The Statues In The Block (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
"LOVE is the secret of the world," he said;"The cup we drain and still desire to drink.The loadstone hungers for ...
"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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
IN the far time of Earth's sweet maiden beauty,When Morning hung with rapture on her breast;When every sentient life paid ...
IT is sweet to rejoice for a day,-For a day that is reached at last!It is well for wanderers in ...
I.TEAR down the crape from the column! Let the shaft stand white and fair!Be silent the wailing music-there is no ...
IN the depths of the silent wood the temple of Friendship stood,Like a dream of snow-white stone, or a vestal ...
"HE is false to the heart!" she said, stern-lipped; "he is all untruth;He promises fair as a tree in blossom, ...
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 ...
WHAT shall we mourn? For the prostrate tree that sheltered the young green wood?For the fallen cliff that fronted the ...
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 ...
HE was old and alone, and he sat on a stone to rest for awhile from the road:His beard was ...
"SHE is dead!" they say; "she is robed for the grave; O there are lilies upon her breast;Her mother has ...
Nor gold, nor silver are the words set here,Nor rich-wrought chasing on design of art;But rugged relics of an unknown ...
Chicago, October 9,1871.GAUNT in the midst of the prairie,She who was once so fair;Charred and rent are her garments,Heavy and ...
NOW, for the faith that is in ye,Polander, Sclav, and Kelt!Prove to the world what the lips have hurledThe hearts ...
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 ...
IN the evergreen shade of an Austral wood,Where the long branches laced above,Through which all day it seemedThe sweet sunbeams ...
THE day and night are symbols of creation,And each has part in all that God has made;There is no ill ...
THOSE we love truly never die,Though year by year the sad memorial wreath,A ring and flowers, types of life and ...
THE world was made when a man was born;He must taste for himself the forbidden springs,He can never take warning ...
The world was made when a man was born,He must taste for himself the forbidden springs;He can never take warning ...
THERE is no joy all set apart from pain,The opening bud has loss as well as gain.The brighest dewdrop gems ...
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