What the People Said (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
(June 21st, 1887) By the well, where the bullocks go Silent and blind and slow -- By the field where ...
(June 21st, 1887) By the well, where the bullocks go Silent and blind and slow -- By the field where ...
Oh, light was the world that he weighed in his hands! Oh, heavy the tale of his fiefs and his ...
So we settled it all when the storm was done As comfy as comfy could be; And I was to ...
'Twas in the prime of summer-time An evening calm and cool, And four-and-twenty happy boys Came bounding out of school: ...
The harbingers are come. See, see their mark; White is their colour, and behold my head. But must they have ...
Here is the girl's head like an exhumed gourd. Oval-faced, prune-skinned, prune-stones for teeth. They unswaddled the wet fern of ...
Wow, I found a thesis sentence In my title above. A clear and concise position I can support Here, there, ...
I Once a fowler, young and artless, To the quiet greenwood came; Full of skill was he and heartless In ...
FLORENTINE we now design to show;-- A greater blockhead ne'er appeared below; It seems a prudent woman he had wed, ...
A COUNTRYMAN, one day, his calf had lost, And, seeking it, a neighbouring forest crossed; The tallest tree that in ...
IN Lombardy's fair land, in days of yore, Once dwelt a prince, of youthful charms, a store; Each FAIR, with ...
No man is an island, Entire of itself. Each is a piece of the continent, A part of the main. ...
I was schooled well before he died, able at least to feel what others felt when their fathers were deceased. ...
All worldly shapes shall melt in gloom, The Sun himself must die, Before this mortal shall assume Its Immortality! I ...
I was a grovelling creature once, And basely cleaved to earth: I wanted spirit to renounce The clod that gave ...
"Lord, being dark," I said, "I cannot bear The further touch of earth, the scented air; Lord, being dark, forewilled ...
The wild duck startles like a sudden thought, And heron slow as if it might be caught. The flopping crows ...
WHEN Jessie comes with her soft breast, And yields the golden keys, Then is it as if God caress'd Twin ...
SHE will not sleep, for fear of dreams, But, rising, quits her restless bed, And walks where some beclouded beams ...
To him who in the love of nature holds Communion with her visible forms, she speaks A various language; for ...
(A Virginia Legend.) The Planting of the Hemp. Captain Hawk scourged clean the seas (Black is the gap below the ...
Never any more, While I live, Need I hope to see his face As before. Once his love grown chill, ...
I. Said Abner, ``At last thou art come! Ere I tell, ere thou speak, ``Kiss my cheek, wish me well!'' ...
I TRUTH is within ourselves; it takes no rise From outward things, whate'er you may believe. There is an inmost ...
Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, The last of life, for which the first was ...
WEE, modest crimson-tippèd flow'r, Thou's met me in an evil hour; For I maun crush amang the stoure Thy slender ...
ON TURNING ONE DOWN WITH THE PLOUGH, IN APRIL, 1786 Wee, modest, crimson-tipped flow'r, Thou's met me in an evil ...
1. The voice ended, they saw his pale visage Emerge from the darkness; his hand On the rock of eternity ...
THEL'S MOTTO 1 Does the Eagle know what is in the pit? 2 Or wilt thou go ask the Mole? ...
Love seeketh not Itself to please. Nor for itself hath any care; But for another gives its ease. And builds ...
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