Wilful Missing (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
(Deserters) There is a world outside the one you know, To which for curiousness 'Ell can't compare-- It is the ...
(Deserters) There is a world outside the one you know, To which for curiousness 'Ell can't compare-- It is the ...
As I was spittin' into the Ditch aboard o' the Crocodile, I seed a man on a man-o'-war got up ...
"Soldier, soldier come from the wars, Why don't you march with my true love?" "We're fresh from off the ship ...
1903 (South African War ended, May, 1902) Here, where my fresh-turned furrows run, And the deep soil glistens red, I ...
Away by the lands of the Japanee Where the paper lanterns glow And the crews of all the shipping drink ...
Twelve hundred million men are spread About this Earth, and I and You Wonder, when You and I are dead, ...
A great and glorious thing it is To learn, for seven years or so, The Lord knows what of that ...
You may talk o' gin and beer When you're quartered safe out 'ere, An' you're sent to penny-fights an' Aldershot ...
"Far I hear the bugle blow To call me where I would not go, And the guns begin the song, ...
Images leap with him from branch to branch. His eyes brighten, his head cocks, he pauses under a green bough, ...
Terrifying are the attent sleek thrushes on the lawn, More coiled steel than living - a poised Dark deadly eye, ...
This country nurtured hope decayed, The politician cruises on a 4WD guzzler, The thief. Feeling the base of his belly. ...
There once was a bird that lived up in a tree, And all he could whistle was "Fiddle-dee-dee" - A ...
I go back to the scene where the two men embrace & grapple a handgun at stomach level between them. ...
They sent him back to her. The letter came Saying... And she could have him. And before She could be ...
The battle rent a cobweb diamond-strung And cut a flower beside a ground bird's nest Before it stained a single ...
When Sam Small joined the regiment, 'E were no' but a raw recruit, And they marched 'im away one wint'ry ...
Thousand minstrels woke within me, "Our music's in the hills; "- Gayest pictures rose to win me, Leopard-colored rills. Up!-If ...
In the pleasant time of Pentecost, By the little river Kyll, I followed the angler's winding path Or waded the ...
She's dead; and all which die To their first elements resolve; And we were mutual elements to us, And made ...
You could see the signs which said that possums came at night and fed upon this tree, they left their ...
1.1 Lo now! four other acts upon the stage, 1.2 Childhood, and Youth, the Manly, and Old-age. 1.3 The first: ...
THE HUNCHBACK TROUT The creek was made narrow by little green trees that grew too close together. The creek was ...
SANDBOX MINUS JOHN DILLINGER EQUALS WHAT? Often I return to the cover of Trout Fishing in America. I took the ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
If we sang in the wood (and Death is a German expert) while snows flies, chill, after so frequent knew ...
Nothin very bad happen to me lately. How you explain that? â?"I explain that, Mr Bones, terms o' your bafflin ...
In the cold, cold parlor my mother laid out Arthur beneath the chromographs: Edward, Prince of Wales, with Princess Alexandra, ...
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