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 ...
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 ...
LONG time ago, from Amsterdam a vessel sailed away,-As fair a ship as ever flung aside the laughing spray.Upon the ...
Negro Patriot-Killed In Boston, March 5,!770.WHERE shall we seek for a hero, and where shall we find a story?Our laurels ...
LASHED to the planet, glaring at the sky,An eagle at his heart-the Pagan Christ!Why is it, Mystery? O, dumb Darkness, ...
GOD send us peace, and keep red strife away;But should it come, God send us men and steel!The land is ...
CAN the earth have a voice? Can the clods have speech,To murmur and rail at the demigods?Trample them! Grind their ...
MAJESTIC warder by the Nation's gate,Spike-crowned, flame-armed like Agony or Glory,Holding the tablets of some unknown law,With gesture eloquent and ...
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 ...
GOD'S order, "Light!" when all was void and darkBrought mornless noon, a flame without a spark.A gift unearned, that none ...
I'D rather live in Bohemia than in any other land;For only there are the values true,And the laurels gathered in ...
Died March 20, 1875.I.DEAD, with his harness on him:Rigid and cold and white,Marking the place of the vanguardStill in the ...
ENSIGN EPPS, at the battle of Flanders,Sowed a seed of glory and dutyThat flowers and flames in height and beautyLike ...
O Beauteous Southland! Land of yellow airThat hangeth o've thee slumbering, and doth holdThe moveless foliage of thy valleys fair,And ...
THUNDER our thanks to her-guns, hearts and lips!Cheer from the ranks to her,Shout from the banks to her-Mayflower! Foremost and ...
BLESSED are Pain, the smiter,And Sorrow, the uniter!For one afflicted lies-A symboled sacrifice-And all our rancor dies!No North, no South! ...
Do you love me?" she said, when the skies were blue,And we walked where the stream through the branches glistened;And ...
Nation of sun and sin,Thy flowers and crimes are red,And thy heart is sore withinWhile the glory crowns thy head.Land ...
© 2020 Inspirational Stories