The Betrothed (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
"You must choose between me and your cigar." -- BREACH OF PROMISE CASE, CIRCA 1885. Open the old cigar-box, get ...
"You must choose between me and your cigar." -- BREACH OF PROMISE CASE, CIRCA 1885. Open the old cigar-box, get ...
The Fire at Tranter Sweatley's THEY had long met o' Zundays--her true love and she-- And at junketings, maypoles, and ...
They had long met o' Zundays--her true love and she-- And at junketings, maypoles, and flings; But she bode wi' ...
prudence my love each time you invite me to tea i wonder do i have the appetite for what i ...
It was not until later that I knew, recognized the moment for what it was, my life before it, a ...
Last nite I dreamed of T.S. Eliot welcoming me to the land of dream Sofas couches fog in England Tea ...
Drinking my tea Without sugar- No difference. The sparrow shits upside down --ah! my brain & eggs Mayan head in ...
Feline counselors, therapists Christian cats, ministering to my disquiet helping me study the scripture, between the petting, the purring bringing ...
It was a great day, it was a lousy day to be in the academy She snarled, they barked at ...
Pitch the Tent on the lawn set up the chairs, the signs, the pulpit flagmen at the roadside, cars parked ...
A hurried up party in our bed this morning, on top of the comforter, the blanket toy tea set and ...
My wife shared with me new candles votives to replace those used up Suddenly I was six, maybe eight certainly ...
Seven descended on the table Away from the crowd He sat in the middle, Back to the wall Surveying the ...
You've 'eard 'ow young Albert Ramsbottom, In the Zoo up at Blackpool one year, With a stick and 'orse's 'ead ...
As she laughed I was aware of becoming involved in her laughter and being part of it, until her teeth ...
(The Dry Salvages-presumably les trois sauvages-is a small group of rocks, with a beacon, off the N.E. coast of Cape ...
You were never told, Mother, how old Illyawas drunk That last holiday, for five days and nights He stumbled through ...
Unit, like Death, for Whom? True, like the Tomb, Who tells no secret Told to Him -- The Grave is ...
If anybody's friend be dead It's sharpest of the theme The thinking how they walked alive -- At such and ...
I hadn't had the 'flu in ages, avoided all those awful places fraught of gritty eyes and splitting heads, patrons ...
These painful, cold athritic fingers have to last much longer yet, they're all I have to keep the pages on ...
We shall not ask for the precious pearl of the Duke of Sui, nor for the priceless jade disk of ...
This morning I dreamed I followed Widely spaced bells, ringing in the wind, And climbed through mists to rosy clouds. ...
Suzanne takes you down to her place near the river You can hear the boats go by You can spend ...
"WHAT'S this?" I pondered. "Have I slept? Or can I have been drinking?" But soon a gentler feeling crept Upon ...
You are the bread and the knife, The crystal goblet and the wine... -Jacques Crickillon You are the bread and ...
Across the wet November night The church is bright with candlelight And waiting Evensong. A single bell with plaintive strokes ...
With one consuming roar along the shingle The long wave claws and rakes the pebbles down To where its backwash ...
This is the time of day when we in the Mens's ward Think "one more surge of the pain and ...
Phone for the fish knives, Norman As cook is a little unnerved; You kiddies have crumpled the serviettes And I ...
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