The City Streets (John Boyle O Reilly Poems)
A CITY of Palaces! Yes, that's true: a city of palaces built for trade;Look down this street-what a splendid view ...
A CITY of Palaces! Yes, that's true: a city of palaces built for trade;Look down this street-what a splendid view ...
And when they drew near to the burial ground Anhelli heard the hymn of the tombs,complaining, as it were a ...
Addressed to Francis Greenleaf Allison of Burlington, New Jersey.You scarcely need my tardy thanks,Who, self-rewarded, nurse and tend--A green leaf ...
Rivermouth Rocks are fair to see,By dawn or sunset shone across,When the ebb of the sea has left them free,To ...
THE Lombard princes oft pervade my mind;The present tale Boccace relates you'll find;Agiluf was the noble monarch's name;Teudelingua he married, ...
America, it is to thee,Thou boasted land of liberty, —It is to thee I raise my song,Thou land of blood, ...
Forth from Calais, at dawn of night, when sunset summer on autumn shone,Fared the steamer alert and loud through seas ...
The castle walls are full of eyes,And not a mouse may creep unseen.All the window slits are spies;And the towers ...
A score of years had come and goneSince the Pilgrims landed on Plymouth stone,When Captain Underhill, bearing scarsFrom Indian ambush ...
IN the far time of Earth's sweet maiden beauty,When Morning hung with rapture on her breast;When every sentient life paid ...
A writer wrote of the hearts of men, and he followed their tracks afar;For his was a spirit that forced ...
The eternal all--sire from his throne, our isleRegarding; these Imperial shores, the whileEarth's orb rolls round, shewn, eminent in his ...
How sweet the sacred legend--if unblamedIn my slight verse such holy things are named--Of Mary's secret hours of hidden joy,Silent, ...
Oh,How I long to go,On a seaward-blowing breeze,To the garden of the seas—To brave King Arthur's land,To that fair island ...
FROM the house of desolation,From the doors of lamentation,I went forth into the midnight and the vistas of the moon;Where ...
Philosophy the great and only heirOf all that human knowledge which has binUnforfeited by man's rebellious sin,Though full of years ...
While Pow'r triumphant bears unrival'd Sway,Propt by the Aid of all-prevailing Gold;While bold Corruption blasts the Face of Day,And Men, ...
The former, Sith we all confesse,Our selues still sinners for to be,And that (as Scripture doth expresse)We ought to die ...
What ails ye, bonnie Mary Lee? What gars ye greet an' pine?Your e'e is dim, your cheek is wan— What ails ye, ...
Stern Winter! stormy, sullen, cold, and dun,Thou joyless outcast from the genial sun,Thou gloomiest offspring of the rolling year,With front ...
Two years have elapsed since the verse of S. W. Met your bright eyes like a fanciful gem;With that kind of ...
LINES, Inscribed to an amiable, and affectionate Mother, upon the Death of her eldest Son, who fell a victim to ...
I.'Wilt not lay thee down in quiet slumber?Weary dost thou seem, and ill at rest;Sleep will bring thee dreams in ...
The churches twelve of WallingfordA stately sight they were,When gleaming shields were hangingFrom every column fair;For a mile around the ...
Down the broad _Ha-Ha Wak-pa_ the band took their way to the Games at _Keoza_While the swift-footed hunters by land ran the ...
DEEP in a solitary glen,Far from the cheerful haunts of men;By poverty opprest, and taughtThe lonely task of silent thought,A ...
What of the years of Englishmen? What have they brought of growth and graceSince mud-built London by its fen Became the Briton's ...
How is the boy this morning? Why do you shake your head?Ah! I can see what's happened-there's a screen drawn ...
A FRAGMENT. Now the loud winds with angry pinions sweep The laboring bosom of the stormy deep, The face of day o'erspread by ...
MY dearest child, to me draw near,Unto my precepts lend an ear,And, all thy life, to them attend,If thou wou'dst ...
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