The Legend of Mirth (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
The Four Archangels, so the legends tell, Raphael, Gabriel, Michael, Azrael, Being first of those to whom the Power was ...
The Four Archangels, so the legends tell, Raphael, Gabriel, Michael, Azrael, Being first of those to whom the Power was ...
Abdhur Rahman, the Durani Chief, of him is the story told. His mercy fills the Khyber hills -- his grace ...
St. Agnes' Eve--Ah, bitter chill it was! The owl, for all his feathers, was a-cold; The hare limp'd trembling through ...
I'M not a chicken; I have seen Full many a chill September, And though I was a youngster then, That ...
As Julia once a-slumb'ring lay, It chanced a bee did fly that way, After a dew, or dew-like shower, To ...
My soul would one day go and seek For roses, and in Julia's cheek A richess of those sweets she ...
The church flings forth a battled shade Over the moon-blanched sward: The church; my gift; whereto I paid My all ...
I. "Incense is hut a tribute for the gods,-- To mortals 'tis but poison." THE smoke that from thine altar ...
ON bridges small and bridges great Stands Nepomucks in ev'ry state, Of ...
I Once a fowler, young and artless, To the quiet greenwood came; Full of skill was he and heartless In ...
As once I rambled in the woods I chanced to spy amid the brake A huntsman ride his way beside ...
THE change of food enjoyment is to man; In this, t'include the woman is my plan. I cannot guess why ...
WHAT various ways in which a thing is told Some truth abuse, while others fiction hold; In stories we invention ...
THOSE who in fables deal, bestow at ease Both names and titles, freely as they please. It costs them scarcely ...
IN Eastern climes, by means considered new; The Mount's old-man, with terrors would pursue; His large domains howe'er were not ...
We chanced in passing by that afternoon To catch it in a sort of special picture Among tar-banded ancient cherry ...
Brown lived at such a lofty farm That everyone for miles could see His lantern when he did his chores ...
The reign of King William the Second Were an uninteresting affair There's only two things that's remembered of him That's ...
Within my reach! I could have touched! I might have chanced that way! Soft sauntered thro' the village -- Sauntered ...
Is there anything which isn't made in China? The answer is. of course there is, the question was rhetorical, a ...
I to the open road, You to the hunchbacked street - Which of us two Shall the earlier rue That ...
I to the open road, You to the hunchbacked street - Which of us two Shall the earlier rue That ...
PART I 'Tis the middle of night by the castle clock And the owls have awakened the crowing cock; Tu-whit!- ...
"OH, when I was a little Ghost, A merry time had we! Each seated on his favourite post, We chumped ...
Who played with a Loaded Gun, and, on missing his Sister was reprimanded by his Father. Young Algernon, the Doctor's ...
I chanced upon a new book yesterday; I opened it, and, where my finger lay 'Twixt page and uncut page, ...
I. You're my friend: I was the man the Duke spoke to; I helped the Duchess to cast off his ...
NO more wine? then we'll push back chairs and talk. A final glass for me, though: cool, i' faith! We ...
That's my last duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive. I call That piece a wonder, ...
on years, on the dance of whispers. where have we gone when the merry pranksters painted the soul of a ...
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