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, ...
(June 21st, 1887) By the well, where the bullocks go Silent and blind and slow -- By the field where ...
The eldest son bestrides him, And the pretty daughter rides him, And I meet him oft o' mornings on the ...
THE BRICKLAYER: I tell this tale, which is strictly true, Just by way of convincing you How very little, since ...
Will you conquer my heart with your beauty; my sould going out from afar? Shall I fall to your hand ...
I closed and drew for my love's sake That now is false to me, And I slew the Reiver of ...
The God of Fair Beginnings Hath prospered here my hand -- The cargoes of my lading, And the keels of ...
(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 ...
When the Waters were dried an' the Earth did appear, ("It's all one," says the Sapper), The Lord He created ...
1917 (To Lyde of the Music Halls) What boots it on the Gods to call? Since, answered or unheard, We ...
So here's your Empire. No more wine, then? Good. We'll clear the Aides and khitmatgars away. (You'll know that fat ...
"Below the Mill Dam" --Traffics and Discoveries Thrones, Powers, Dominions, Peoples, Kings, Are changing 'neath our hand. Our fathers also ...
I go to concert, party, ball -- What profit is in these? I sit alone against the wall And strive ...
One moment past our bodies cast No shadow on the plain; Now clear and black they stride our track, And ...
1917 They shall not return to us, the resolute, the young, The eager and whole-hearted whom we gave: But the ...
I've paid for your sickest fancies; I've humoured your crackedest whim -- Dick, it's your daddy, dying; you've got to ...
Boanerges Blitzen, servant of the Queen, Is a dismal failure -- is a Might-have-been. In a luckless moment he discovered ...
I've taken my fun where I've found it; I've rouged an' I've ranged in my time; I've 'ad my pickin' ...
O woe is me for the merry life I led beyond the Bar, And a treble woe for my winsome ...
Canadian Jubal sang of the Wrath of God And the curse of thistle and thorn-- But Tubal got him a ...
Now this is the tale of the Council the German Kaiser decreed, To ease the strong of their burden, to ...
Our Fathers in a wondrous age, Ere yet the Earth was small, Ensured to us a heritage, And doubted not ...
To the legion of the lost ones, to the cohort of the damned, To my brethren in their sorrow overseas, ...
Oh gallant was our galley from her caren steering-wheel To her figurehead of silver and her beak of hammered steel; ...
The 'eathen in 'is blindness bows down to wood an' stone; 'E don't obey no orders unless they is 'is ...
(EDWARD VII.) 1910 Who in the Realm to-day lays down dear life for the sake of a land more dear? ...
"What are the bugles blowin' for?" said Files-on-Parade. "To turn you out, to turn you out", the Colour-Sergeant said. "What ...
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