Prometheus-Christ (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
LASHED to the planet, glaring at the sky,An eagle at his heart-the Pagan Christ!Why is it, Mystery? O, dumb Darkness, ...
LASHED to the planet, glaring at the sky,An eagle at his heart-the Pagan Christ!Why is it, Mystery? O, dumb Darkness, ...
A sick man's chamber, though it often boastThe grateful presence of a literal toast,Can hardly claim, amidst its various wealth,The ...
Let us venerate the bonesOf patient Mercy Jones,Who lies underneath these stones.This is her story as once told to meBy ...
WHAT song is best for the soldiers?Take no heed of the words, nor choose yon the style of the story;Let ...
A brother's eye had seen the grief That Duart's lady bore;His boat with sail half-raised flies down The sound by green Lismore.Ahaladah, ...
YOUNG Edward was a noble youth,A finer ne'er was seen;He was his aged gran-dam's pride,And lov'd by all the green.Yet ...
* * * * * In those vast forests dwelt a race of kings, Free as the eagle when he spreads his wings-- His wings which never ...
ONCE on a time, as hist'ry's page relates,A lord, possessed of many large estates,Was angry with a poor and humble ...
How I succeed, you kindly ask;Yet set me on a grievous Task,When you oblige me to rehearse,The Censures past upon ...
Forgive me, dressing gown! My friend in idle bliss,Comrade of leisure, a witness to my secret thoughts!With you I knew ...
O God of mercy, soft-ey'd Pity's Sire!For Jesus sake, my num'rous faults pass o'er,Which more Arithmetic, I own, requireTo count, ...
A Legend of Luggie Burn (Langloan)Wow, Maggie, hae ye seen a ghaist? Your maist as white as ane yoursel,'Wi' een like ...
...Thy Sabbaths I profanely spentIn riot and vain merriment,Or, which is worse, in drunkenness,And ev'ry blameable excess.When other folks, of ...
Ye sons of freemen wake to sadness, Hark! Hark, what myriads bid you rise;Three millions of our race in madness Break out ...
Nick Dapper, and the great De---l------ne,Against whom Nick so oft has drawnHis hostile Pen, one Night last WeekMet at the ...
I.THE suns of eighteen centuries have shoneSince the Redeemer walked with man, and madeThe fisher's boat, the cavern's floor of ...
You were not over-patient with me, dear; This want of patience one must rightly rate:You are so young! Youth ever was ...
Dark the halls, and cold the feast,Gone the bridemaids, gone the priest.All is over, all is done,Twain of yesterday are ...
GOD-kindled soul, brave general of the hostMade strong by Christ! New Judas Maccabeus,Chief conqueror, giving courage for the fight,Victorious alike ...
I CANNOT hold, for though to write were rude,Yet to be silent were Ingratitude,And Folly too; for if PosterityShould never ...
THOU, that dost guard thy people, and protect!Thou castle of defence, the weak to keep!For Jesu's sake, do not my ...
When I do this begin to apprehend,My heart, my soul, and mind, begins to bendTo God-ward, and sincerely for to ...
I reached the cottage. I knew it from the cardHe had given me--the low door heavily barred,Steep roof, and two ...
Speak and tell us, our Ximena, looking northward far away,O'er the camp of the invaders, o'er the Mexican array,Who is ...
The road had steepened and the sun sharpened on the highridges; the stream probably was dry,Certainly not to be come ...
MY cousin, I have never seen thee--yetFrom childhood's early years my dearest thoughtsHave been so full of thee, I almost ...
Wizard. - Lochiel.Wizard.- Lochiel! Lochiel, beware of the dayWhen the Lowlands shall meet thee in battle array!For a field of ...
GIVE o'er the strife! The poet criesThe maiden mercy, in whose eyesHe sees the light of paradise.Beyond the coppice, at ...
I The Sphinx The spires of sand spring up at every gust That bids them dance and scatter and lays them low: He sits ...
YES , 'tis a year since last that plaintive cry,"Pity the prisoners," touch'd my wand'ring ear:And now again their hat ...
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