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 ...
PENAL COLONY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA, 1857THE sun rose o'er dark Fremantle,And the Sentry stood on the wall;Above him, with white ...
Negro Patriot-Killed In Boston, March 5,!770.WHERE shall we seek for a hero, and where shall we find a story?Our laurels ...
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 ...
THUNDER of guns, and cries-banners and spears and blood!Troops have died where they stood holding the vantage points-They have raced ...
GOD send us peace, and keep red strife away;But should it come, God send us men and steel!The land is ...
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 ...
AN INCIDENT OF THE FLOOD IN MASSACHUSETTS, ON MAY16,1874.NO song of a soldier riding downTo the raging fight from Winchester ...
"Come, sing a new song to her here while we listen!"They cry to her sons who sing;And one sings: " ...
THOSE are vulgar things we pay for, be they stones for crowns of kings;While the precious and the peerless are ...
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 ...
"What is the real good?"I asked in musing mood.Order, said the law court;Knowledge, said the school;Truth, said the wise man;Pleasure, ...
"What is the real good?"I ask in a musing mood."Order," said the law court;"Knowledge," said the school;"Truth," said the wise ...
SOLDIER, why do you shrink from the hiss of the hungry lead?The bullet that whizzed is past; the approaching ball ...
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