John Boyle O'Reilly
John Boyle O'Reilly
John Boyle O'Reillywas an Irish-born poet, journalist and fiction writer. As a youth in Ireland, he was a member of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, or Fenians, for which he was transported to Western Australia. After escaping to the United States, he became a prominent spokesperson for the Irish community and culture, through his editorship of the Boston newspaper The Pilot, his prolific writing, and his lecture tours...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth28 June 1844
CountryIreland
The Greeks were the first boxers. Pugilism appears to have been one of the earliest distinctions in play and exercise that appeared between the Hellenes and their Asiatic fathers. The unarmed personal encounter was indicative of a sturdier manhood.
Loyalty is the greatest quality of the human heart.
I'd rather live in Bohemia than in any other land.
For the love that is purest and sweetest Has a kiss of desire on the lips.
For all time to come, the freedom and purity of the press are the test of national virtue and independence. No writer for the press, however humble, is free from the burden of keeping his purpose high and his integrity white.
They who see the Flying Dutchman never, never reach the shore.
The right word fitly spoken is a precious rarity.
The wealth of mankind is the wisdom they leave.
A dreamer lives forever, And a toiler dies in a day.
And we who have toiled for freedom's law, have we sought for freedom's soul? Have we learned at last that human right is not a part but the whole?
Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you, nor judge of a road till it draw to the end.
Who heeds not experience, trust him not.
Ireland is a fruitful mother of genius, but a barren nurse.
The red rose whispers of passion, And the white rose breathes of love; O, the red rose is a falcon, And the white rose is a dove.