The Last of the Light Brigade (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
1891 There were thirty million English who talked of England's might, There were twenty broken troopers who lacked a bed ...
1891 There were thirty million English who talked of England's might, There were twenty broken troopers who lacked a bed ...
I ENCHANTER of Erin, whose magic has bound us, Thy wand for one moment we fondly would claim, Entranced while ...
Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see ...
(from a painting by hugo simberg) those who bear the wounded angel are they honoured or destroyed far beyond their ...
Louder than gulls the little children scream Whom fathers haul into the jovial foam; But others fearlessly rush in, breast ...
Everyone who stood who was willing to die who stood in the breach we raise their name on high The ...
They stand on guard once more in harm's way in hostile lands answering the nation's call on point in the ...
History, biography, adventure found in the pages I read how long I wanted to linger in reading the names on ...
WHO knows the world will never feel surprise, When men are duped by artful women's eves; Though death his weapon ...
IN Lombardy's fair land, in days of yore, Once dwelt a prince, of youthful charms, a store; Each FAIR, with ...
Fair Youth! who wish the Wars may cease, We own you better form'd for Peace. Nor Pallas you, nor Mars ...
Daphne's Answer to Sylvia, declaring she should esteem all as Enemies, who should talk to her of LOVE. THEN, to ...
A WIT, transported with Inditing, Unpay'd, unprais'd, yet ever Writing; Who, for all Fights and Fav'rite Friends, Had Poems at ...
It were after the Battle of Crecy- The foe all lay dead on the ground- And King Edward went out ...
Sung at the Completion of the Concord Monument, April 19th, 1836 By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their ...
Old Deuteronomy's lived a long time; He's a Cat who has lived many lives in succession. He was famous in ...
En l'an trentiesme do mon aage Que toutes mes hontes j'ay beues... PIPIT sate upright in her chair Some distance ...
You brave heroic minds, Worthy your country's name, That honour still pursue, Go, and subdue, Whilst loit'ring hinds Lurke here ...
All human things are subject to decay, And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey: This Flecknoe found, who, like Augustus, ...
Not any higher stands the Grave For Heroes than for Men -- Not any nearer for the Child Than numb ...
"Zipless sex" one cynic called this festival of fornication, this celebration of new-found sexual strength and urbane honesty, of sex ...
Obscurest night involv'd the sky, Th' Atlantic billows roar'd, When such a destin'd wretch as I, Wash'd headlong from on ...
Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river You can hear the boats go by You can spend ...
Thou Power! who hast ruled me through Infancy's days, Young offspring of Fancy, 'tis time we should part; Then rise ...
WHAT needs this din about the town o' Lon'on, How this new play an' that new sang is comin? Why ...
AFAR 1 the illustrious Exile roams, Whom kingdoms on this day should hail; An inmate in the casual shed, On ...
I SING of a Whistle, a Whistle of worth, I sing of a Whistle, the pride of the North. Was ...
LET other heroes boast their scars, The marks of sturt and strife: And other poets sing of wars, The plagues ...
Central Park: Water Fight, Flight, and Tears June 1 2001, N.Y. C., U.S.A. (1) From the five boroughs of N.Y.C., ...
Athens, Greece, August 25, 2004 Gold-Medal Gal of Israel By Sharon Esther Lampert (The Sexist Creative Genius in Human History) ...
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