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James Jeffrey Roche

I lived from 1847-1908. I was from Ireland, and am in the Americas category.

Born 31 May, 1847, Mountmellick, in Queen's County, Ireland. Died 3 April, 1908, in Berne, Switzerland). Roche was an Irish-American poet, journalist and diplomat.

Roche was taken to the United States as a young child, and grew up in Prince Edward Island. In 1883 he joined the staff of the Boston Pilot as an assistant editor under John Boyle O'Reilly, and later became editor of the newspaper. At the end of his life he was the American Consul in Switzerland.

Publications:

Songs and Satires, Boston & Cambridge (USA), 1887
Ballads of Blue Water, Boston, 1895
The Vase and other Bric-a-Brac, 1900
Her Majesty the King: A Romance of the Harem, 1901

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  • The Fight Of The General Armstrong
    Tell the story to your sons
    Of the gallant days of yore
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    This is the tale that was told- to me,
    By a battered and shattered son of the sea-
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  • The V-A-S-E
    From the madding crowd they stand apart,
    The maidens four and the Work of Art;
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  • The Men Of The Alamo
    To Houston at Gonzales town, ride, Ranger, for your life,
    I nor stop to say good-by to-day to home or child or wife;
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  • The Constitution's Last Fight
    A Yankee ship and a Yankee crew—
    Constitution, where ye bound for?
    91 lines, 1 comment
  • Gettysburg
    There was no union in the land,
    Though wise men labored long
    63 lines
  • Sir Hugo's Choice
    It is better to die, since death comes surely,
    In the full noontide of an honored name,
    56 lines
  • Don't
    Your eyes were made for laughter:
    Sorrow befits them not;
    16 lines, 1 comment
  • My Comrade
    THE LOVE of man and woman is as fire,
    To warm, to light, but surely to consume
    14 lines
  • Albemarle Cushing
    Joy in rebel Plymouth town, in the spring of ‘sixty-four,
    When the Albemarle down on the Yankee frigates bore,
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