An Imperial Rescript (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Now this is the tale of the Council the German Kaiser decreed, To ease the strong of their burden, to ...
Now this is the tale of the Council the German Kaiser decreed, To ease the strong of their burden, to ...
Cain and Abel were brothers born. (Koop-la! Come along, cows!) One raised cattle and one raised corn. (Koop-la! Come along! ...
("Saint Proxed's ever was the Church for peace") If down here I chance to die, Solemnly I beg you take ...
1 Let observation with extensive view, 2 Survey mankind, from China to Peru; 3 Remark each anxious toil, each eager ...
Samuel Sewall, in a world of wigs, Flouted opinion in his personal hair; For foppery he gave not any figs, ...
GRANDMOTHER's mother: her age, I guess, Thirteen summers, or something less; Girlish bust, but womanly air; Smooth, square forehead with ...
The swallow of summer, she toils all the summer, A blue-dark knot of glittering voltage, A whiplash swimmer, a fish ...
The curfew tolls the knell of parting day, The lowing herd wind slowly o'er the lea, The ploughman homeward plods ...
What conversazzhyonies wuz I really did not know, For that, you must remember, wuz a powerful spell ago; The camp ...
This talk about the journalists that run the East is bosh, We've got a Western editor that's little, but, O ...
TO charms and philters, secret spells and prayers, How many round attribute all their cares! In these howe'er I never ...
On the banks of the Mersey, o'er on Cheshire side, Lies Runcorn that's best known to fame By Transporter Bridge ...
It was Christmas Day in the trenches In Spain in Penninsular War, And Sam Small were cleaning his musket A ...
I'll tell of the Magna Charter As were signed at the Barons' command On Runningmead Island in t' middle of ...
WEBSTER was much possessed by death And saw the skull beneath the skin; And breastless creatures under ground Leaned backward ...
The difference between Despair And Fear -- is like the One Between the instant of a Wreck And when the ...
Were I not a patriot, which of course I am, I would explain just how the term remains a sticking ...
Soul of the Poet ! wheresoe'er, Reclaimed from earth, thy genius plume Her wings of immortality ; Suspend thy harp ...
The sole true Something--This ! In Limbo Den It frightens Ghosts as Ghosts here frighten men-- For skimming in the ...
I did not delight in love so much as in a kiss like linnets' wings, the flutterings of a pulse ...
This is a day of happiness, sweet peace, And heavenly sunshine; upon which conven'd In full assembly fair, once more ...
You have heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay That was built in such a logical way It ran a hundred ...
Who Slammed Doors For Fun And Perished Miserably A trick that everyone abhors In little girls is slamming doors. A ...
I. Said Abner, ``At last thou art come! Ere I tell, ere thou speak, ``Kiss my cheek, wish me well!'' ...
alas our good kaspar is dead. who will bury a burning flag in the wings of the clouds who will ...
NO 1 sculptured marble here, nor pompous lay, "No storied urn nor animated bust;" This simple stone directs pale Scotia's ...
So, the bank has bust it's boiler! And in six or seven year It will pay me all my money ...
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten ...
PART I O! nothing earthly save the ray (Thrown back from flowers) of Beauty's eye, As in those gardens where ...
Did I follow Truth wherever she led, And stand against the whole world for a cause, And uphold the weak ...
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