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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
THE STORY OF AN ARCTIC NIP.AY, ay, I'll tell you, shipmates,If you care to hear the tale,How myself and the ...
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 ...
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, ...
IN the old days, while yet the Church was young,And men believed that praise of God was sungIn curbing self ...
HOW did he live, this dead man here,With the temple above his grave?He lived as a great one, from cradle ...
A KING once made a gallery of art,With portraits of dead friends and living graced;And at the end, 'neath curtains ...
IS he well blessed who has no eyes to scanThe woeful things that shadow all our life:The latent brute behind ...
Died March 20, 1875.I.DEAD, with his harness on him:Rigid and cold and white,Marking the place of the vanguardStill in the ...
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 ...
"AND Smith has made money?""O, no; that's a myth:Smith never made moneyBut money made Smith!"_______________A sculptor is Deming-a great man, ...
Only from day to dayThe life of a wise man runs:What matter if seasons far awayHave gloom or have double ...
From, that fair land and drear land in the South,Of which through years I do not cease to think,I brought ...
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