The Young British Soldier (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
When the 'arf-made recruity goes out to the East 'E acts like a babe an' 'e drinks like a beast, ...
When the 'arf-made recruity goes out to the East 'E acts like a babe an' 'e drinks like a beast, ...
A fool there was and he mad his prayer (Even as you and I!) To a rag and a bone ...
Yearly, with tent and rifle, our careless white men go By the Pass called Muttianee, to shoot in the vale ...
1903 Lived a woman wonderful, (May the Lord amend her!) Neither simple, kind, nor true, But her Pagan beauty drew ...
How shall she know the worship we would do her? The walls are high, and she is very far. How ...
1918Being the Words of the Tune Hummed at Her Lathe by Mrs. L. Embsay, Widow The fans and the beltings ...
This 'appened in a battle to a batt'ry of the corps Which is first among the women an' amazin' first ...
'E was warned agin' 'er -- That's what made 'im look; She was warned agin' 'im -- That is why ...
Er-Heb beyond the Hills of Ao-Safai Bears witness to the truth, and Ao-Safai Hath told the men of Gorukh. Thence ...
We're marchin' on relief over Injia's sunny plains, A little front o' Christmas-time an' just be'ind the Rains; Ho! get ...
So long as 'neath the Kalka hills The tonga-horn shall ring, So long as down the Solon dip The hard-held ...
We've drunk to the Queen -- God bless her! -- We've drunk to our mothers' land; We've drunk to our ...
You call yourself a man, For all you used to swear, An' Leave me, as you can, My certain shame ...
I've paid for your sickest fancies; I've humoured your crackedest whim -- Dick, it's your daddy, dying; you've got to ...
Jane Austen Beecher Stowe de Rouse Was good beyond all earthly need; But, on the other hand, her spouse Was ...
If you've ever stole a pheasant-egg be'ind the keeper's back, If you've ever snigged the washin' from the line, If ...
Now this is the tale of the Council the German Kaiser decreed, To ease the strong of their burden, to ...
(Non-commissioned Officers in Charge of Prisoners) When by the labor of my 'ands I've 'elped to pack a transport tight ...
What is a woman that you forsake her, And the hearth-fire and the home-acre, To go with the old grey ...
Oh gallant was our galley from her caren steering-wheel To her figurehead of silver and her beak of hammered steel; ...
The Injian Ocean sets an' smiles So sof', so bright, so bloomin' blue; There aren't a wave for miles an' ...
"THE WOMAN IN HIS LIFE" I have done mostly what most men do, And pushed it out of my mind; ...
There was no one like 'im, 'Orse or Foot, Nor any o' the Guns I knew; An' because it was ...
1896 Mine was the woman to me, darkling I found her: Haling her dumb from the camp, held her and ...
1911 When the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride, He shouts to scare the monster, who will often ...
The 'eathen in 'is blindness bows down to wood an' stone; 'E don't obey no orders unless they is 'is ...
"Behold there is a woman that hath a familiar spirit at En-dor." I Samuel, xxviii. 7. The road to En-dor ...
(Spring begins in southern England on the 14th April, on which date the Old Woman lets the Cuckoo out of ...
Help for a patriot distressed, a spotless spirit hurt, Help for an honourable clan sore trampled in the dirt! From ...
We've got the cholerer in camp -- it's worse than forty fights; We're dyin' in the wilderness the same as ...
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