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 ...
For a season there must be pain-- For a little, little space I shall lose the sight of her face, ...
Try as he will, no man breaks wholly loose From his first love, no matter who she be. Oh, was ...
The dark eleventh hour Draws on and sees us sold To every evil power We fought against of old. Rebellion, ...
Thy face is far from this our war, Our call and counter-cry, I shall not find Thee quick and kind, ...
I'm just in love with all these three, The Weald and the Marsh and the Down country. Nor I don't ...
Now Tomlinson gave up the ghost in his house in Berkeley Square, And a Spirit came to his bedside and ...
God gave all men all earth to love, But, since our hearts are small Ordained for each one spot should ...
Once, on a glittering ice-field, ages and ages ago, Ung, a maker of pictures, fashioned an image of snow. Fashioned ...
1902 When the darkened Fifties dip to the North, And frost and the fog divide the air, And the day ...
How shall she know the worship we would do her? The walls are high, and she is very far. How ...
"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 ...
(A. D. 1066) I followed my Duke ere I was a lover, To take from England fief and fee; But ...
1903 (South African War ended, May, 1902) Here, where my fresh-turned furrows run, And the deep soil glistens red, I ...
We've sent our little Cupids all ashore -- They were frightened, they were tired, they were cold: Our sails of ...
Er-Heb beyond the Hills of Ao-Safai Bears witness to the truth, and Ao-Safai Hath told the men of Gorukh. Thence ...
"Let us now praise famous men"-- Men of little showing-- For their work continueth, And their work continueth, Broad and ...
"They" -- Traffics and Discoveries Neither the harps nor the crowns amused, nor the cherubs' dove-winged races-- Holding hands forlornly ...
"The Village That Voted the Earth Was Flat"-- A Diversity of Creatures The Soldier may forget his Sword, The Sailorman ...
Too late, alas! the song To remedy the wrong; -- The rooms are taken from us, swept and garnished for ...
"Below the Mill Dam" --Traffics and Discoveries Thrones, Powers, Dominions, Peoples, Kings, Are changing 'neath our hand. Our fathers also ...
So long as 'neath the Kalka hills The tonga-horn shall ring, So long as down the Solon dip The hard-held ...
There was a strife 'twixt man and maid-- Oh, that was at the birth of time! But what befell 'twixt ...
If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would ...
The Song of Mowgli -- I, Mowgli, am singing. Let the jungle listen to the things I have done. Shere ...
You call yourself a man, For all you used to swear, An' Leave me, as you can, My certain shame ...
Eyes of grey -- a sodden quay, Driving rain and falling tears, As the steamer wears to sea In a ...
1914 He passed in the very battle-smoke Of the war that he had descried. Three hundred mile of cannon spoke ...
The King has called for priest and cup, The King has taken spur and blade To dub True Thomas a ...
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