The Mother-Lodge (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
There was Rundle, Station Master, An' Beazeley of the Rail, An' 'Ackman, Commissariat, An' Donkin' o' the Jail; An' Blake, ...
There was Rundle, Station Master, An' Beazeley of the Rail, An' 'Ackman, Commissariat, An' Donkin' o' the Jail; An' Blake, ...
The men that fought at Minden, they was rookies in their time -- So was them that fought at Waterloo! ...
I've paid for your sickest fancies; I've humoured your crackedest whim -- Dick, it's your daddy, dying; you've got to ...
Imprimis he was "broke." Thereafter left His Regiment and, later, took to drink; Then, having lost the balance of his ...
Cain and Abel were brothers born. (Koop-la! Come along, cows!) One raised cattle and one raised corn. (Koop-la! Come along! ...
Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently ...
When spring-time flushes the desert grass, Our kafilas wind through the Khyber Pass. Lean are the camels but fat the ...
When the sun shouts and people abound One thinks there were the ages of stone and the age of bronze ...
Though clock, To tell how night draws hence, I've none, A cock I have to sing how day draws on: ...
All year the flax-dam festered in the heart Of the townland; green and heavy headed Flax had rotted there, weighted ...
[This song was intended to be introduced in a dramatic poem entitled Mahomet, the plan of which was not carried ...
[To the memory of an excellent and beautiful girl of 17, belonging to the village of Brienen, who perished on ...
Almost clear, translucent taffy pulled, frozen in space hanging from the dam between the dormers, above the gutter edge falling, ...
Pandora's Box Burst open a year ago today Because you gave us an assignment To read a poem. I took ...
An early morning drive over the Merrimack dark water from a lot of rain a lone cormorant down below the ...
Ed was a man that played for keeps, 'nd when he tuk the notion, You cudn't stop him any more'n ...
Who does not wish, ever to judge aright, And, in the Course of Life's Affairs, To have a quick, and ...
Blood has been harder to dam back than water. Just when we think we have it impounded safe Behind new ...
We send the Wave to find the Wave -- An Errand so divine, The Messenger enamored too, Forgetting to return, ...
We, the living, buried deep in selfish grief strive to comprehend the passing of your hour, minds are numbed, aghast ...
For more than a billion years we've been nearly out of water; sincerely, a need repeatedly exposed in calamitous reports ...
It seldom snowed in Camp they said, on the mountains, yes, and in the Styx, aka zone six. That's where ...
Baby waits alone in sandy shallows lying, - wretchedly crying Dam marooned at sea aware her calf is dying precious ...
I The cloud my bed is tinged with blood and foam. The vault yet blazes with the sun Writhing above ...
I The cloud my bed is tinged with blood and foam. The vault yet blazes with the sun Writhing above ...
I had eight birds hatched in one nest, Four cocks there were, and hens the rest. I nursed them up ...
In law an infant, and in years a boy, In mind a slave to every vicious joy; From every sense ...
"Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thyself." (David, Psalms 50.21) ['Will sprawl, now that the heat ...
STOP, passenger! my story's brief, And truth I shall relate, man; I tell nae common tale o' grief, For Matthew ...
And the first grey of morning fill'd the east, And the fog rose out of the Oxus stream. But all ...
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