The Loving Cup Of The Papyrus (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
WISE men use days as husbandmen use bees,And steal rich drops from every pregnant hour;Others, like wasps on blossomed apple-trees,Find ...
WISE men use days as husbandmen use bees,And steal rich drops from every pregnant hour;Others, like wasps on blossomed apple-trees,Find ...
Who comes to England not to learn The love for her his fathers bore, Breathing her air, can still return ...
He lived beyond men, and so stoodAdmitted to the brotherhoodOf beauty:—dreams, with which he trodCompanioned like some sylvan god.And oft ...
ADDRESS TO THE DEEP.WONDROUS, fearful restless Sea,What have I to do with thee?Thou so strong, and I so weak,Ev'n when ...
Cradled in ice, and swathed in snows, And shining like a Christmas rose,Wreathed round with white chrysanthemums; Heaven in his innocent, brave ...
World! what a wonder is this, Grandly and simply sublime,--All the Atlantic abyss Leapt in a nothing of time!Even the steeds of ...
South Pokus is religious,--that's the honest, livin' truth;South Pokus folks are pious,--man and woman, maid and youth;And they listen every ...
Once the nation's chief was honored by the company of one,Who to lift a fallen people had a work of ...
THE HAVEN GAINED.Inscribed to Captain C. Biden, Commander of the ship Victory.And we are parting, glorious Sea! And thou art anchored, ...
I.Man's inhumanity to Man! Oh hideous tale to tell,—What cheek unblanch'd can calmly scan Those characters of hell?What pen, what poet, dares ...
Showers of shrapnel, scream of deadly shells;And broken lie the belfry's prayerful bellsAmid the silent, ruined cloisters, whereLonely, mute on ...
Strike hands, young men!We know not whenDeath or disaster comes,Mightier than battle-drumsTo summon us away.Death bids us say farewellTo all ...
That love of letters which is as the light Of deathless verse, intense, ineffable,Hath made this scholar's nature like the white, Pure ...
1775.No Berserk thirst of blood had they,No battle-joy was theirs, who setAgainst the alien bayonetTheir homespun breasts in that old ...
Here lived the soul enchantedBy melody of song;Here dwelt the spirit hauntedBy a demoniac throng;Here sang the lips elated;Here grief ...
Fall the shadows on the gullies, fades the purple from the mountain;And the day that's passing outwards down the stairways ...
Teacher sublime, great, grand and free!My spirit loves and honours thee,Who taught that all religion ran,In love to God, and ...
TRUE Poets conquer Glory-do not woo It; do not beg their way to Fame;Nor at her skirts in private bend and ...
Lightly blown, and soon to break Like a bubble on the stream,Yet once more, for wonder's sake, Will I woo thee, brilliant ...
I do not know why I was born into this world,I do not ask why I shall die.When I was ...
In trance and dream of old, God's prophet sawThe casting down of thrones. Thou, watching loneThe hot Sardinian coast-line, hazy-hilled,Where, ...
Dream of splendour, bright and gay, Disenchanted all too soon,Dimly fading fast away Like a half-remember'd tune,—Lo! my spirit's heart is sad For ...
INow fervent be our festal lay,Our hearts with joy are lighted,While all the world beholds to-dayOur Continent united :And England's ...
Woe worth the hour when it is crime To plead the poor dumb bondman's cause,When all that makes the heart sublime,The ...
THEY pass, with heavy eyes and hair,Before the Christ upon the Cross,The Nations, stricken with their loss,And lifting faces of ...
TILL the mist passes, and ye can descryWhy hearts for ages loved the love-shed bloodOf a pure Christ, and praised ...
Morning, lighting all the prairies, Once of old came, bright as now,To the twin cliffs, sloping wooded From the vast plain's even ...
Between the death of day and birth of night,By War's red light,I met with one in trailing sorrows clad,Whose features ...
O dear my Country, beautiful and dear,Love cloth not darken sight.God looketh through Love's eyes, whose vision clearBeholds more flaws ...
Musing by a mossy fountain, In the blossom month of May,Saw I coming down a mountain An old man whose locks were ...
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