The Empty Niche (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
A KING once made a gallery of art,With portraits of dead friends and living graced;And at the end, 'neath curtains ...
A KING once made a gallery of art,With portraits of dead friends and living graced;And at the end, 'neath curtains ...
THE day of Joseph's marriage unto Mary,In thoughful mood he said unto his wife,Behold, I go into a far-off countryTo ...
Chicago, October 9,1871.GAUNT in the midst of the prairie,She who was once so fair;Charred and rent are her garments,Heavy and ...
THERE is no truth in faces, save in children:They laugh and frown and weep from nature's keys;But we who meet ...
'Twas a quaint old clock with a quaint old face, and great iron weights and chain.It stopped when it liked, and ...
I KNEW it all my boyhood: in a lonesome valley meadow,Like a dryad's mirror hidden by the wood's dim arches ...
FOR every sin that comes before the light,And leaves an outward blemish on the soul,How many, darker, cower out of ...
THERE are times when a dream deliciousSteals into a musing hour,Like a face with love capriciousThat peeps from a woodland ...
THERE is blood on the face of the earth-It reeks through the years, and is red:Where Truth was slaughtered at ...
I am tired of planning and toilingIn the crowded hives of men;Heart-weary of building and spoiling,And spoiling and building again.And ...
Do you love me?" she said, when the skies were blue,And we walked where the stream through the branches glistened;And ...
AY, smile as you will, with your saintly face!But I know the lineOf your guard is as weak as a ...
A GOD-LIKE face, with human love and willAnd tender fancy traced in every line:A god-like face, but oh, how human ...
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