Uncle Ned’s Tale: An Old Dragoon’s Story (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
I OFTEN, musing, wander back to days long since gone by,And far-off scenes and long-lost forms arise to fancy's eye.A ...
I OFTEN, musing, wander back to days long since gone by,And far-off scenes and long-lost forms arise to fancy's eye.A ...
'TWAS a dismal winter's evening, fast without came down the snow,But within, the cheerful fire cast a ruddy, genial glowO'er ...
NATHAN BEANS and William Lambert were two wild New England boys,Known from infancy to revel only in forbidden joys.Many a ...
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 ...
There are lonesome places upon the earthThat have never re-echoed a sound of mirth,Where the spirits abide that feast and ...
Negro Patriot-Killed In Boston, March 5,!770.WHERE shall we seek for a hero, and where shall we find a story?Our laurels ...
THE STORY OF AN ARCTIC NIP.AY, ay, I'll tell you, shipmates,If you care to hear the tale,How myself and the ...
A CITY of Palaces! Yes, that's true: a city of palaces built for trade;Look down this street-what a splendid view ...
I.IN the old Rabbinical stories,So old they might well be true,-The sacred tales of the Talmud,That David and Solomon knew,-There ...
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 ...
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. ...
FROM THE HINDOSTANEE."I AM poor," said Chunder Ali, while the Mandarin above himFrowned in supercilious anger at the dog who ...
IS he well blessed who has no eyes to scanThe woeful things that shadow all our life:The latent brute behind ...
Chicago, October 9,1871.GAUNT in the midst of the prairie,She who was once so fair;Charred and rent are her garments,Heavy and ...
THEY came in the early spring-days,With the first refreshing showersAnd I watched the growing beautyOf the little drooping flowers.They had ...
Died March 20, 1875.I.DEAD, with his harness on him:Rigid and cold and white,Marking the place of the vanguardStill in the ...
I KNEW it all my boyhood: in a lonesome valley meadow,Like a dryad's mirror hidden by the wood's dim arches ...
FOR every sin that comes before the light,And leaves an outward blemish on the soul,How many, darker, cower out of ...
THERE is blood on the face of the earth-It reeks through the years, and is red:Where Truth was slaughtered at ...
LOVE found them sitting in a woodland place,His amorous hand amid her golden tresses;And Love looked smiling on her glowing ...
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