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 ...
NOR War nor Peace, forever, old and young,But Strength my theme, whose song is yet unsung,The People's Strength, the deep ...
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 ...
A CITY of Palaces! Yes, that's true: a city of palaces built for trade;Look down this street-what a splendid view ...
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 ...
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 ...
THERE is an old tradition sacred held in Wexford town,That says: "Upon St. Martin's Eve no net shall be let ...
AN INCIDENT OF THE FLOOD IN MASSACHUSETTS, ON MAY16,1874.NO song of a soldier riding downTo the raging fight from Winchester ...
WHAT shall we mourn? For the prostrate tree that sheltered the young green wood?For the fallen cliff that fronted the ...
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, ...
HOW did he live, this dead man here,With the temple above his grave?He lived as a great one, from cradle ...
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 ...
NEVER nobler was the Senate,Never grander the debate:Rome's old gods are on their trialBy the judges of the state!Torn by ...
THOSE are vulgar things we pay for, be they stones for crowns of kings;While the precious and the peerless are ...
GOD'S order, "Light!" when all was void and darkBrought mornless noon, a flame without a spark.A gift unearned, that none ...
"SHE is dead!" they say; "she is robed for the grave; O there are lilies upon her breast;Her mother has ...
A KING once made a gallery of art,With portraits of dead friends and living graced;And at the end, 'neath curtains ...
WHERE the foot of the rainbow meets the field,And the grass resplendent glows,The earth will a precious treasure yield,So the ...
They brought them up from their huts in the fens, The woeful sufferers gaunt and grim;They flocked from the city's noisome ...
A GREAT rich city of power and pride,With streets full of traders, and ships on the tide;With rich men and ...
THERE is blood on the face of the earth-It reeks through the years, and is red:Where Truth was slaughtered at ...
THE Word was first, says the revelation:Justice is older than error or strife;The Word preceded the IncarnationAs symbol and type ...
GOD makes a poet: touches soul and sight,And lips and heart, and sends him forth to sing;His fellows hearing, own ...
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