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 ...
PENAL COLONY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA, 1857THE sun rose o'er dark Fremantle,And the Sentry stood on the wall;Above him, with white ...
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 ...
IN the far time of Earth's sweet maiden beauty,When Morning hung with rapture on her breast;When every sentient life paid ...
IT is sweet to rejoice for a day,-For a day that is reached at last!It is well for wanderers in ...
LASHED to the planet, glaring at the sky,An eagle at his heart-the Pagan Christ!Why is it, Mystery? O, dumb Darkness, ...
WHAT song is best for the soldiers?Take no heed of the words, nor choose yon the style of the story;Let ...
CAN the earth have a voice? Can the clods have speech,To murmur and rail at the demigods?Trample them! Grind their ...
I.TEAR down the crape from the column! Let the shaft stand white and fair!Be silent the wailing music-there is no ...
YOU have waited, Priests of Ireland, until the hour was late:You have stood with folded arms until 'twas asked-Why do ...
"ISLAND of Destiny! Innisfail!" they cried, when their weary eyesFirst looked on thy beauteous bosom from the amorous, ocean rise."Island ...
MAJESTIC warder by the Nation's gate,Spike-crowned, flame-armed like Agony or Glory,Holding the tablets of some unknown law,With gesture eloquent and ...
WHAT shall we mourn? For the prostrate tree that sheltered the young green wood?For the fallen cliff that fronted the ...
DEATH OF PRESIDENT GARFIELD.ONCE in a lifetime, we may see the veilTremble and lift, that hides symbolic things;The Spirit's vision, ...
"Come, sing a new song to her here while we listen!"They cry to her sons who sing;And one sings: " ...
On the 5th of January,!878, three of the Irish political prisoners, who had been confined since!866, were set at liberty. ...
GOD'S order, "Light!" when all was void and darkBrought mornless noon, a flame without a spark.A gift unearned, that none ...
To toil all day and lie worn-out at night;To rise for all the years to slave and sleep,And breed new ...
NOW, for the faith that is in ye,Polander, Sclav, and Kelt!Prove to the world what the lips have hurledThe hearts ...
MY friend he was; my friend from all the rest;With childlike faith he oped to me his breast;No door was ...
THERE is blood on the face of the earth-It reeks through the years, and is red:Where Truth was slaughtered at ...
The dead who died for Ireland!Oh, these are living wordsTo nerve the hearts of patriots -to steel avenging swords -They ...
DIXON, a Choctaw, twenty years of age,Had killed a miner in a Leadville brawl;Tried and condemned, the rough-beards curb their ...
"What is the real good?"I asked in musing mood.Order, said the law court;Knowledge, said the school;Truth, said the wise man;Pleasure, ...
"What is the real good?"I ask in a musing mood."Order," said the law court;"Knowledge," said the school;"Truth," said the wise ...
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