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 ...
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 ...
"LOVE is the secret of the world," he said;"The cup we drain and still desire to drink.The loadstone hungers for ...
A West Australian Bushman's StoryWell, mate, you've asked about a fellowYou met to-day, in a black-and-yellowChain-gang suit, with a peddler's ...
Negro Patriot-Killed In Boston, March 5,!770.WHERE shall we seek for a hero, and where shall we find a story?Our laurels ...
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 ...
WHAT song is best for the soldiers?Take no heed of the words, nor choose yon the style of the story;Let ...
GOD send us peace, and keep red strife away;But should it come, God send us men and steel!The land is ...
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 ...
IN the depths of the silent wood the temple of Friendship stood,Like a dream of snow-white stone, or a vestal ...
"HE is false to the heart!" she said, stern-lipped; "he is all untruth;He promises fair as a tree in blossom, ...
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 ...
St. Patrick's DayI.WHAT a onion of hearts is the love of a motherWhen races of men in her name unite!For ...
HOW did he live, this dead man here,With the temple above his grave?He lived as a great one, from cradle ...
HE was old and alone, and he sat on a stone to rest for awhile from the road:His beard was ...
On the 5th of January,!878, three of the Irish political prisoners, who had been confined since!866, were set at liberty. ...
THOSE are vulgar things we pay for, be they stones for crowns of kings;While the precious and the peerless are ...
"SHE is dead!" they say; "she is robed for the grave; O there are lilies upon her breast;Her mother has ...
WISE men use days as husbandmen use bees,And steal rich drops from every pregnant hour;Others, like wasps on blossomed apple-trees,Find ...
To toil all day and lie worn-out at night;To rise for all the years to slave and sleep,And breed new ...
A KING once made a gallery of art,With portraits of dead friends and living graced;And at the end, 'neath curtains ...
AS grains from chaff, I sift these worldly rules,Kernels of wisdom, from the husks of schools:I.Benevolence befits the wisest mind;But ...
THERE is no truth in faces, save in children:They laugh and frown and weep from nature's keys;But we who meet ...
DO not praise: a smile is payment more than meet for what is done;Who shall paint the mote's glad raiment ...
ENSIGN EPPS, at the battle of Flanders,Sowed a seed of glory and dutyThat flowers and flames in height and beautyLike ...
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 ...
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