The Last of the Light Brigade (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
1891 There were thirty million English who talked of England's might, There were twenty broken troopers who lacked a bed ...
1891 There were thirty million English who talked of England's might, There were twenty broken troopers who lacked a bed ...
1918 We're not so old in the Army List, But we're not so young at our trade, For we had ...
stylised tulips - this is what the card says and they have that nineteen-twenties' feel of those bright young things ...
Old Deuteronomy's lived a long time; He's a Cat who has lived many lives in succession. He was famous in ...
The news came down on the Castlereagh, and went to the world at large, That twenty thousand travelling sheep, with ...
This is the dam that Keele built. This is the stream that brought the water to fill the dam that ...
With eyes that searched in the dark, Peering along the line, Stood the grim Scotsman, Hector Clark, Driver of "Forty-nine". ...
They held a polo meeting at a little country town, And all the local sportsmen came to win themselves renown. ...
Now ye gallant Sydney boys, who have left your household joys To march across the sea in search of glory, ...
Australia takes her pen in hand To write a line to you, To let you fellows understand How proud we ...
"Only a pound," said the auctioneer, "Only a pound; and I'm standing here Selling this animal, gain or loss -- ...
I thought, in the days of the droving, Of steps I might hope to retrace, To be done with the ...
'Twas on the heights of Alma the battle began. But the Russians turned and fled every man; Because Sir Colin ...
Ye Sons of Great Britain, pray list to me, And I'll tell ye of a great victory. Where the British ...
'Twas in the year of 1746, and in April the 14th day, That Prince Charles Stuart and his army marched ...
'Twas in the year of 1849, and on the 20th of February, Lord Gough met and attacked Shere Sing right ...
Ye Sons of Great Britain! come join with me And King in praise of the gallant British Armie, That behaved ...
Ye sons of Great Britain, come join with me, And sing in praise of Sir Garnet Wolseley; Sound drums and ...
'Twas on a Monday morning, and in the year of 1884, That a fire broke out in Bailie Bradford's store, ...
'Twas in the year of 1898, and on the 8th of June, A mother and six children met with a ...
'Twas after the great Majuba fight: And the next morning, at daylight, Captain Macbean's men were ordered to headquarters camp, ...
'Twas in the year of 1858, and on October the fourteenth day, That a fire broke out in a warehouse, ...
'Twas on the 22nd of March, in the year 1885, That the Arabs rushed like a mountain torrent in full ...
'Twas at the Seige of Matagarda, during the Peninsular War, That a Mrs Reston for courage outshone any man there ...
Alas! England now mourns for her poet that's gone- The late and the good Lord Tennyson. I hope his soul ...
'Twas in the year of 1874, and on New Year's Day, The British Army landed at Elmina without dismay, And ...
Ye sons of Mars, come join with me, And sing in praise of Sir Herbert Stewart's little army, That made ...
Of Man's first disobedience, and the fruit Of that forbidden tree whose mortal taste Brought death into the World, and ...
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