your pistols? have you your ...
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