The Naulahka (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
There was a strife 'twixt man and maid-- Oh, that was at the birth of time! But what befell 'twixt ...
There was a strife 'twixt man and maid-- Oh, that was at the birth of time! But what befell 'twixt ...
Young Ben he was a nice young man, A carpenter by trade; And he fell in love with Sally Brown, ...
O my chief good, How shall I measure out thy blood? How shall I count what thee befell, And each ...
I Jesús, Estrella, Esperanza, Mercy: Sails flashing to the wind like weapons, sharks following the moans the fever and the ...
The Blue Horizon wuz a mine us fellers all thought well uv, And there befell the episode I now perpose ...
Whenas ye plaisaunt Aperille shoures have washed and purged awaye Ye poysons and ye rheums of earth to make a ...
TO charms and philters, secret spells and prayers, How many round attribute all their cares! In these howe'er I never ...
IT fell in the ancient periods Which the brooding soul surveys, Or ever the wild Time coin'd itself Into calendar ...
Venus, when her son was lost, Cried him up and down the coast, In hamlets, palaces, and parks, And told ...
I The other night I had a dream, most clear And comforting, complete In every line, a crystal sphere, And ...
Go and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root, Tell me where all past years are, Or ...
My life closed twice before its close -- It yet remains to see If Immortality unveil A third event to ...
WOE is me to tell it thee, Winter winds in Arcady! Scattered is thy flock and fled From the glades ...
THE PROLOGUE. This worthy limitour, this noble Frere, He made always a manner louring cheer* *countenance Upon the Sompnour; but ...
THE PROLOGUE. The Sompnour in his stirrups high he stood, Upon this Friar his hearte was so wood,* *furious That ...
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
THE PROLOGUE. When that the Knight had thus his tale told In all the rout was neither young nor old, ...
PART I 'Tis the middle of night by the castle clock And the owls have awakened the crowing cock; Tu-whit!- ...
the people are very small and shrink, dwarves on the way to netsuke hell bound for a flea circus in ...
Who ran away from his Nurse and was eaten by a Lion There was a Boy whose name was Jim; ...
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
I My hair is gray, but not with years, Nor grew it white In a single night, As men's have ...
I. So, I shall see her in three days And just one night, but nights are short, Then two long ...
I. I said---Then, dearest, since 'tis so, Since now at length my fate I know, Since nothing all my love ...
SOME books are lies frae end to end, And some great lies were never penn'd: Ev'n ministers they hae been ...
THANK God, bless God, all ye who suffer not More grief than ye can weep for. That is well-- That ...
Jack Honest was only eight years of age when his father died, And by the death of his father, Mrs ...
Richard Pigott, the forger, was a very bad man, And to gainsay it there's nobody can, Because for fifty years ...
At last we parley: we so strangely dumb In such a close communion! It befell About the sounding of the ...
Through thick Arcadian woods a hunter went, Following the beasts upon a fresh spring day; But since his horn-tipped bow ...
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