The Palace (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
When I was a King and a Mason -- a Master proven and skilled -- I cleared me ground for ...
When I was a King and a Mason -- a Master proven and skilled -- I cleared me ground for ...
Now this is the tale of the Council the German Kaiser decreed, To ease the strong of their burden, to ...
Read here: This is the story of Evarra -- man -- Maker of Gods in lands beyond the sea. Because ...
O Sovereign power of love! O grief! O balm! All records, saving thine, come cool, and calm, And shadowy, through ...
Oh all ye, who pass by, whose eyes and mind To worldly things are sharp, but to me blind; To ...
Ah, Posthumus! our years hence fly And leave no sound: nor piety, Or prayers, or vow Can keep the wrinkle ...
Good morrow to the day so fair; Good morning, sir, to you; Good morrow to mine own torn hair, Bedabbled ...
THE warder looks down at the mid hour of night, On the tombs that lie scatter'd below: The moon fills ...
THOU art confused, my beloved, at, seeing the thousandfold union Shown in this flowery troop, over the garden dispers'd; any ...
THE turtle on yon withered bough, That lately mourned her murdered mate, Has found another comrade now-- Such changes all ...
EXAMPLE often proves of sov'reign use; At other times it cherishes abuse; 'Tis not my purpose, howsoe'er, to tell Which ...
ONCE more permit me, nuns, and this the last; I can't resist, whatever may have passed, But must relate, what ...
DIVERTING in extreme there is a play, Which oft resumes its fascinating sway; Delights the sex, or ugly, fair, or ...
A DEMON, blacker in his skin than heart, So great a charm was prompted to impart; To one in love, ...
WHEN Venus and Hypocrisy combine, Oft pranks are played that show a deep design; Men are but men, and friars ...
WHEN Francis (named the first) o'er Frenchmen reign'd, In Italy young Arthur laurels gained, And oft such daring valour showed ...
TWO lawyers to their cause so well adhered, A country justice quite confused appeared, By them the facts were rendered ...
IN Eastern climes, by means considered new; The Mount's old-man, with terrors would pursue; His large domains howe'er were not ...
IF these gay tales give pleasure to the FAIR, The honour's great conferred, I'm well aware; Yet, why suppose the ...
IN life oft ills from self-imprudence spring; As proof, Candaules' story we will bring; In folly's scenes the king was ...
YOUR name with ev'ry pleasure here I place, The last effusions of my muse to grace. O charming Phillis! may ...
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
Even tonight will pass into memory's oblivion, doomed, despite an ardent reunion of once estranged yet precisely matched parts, to ...
Were meetings predestined then ours was intended, great oracles decreed it as fate, and the auguries chattered with sweet benefactors ...
Were meetings destined then this was one to take a leading place, the oracle decreed it fate in a matrix ...
Let them declare Jihad then, let them despair that I will speak the truth as I see it, and where ...
I Before I grew this spacesuit I was trim. I saw it in a doctor's report: "The subject is an ...
Love's worshippers alone can know The thousand mysteries that are his; His blazing torch, his twanging bow, His blooming age ...
The Moorish King rides up and down, Through Granada's royal town; From Elvira's gate to those Of Bivarambla on he ...
The Moorish King rides up and down, Through Granada's royal town; From Elvira's gate to those Of Bivarambla on he ...
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