In Memory of My Brother Young as the youngest who donned the Gray, True as the truest that wore it, Brave as the bravest he marched away, (Hot tears o...
A Laugh —— and A Moan The brook that down the valley So musically drips, Flowed never half so brightly As the light laugh from her lips. H...
Erin's Flag Unroll Erin's flag! fling its folds to the breeze! Let it float o'er the land, let it flash o'er the seas! Lift it out of ...
The Old Year and the New How swift they go, Life's many years, With their winds of woe And their storms of tears, And their darkest of nights whos...
Name. But where are the olden pictures? And where are the olden dreams? Has a change come over my vision? Or over the fire's bright gleams? Not ov...
Nocturne I sit to-night by the firelight, And I look at the glowing flame, And I see in the bright red flashes A Heart, a Face, and a Name. How often ...
Rhyme One idle day —— A mile or so of sunlit waves off shore —— In a breezeless bay, We listless lay —— Our boat a...
A Memory One bright memory shines like a star In the sky of my spirit forever; And over my pathway it flashes afar A radiance that perishes never. One...
Lines Go down where the wavelets are kissing the shore, And ask of them why do they sigh? The poets have asked them a thousand times o'er, But the...
Reverie Only a few more years! Weary years! Only a few more tears! Bitter tears! And then —— and then —— like other men, I cea...