With Scindia to Delphi (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
More than a hundred years ago, in a great battle fought near Delhi, an Indian Prince rode fifty miles after ...
More than a hundred years ago, in a great battle fought near Delhi, an Indian Prince rode fifty miles after ...
When the 'arf-made recruity goes out to the East 'E acts like a babe an' 'e drinks like a beast, ...
"Where have you been this while away, Johnnie, Johnnie?" 'Long with the rest on a picnic lay, Johnnie, my Johnnie, ...
'Ave you 'eard o' the Widow at Windsor With a hairy gold crown on 'er 'ead? She 'as ships on ...
Take up the White man's burden -- Send forth the best ye breed -- Go bind your sons to exile ...
(June 21st, 1887) By the well, where the bullocks go Silent and blind and slow -- By the field where ...
Try as he will, no man breaks wholly loose From his first love, no matter who she be. Oh, was ...
Oh, glorious are the guarded heights Where guardian souls abide-- Self-exiled from our gross delights-- Above, beyond, outside: An ampler ...
June No hope, no change! The clouds have shut us in, And through the cloud the sullen Sun strikes down ...
To the City of Bombay The Cities are full of pride, Challenging each to each -- This from her mountain-side, ...
Oh ye who hold the written clue To all save all unwritten things, And, half a league behind, pursue The ...
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How shall she know the worship we would do her? The walls are high, and she is very far. How ...
"The Treasure and the Low"--Puck of Pook's Hills. Where first by Eden Tree The Four Great Rivers ran, To each ...
As I was spittin' into the Ditch aboard o' the Crocodile, I seed a man on a man-o'-war got up ...
"Soldier, soldier come from the wars, Why don't you march with my true love?" "We're fresh from off the ship ...
BOMBAY Royal and Dower-royal, I the Queen Fronting thy richest sea with richer hands -- A thousand mills roar through ...
My name is O'Kelly, I've heard the Revelly From Birr to Bareilly, from Leeds to Lahore, Hong-Kong and Peshawur, Lucknow ...
(A. D. 1066) I followed my Duke ere I was a lover, To take from England fief and fee; But ...
This 'appened in a battle to a batt'ry of the corps Which is first among the women an' amazin' first ...
We were taken from the ore-bed and the mine, We were melted in the furnace and the pit-- We were ...
1902 Who hath desired the Sea? -- the sight of salt wind-hounded -- The heave and the halt and the ...
"Let us now praise famous men"-- Men of little showing-- For their work continueth, And their work continueth, Broad and ...
1903 After Boer War Duly with knees that feign to quake-- Bent head and shaded brow,-- Yet once again, for ...
God of our fathers, known of old -- Lord of our far-flung battle line -- Beneath whose awful hand we ...
From the wheel and the drift of Things Deliver us, Good Lord, And we will face the wrath of Kings, ...
Your jar of Virginny Will cost you a guinea, Which you reckon too much by five shillings or ten; But ...
Ay, lay him 'neath the Simla pine -- A fortnight fully to be missed, Behold, we lose our fourth at ...
When I was a King and a Mason -- a Master proven and skilled -- I cleared me ground for ...
The Word came down to Dives in Torment where he lay: "Our World is full of wickedness, My Children maim ...
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