The Amber Whale: A Harpooneer’s Story (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
WE were down in the Indian Ocean, after sperm, and three years out;The last six months in the tropics, and ...
WE were down in the Indian Ocean, after sperm, and three years out;The last six months in the tropics, and ...
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 ...
"LOVE is the secret of the world," he said;"The cup we drain and still desire to drink.The loadstone hungers for ...
PENAL COLONY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA, 1857THE sun rose o'er dark Fremantle,And the Sentry stood on the wall;Above him, with white ...
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 ...
A TALE OF THE PENAL COLONY OF WEST AUSTRALIA."I'LL have it, I tell you! Curse you!-there!"The long knife glittered, was ...
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.TEAR down the crape from the column! Let the shaft stand white and fair!Be silent the wailing music-there is no ...
AN INCIDENT OF THE FLOOD IN MASSACHUSETTS, ON MAY16,1874.NO song of a soldier riding downTo the raging fight from Winchester ...
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 ...
HE was old and alone, and he sat on a stone to rest for awhile from the road:His beard was ...
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 ...
"COME to me for wisdom," said the mountain;In the valley and the plainThere is Knowledge dimmed with sorrow in the ...
IS he well blessed who has no eyes to scanThe woeful things that shadow all our life:The latent brute behind ...
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 ...
WHERE the foot of the rainbow meets the field,And the grass resplendent glows,The earth will a precious treasure yield,So the ...
O Beauteous Southland! Land of yellow airThat hangeth o've thee slumbering, and doth holdThe moveless foliage of thy valleys fair,And ...
FOR every sin that comes before the light,And leaves an outward blemish on the soul,How many, darker, cower out of ...
I START! I have slept for a moment;I have dreamt, sitting here by her chair-Oh, how lonely! What was it ...
THERE is blood on the face of the earth-It reeks through the years, and is red:Where Truth was slaughtered at ...
IN the evergreen shade of an Austral wood,Where the long branches laced above,Through which all day it seemedThe sweet sunbeams ...
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