Recessional (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
God of our fathers, known of old -- Lord of our far-flung battle line -- Beneath whose awful hand we ...
God of our fathers, known of old -- Lord of our far-flung battle line -- Beneath whose awful hand we ...
God of our fathers, known of old -- Lord of our far-flung battle line -- Beneath whose awful hand we ...
Stone-cutters fighting time with marble, you foredefeated Challengers of oblivion Eat cynical earnings, knowing rock splits, records fall down, The ...
WITH palette laden She sat, as I passed her, A dainty maiden Before an Old Master. What mountain-top is She ...
Till I shall come again, let this suffice, I send my salt, my sacrifice To thee, thy lady, younglings, and ...
High up the brick old mill building up above the brick, the granite, between the clapboard window dormers hanging on ...
Memories fade, distances grow, dust builds on the pictures, the moment of our lives accumulate, separate our pasts from our ...
Prate, ye who will, of so-called charms you find across the sea-- The land of stoves and sunshine is good ...
A blackbird lands A good beer-barrel A man sits in a cave knitting A theatre in Copenhagen Abask the sea-wall ...
Thousand minstrels woke within me, "Our music's in the hills; "- Gayest pictures rose to win me, Leopard-colored rills. Up!-If ...
Though loth to grieve The evil time's sole patriot, I cannot leave My buried thought For the priest's cant, Or ...
Man was made of social earth, Child and brother from his birth; Tethered by a liquid cord Of blood through ...
I PRELUDE Daughter of Psyche, pledge of that last night When, pierced with pain and bitter-sweet delight, She knew her ...
The way Hope builds his House It is not with a sill -- Nor Rafter -- has that Edifice But ...
Dust is the only Secret -- Death, the only One You cannot find out all about In his "native town." ...
ASK me no more where Jove bestows, When June is past, the fading rose; For in your beauty's orient deep ...
Ask me no more where Jove bestows, When June is past, the fading rose; For in your beauty's orient deep ...
Ask me no more where Jove bestows, When June is past, the fading rose; For in your beauty's orient deep ...
Ask me no more where Jove bestows, When June is past, the fading rose; For in your beauty's orient deep ...
WE saw Thee in Thy balmy nest, Young dawn of our eternal day; We saw Thine eyes break from the ...
CHORUS Come we shepherds whose blest sight Hath met love's noon in nature's night; Come lift we up our loftier ...
Come queen of months in company Wi all thy merry minstrelsy The restless cuckoo absent long And twittering swallows chimney ...
Farewell to the bushy clump close to the river And the flags where the butter-bump hides in forever; Farewell to ...
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
1 Sometime now past in the Autumnal Tide, 2 When Ph{oe}bus wanted but one hour to bed, 3 The trees ...
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
Oh, to be in England Now that April's there, And whoever wakes in England Sees, some morning, unaware, That the ...
Orpheus liked the glad personal quality Of the things beneath the sky. Of course, Eurydice was a part Of this. ...
Love seeketh not Itself to please. Nor for itself hath any care; But for another gives its ease. And builds ...
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