The King (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
"Farewell, Romance!" the Cave-men said; "With bone well carved he went away, Flint arms the ignoble arrowhead, And jasper tips ...
"Farewell, Romance!" the Cave-men said; "With bone well carved he went away, Flint arms the ignoble arrowhead, And jasper tips ...
Only a night from old to new! Only a night, and so much wrought! The Old Year's heart all weary ...
SNOW-BOUND in woodland, a mournful word, Dropt now and then from the bill of a bird, Reached me on wind-wafts; ...
OH, gaily sings the bird! and the wattle-boughs are stirred And rustled by the scented breath of Spring; Oh, the ...
Hold hard, Ned! Lift me down once more, and lay me in the shade. Old man, you've had your work ...
in the wares before you spread, Types of all things may be read. 'NEATH the shadow Of these bushes, On ...
Our free will our freedoms a freedom to destroy to tear down not lift up if we are reckless fail ...
The words of the scripture tell many stories, layered truths the nature of man, the character of God the love ...
The true nature of God revealed in the story of the two sons the one who roamed and the one ...
When I saw him, it made me think of him the hat and coat I had seen, the hat I ...
White knuckles on the wheel holding fast to my lane between the wiper strokes and blur of reckless drivers on ...
Grown child, where is your laughter? Do you laugh, smile, cheer in the song of the wind, the leap of ...
`You know Orion always comes up sideways. Throwing a leg up over our fence of mountains, And rising on his ...
"OH, let's go up the hill and scare ourselves, As reckless as the best of them to-night, By setting fire ...
Thine emulous fond flowers are dead, too, And the daft sun-assaulter, he That frightened thee so oft, is fled or ...
I wonder about the trees. Why do we wish to bear Forever the noise of these More than another noise ...
Mr. Ramsbottom went to the races, A thing as he'd ne'er done before, And as luck always follers beginners, Won ...
He'd spent his life trying to control the names people gave him; oh the unfair and the accurate equally hurt. ...
A tale that the poet Rückert told To German children, in days of old; Disguised in a random, rollicking rhyme ...
Yes, it was like you to forget, And cancel in the welcome of your smile My deep arrears of debt, ...
Behind faces and gestures We remain mute And spoken words heavy With what we ignore or keep silent Betray us ...
The First Voice HE trilled a carol fresh and free, He laughed aloud for very glee: There came a breeze ...
Behind faces and gestures We remain mute And spoken words heavy With what we ignore or keep silent Betray us ...
O, Poverty! though from thy haggard eye, Thy cheerless mien, of every charm bereft, Thy brow that Hope's last traces ...
And art thou he, now "fallen on evil days," And changed indeed! Yet what do this sunk cheek, These thinner ...
Lough, vessel, plough the British main, Seek the free ocean's wider plain; Leave English scenes and English skies, Unbind, dissever ...
In the dungeon-crypts, idly did I stray, Reckless of the lives wasting there away; "Draw the ponderous bars! open, Warder ...
High waving heather 'neath stormy blasts bending, Midnight and moonlight and bright shining stars, Darkness and glory rejoicingly blending, Earth ...
I wrung my hands under my dark veil. . . "Why are you pale, what makes you reckless?" -- Because ...
THE SUN had clos'd the winter day, The curless quat their roarin play, And hunger'd maukin taen her way, To ...
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