The Feast Of The Gael (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
St. Patrick's DayI.WHAT a onion of hearts is the love of a motherWhen races of men in her name unite!For ...
St. Patrick's DayI.WHAT a onion of hearts is the love of a motherWhen races of men in her name unite!For ...
DEATH OF PRESIDENT GARFIELD.ONCE in a lifetime, we may see the veilTremble and lift, that hides symbolic things;The Spirit's vision, ...
IN the old days, while yet the Church was young,And men believed that praise of God was sungIn curbing self ...
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 ...
YE white-maned waves of the Western Sea,That ride and roll to the strand,Ye strong-winged birds, never forced a-leeBy the gales ...
On the 5th of January,!878, three of the Irish political prisoners, who had been confined since!866, were set at liberty. ...
NEVER nobler was the Senate,Never grander the debate:Rome's old gods are on their trialBy the judges of the state!Torn by ...
LET be what is: why should we strive and wrestleWith awkward skill against a subtle doubt?Or pin a mystery 'neath ...
GOD'S order, "Light!" when all was void and darkBrought mornless noon, a flame without a spark.A gift unearned, that none ...
FROM THE HINDOSTANEE."I AM poor," said Chunder Ali, while the Mandarin above himFrowned in supercilious anger at the dog who ...
To toil all day and lie worn-out at night;To rise for all the years to slave and sleep,And breed new ...
The Steamer " Atlantic " Was Wrecked Near Halifax, N. S., April1, 1873, And 560 Lives Lost.FOR months and years, ...
I'D rather live in Bohemia than in any other land;For only there are the values true,And the laurels gathered in ...
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 ...
IS he well blessed who has no eyes to scanThe woeful things that shadow all our life:The latent brute behind ...
Nor gold, nor silver are the words set here,Nor rich-wrought chasing on design of art;But rugged relics of an unknown ...
Died March 20, 1875.I.DEAD, with his harness on him:Rigid and cold and white,Marking the place of the vanguardStill in the ...
AS grains from chaff, I sift these worldly rules,Kernels of wisdom, from the husks of schools:I.Benevolence befits the wisest mind;But ...
WHAT man would be wise, let him drink of the riverThat bears on its bosom the record of timeA message ...
There may be standard weight for precious metal,But deeper meaning it must ever hold;Thank God, there are some things no ...
IT chanced to me upon a time to sailAcross the Southern Ocean to and fro;And, landing at fair isles, by ...
MY friend he was; my friend from all the rest;With childlike faith he oped to me his breast;No door was ...
They brought them up from their huts in the fens, The woeful sufferers gaunt and grim;They flocked from the city's noisome ...
ONLY a fallen horse, stretched out there on the road.Stretched in the broken shafts, and crushed by the heavy load;Only ...
THERE is blood on the face of the earth-It reeks through the years, and is red:Where Truth was slaughtered at ...
"AND Smith has made money?""O, no; that's a myth:Smith never made moneyBut money made Smith!"_______________A sculptor is Deming-a great man, ...
I am tired of planning and toilingIn the crowded hives of men;Heart-weary of building and spoiling,And spoiling and building again.And ...
THE Word was first, says the revelation:Justice is older than error or strife;The Word preceded the IncarnationAs symbol and type ...
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