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 ...
"LOVE is the secret of the world," he said;"The cup we drain and still desire to drink.The loadstone hungers for ...
NOR War nor Peace, forever, old and young,But Strength my theme, whose song is yet unsung,The People's Strength, the deep ...
NATHAN BEANS and William Lambert were two wild New England boys,Known from infancy to revel only in forbidden joys.Many a ...
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 ...
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 ...
LASHED to the planet, glaring at the sky,An eagle at his heart-the Pagan Christ!Why is it, Mystery? O, dumb Darkness, ...
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 ...
CAN the earth have a voice? Can the clods have speech,To murmur and rail at the demigods?Trample them! Grind their ...
IN the depths of the silent wood the temple of Friendship stood,Like a dream of snow-white stone, or a vestal ...
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 ...
DEATH OF PRESIDENT GARFIELD.ONCE in a lifetime, we may see the veilTremble and lift, that hides symbolic things;The Spirit's vision, ...
"Come, sing a new song to her here while we listen!"They cry to her sons who sing;And one sings: " ...
On the 5th of January,!878, three of the Irish political prisoners, who had been confined since!866, were set at liberty. ...
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 ...
THERE once was a pirate, greedy and bold,Who ravaged for gain, and saved the spoils;Till his coffers were bursting with ...
WHAT man would be wise, let him drink of the riverThat bears on its bosom the record of timeA message ...
ENSIGN EPPS, at the battle of Flanders,Sowed a seed of glory and dutyThat flowers and flames in height and beautyLike ...
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 ...
Do you love me?" she said, when the skies were blue,And we walked where the stream through the branches glistened;And ...
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