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 dust…

    Go, words of mine! and if you live     Only for one brief, little day;    If peace, or joy, or calm you give     To any soul; or…

     Over the silent sea of sleep,        Far away! far away!     Over a strange and starlit deep        Where the beautiful shadows sway;        Dim in the dark,        Glideth a bark,    Where…

    The moan of a wintry soul     Melted into a summer song,    And the words, like the wavelet’s roll,     Moved murmuringly along.     And the song flowed far…

    Waileth a woman, “O my God!”    A breaking heart in a broken breath,    A hopeless cry o’er her heart-hope’s death!    Can words catch the chords of the winds…

    I love my mother, the wildwood,     I sleep upon her breast;    A day or two of childhood,     And then I sink to rest.     I had once…

    Out of the shadows of sadness,    Into the sunshine of gladness,     Into the light of the blest;    Out of a land very dreary,    Out of a world very…

    Ah! days so dark with death’s eclipse!        Woe are we! woe are we!     And the nights are ages long!    From breaking hearts, thro’ pallid lips        O my God!…

    Do we weep for the heroes who died for us,    Who living were true and tried for us,    And dying sleep side by side for us;        The Martyr-band        That…

    Better than grandeur, better than gold,    Than rank and titles a thousand fold,    Is a healthy body and a mind at ease,    And simple pleasures that always please    A…