The Temple Of Friendship (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
IN the depths of the silent wood the temple of Friendship stood,Like a dream of snow-white stone, or a vestal ...
IN the depths of the silent wood the temple of Friendship stood,Like a dream of snow-white stone, or a vestal ...
"Come, sing a new song to her here while we listen!"They cry to her sons who sing;And one sings: " ...
THOSE are vulgar things we pay for, be they stones for crowns of kings;While the precious and the peerless are ...
To toil all day and lie worn-out at night;To rise for all the years to slave and sleep,And breed new ...
THERE once was a time when, as old songs prove it,The earth was not round, but an endless plain;The sea ...
Nor gold, nor silver are the words set here,Nor rich-wrought chasing on design of art;But rugged relics of an unknown ...
WHERE the foot of the rainbow meets the field,And the grass resplendent glows,The earth will a precious treasure yield,So the ...
LOVE'S Herald flew o'er all the fields of Greece,Crying: "Love's altar waits for sacrifice!"And all folk answered, like a wave ...
A GREAT rich city of power and pride,With streets full of traders, and ships on the tide;With rich men and ...
Poets should not reason:Let them sing!Argument is treason -Bells should ring.Statements none, nor questions;Gnomic words.Spirit-cries, suggestions,Like the birds.He may use ...
GOD makes a poet: touches soul and sight,And lips and heart, and sends him forth to sing;His fellows hearing, own ...
HUNGER goes sleeplesslyThinking of food;Evil lies painfullyYearning for good.Life is a confluence:Nature must move,Like the heart of a poet,Toward beauty ...
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