The Songs of the Lathes (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
1918Being the Words of the Tune Hummed at Her Lathe by Mrs. L. Embsay, Widow The fans and the beltings ...
1918Being the Words of the Tune Hummed at Her Lathe by Mrs. L. Embsay, Widow The fans and the beltings ...
Ere Mor the Peacock flutters, ere the Monkey People cry, Ere Chil the Kite swoops down a furlong sheer, Through ...
Army Reform-.After Boer war "The Army of a Dream"-Traffics and Discoveries. Know this, my brethren, Heaven is clear And all ...
Shove off from the wharf-edge! Steady! Watch for a smooth! Give way! If she feels the lop already She'll stand ...
I was Lord of Cities very sumptuously builded. Seven roaring Cities paid me tribute from far. Ivory their outposts were--the ...
One from the ends of the earth -- gifts at an open door -- Treason has much, but we, Mother, ...
The God of Fair Beginnings Hath prospered here my hand -- The cargoes of my lading, And the keels of ...
Fair is our lot -- O goodly is our heritage! (Humble ye, my people, and be fearful in your mirth!) ...
"The Treasure and the Low"--Puck of Pook's Hills. Where first by Eden Tree The Four Great Rivers ran, To each ...
Oh, light was the world that he weighed in his hands! Oh, heavy the tale of his fiefs and his ...
Hear now the Song of the Dead -- in the North by the torn berg-edges -- They that look still ...
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 ...
The first time that Peter denied his Lord He shrank from the cudgel, the scourge and the cord, But followed ...
Be well assured that on our side The abiding oceans fight, Though headlong wind and heaping tide Make us their ...
BOMBAY Royal and Dower-royal, I the Queen Fronting thy richest sea with richer hands -- A thousand mills roar through ...
1918 SEVEN Watchmen sitting in a tower, Watching what had come upon mankind, Showed the Man the Glory and the ...
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 ...
If you wake at midnight, and hear a horse's feet, Don't go drawing back the blind, or looking in the ...
This 'appened in a battle to a batt'ry of the corps Which is first among the women an' amazin' first ...
Speakin' in general, I'ave tried 'em all The 'appy roads that take you o'er the world. Speakin' in general, I'ave ...
1903 (South African War ended, May, 1902) Here, where my fresh-turned furrows run, And the deep soil glistens red, I ...
We were taken from the ore-bed and the mine, We were melted in the furnace and the pit-- We were ...
'E was warned agin' 'er -- That's what made 'im look; She was warned agin' 'im -- That is why ...
Three things make earth unquiet And four she cannot brook The godly Agur counted them And put them in a ...
Smokin' my pipe on the mountings, sniffin' the mornin' cool, I walks in my old brown gaiters along o' my ...
1902 Who hath desired the Sea? -- the sight of salt wind-hounded -- The heave and the halt and the ...
Oh! hush thee, my baby, the night is behind us And black are the waters that sparkled so green. The ...
There dwells a wife by the Northern Gate, And a wealthy wife is she; She breeds a breed o' rovin' ...
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