Things and the Man (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Oh ye who hold the written clue To all save all unwritten things, And, half a league behind, pursue The ...
Oh ye who hold the written clue To all save all unwritten things, And, half a league behind, pursue The ...
The banked oars fell an hundred strong, And backed and threshed and ground, But bitter was the rowers' song As ...
She dropped the bar, she shot the bolt, she fed the fire anew For she heard a whimper under the ...
1896 Mine was the woman to me, darkling I found her: Haling her dumb from the camp, held her and ...
The strength of twice three thousand horse That seeks the single goal; The line that holds the rending course, The ...
The wrecks dissolve above us; their dust drops down from afar -- Down to the dark, to the utter dark, ...
Help for a patriot distressed, a spotless spirit hurt, Help for an honourable clan sore trampled in the dirt! From ...
1903 Before a midnight breaks in storm, Or herded sea in wrath, Ye know what wavering gusts inform The greater ...
1896 They christened my brother of old-- And a saintly name he bears-- They gave him his place to hold ...
There are who lord it o'er their fellow-men With most prevailing tinsel: who unpen Their baaing vanities, to browse away ...
He lies on his back, the idling smith, A lazy, dreaming fellow is he; The sky is blue, or the ...
Runs falls rises stumbles on from darkness into darkness and the darkness thicketed with shapes of terror and the hunters ...
Nocturnal marauders in my yard Villains of the woods, with masks to boot Out in my land looking for food ...
OFT have I seen in wedlock with surprise, That most forgot from which true bliss would rise When marriage for ...
TO charms and philters, secret spells and prayers, How many round attribute all their cares! In these howe'er I never ...
IN life oft ills from self-imprudence spring; As proof, Candaules' story we will bring; In folly's scenes the king was ...
APENECK SWEENEY spreads his knees Letting his arms hang down to laugh, The zebra stripes along his jaw Swelling to ...
We miss a Kinsman more When warranted to see Than when withheld of Oceans From possibility A Furlong than a ...
Who never lost, are unprepared A Coronet to find! Who never thirsted Flagons, and Cooling Tamarind! Who never climbed the ...
Exultation is the going Of an inland soul to sea, Past the houses -- past the headlands -- Into deep ...
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
(Judges, vi.25) Jesus! whose blood so freely stream'd To satisfy the law's demand; By Thee from guilt and wrath redeem'd, ...
I have experienc'd The worst, the World can wreak on me--the worst That can make Life indifferent, yet disturb With ...
This is a day of happiness, sweet peace, And heavenly sunshine; upon which conven'd In full assembly fair, once more ...
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
Brothers in blood! They who this wrong began To wreck our commonwealth, will rue the day When first they challenged ...
What is she writing? Watch her now, How fast her fingers move ! How eagerly her youthful brow Is bent ...
'Twas after dread Pultowa's day, When fortune left the royal Swede - Around a slaughtered army lay, No more to ...
And the first grey of morning fill'd the east, And the fog rose out of the Oxus stream. But all ...
THE SOLEMN League and Covenant Now brings a smile, now brings a tear; But sacred Freedom, too, was theirs: If ...
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