Lord Roberts (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
1914 He passed in the very battle-smoke Of the war that he had descried. Three hundred mile of cannon spoke ...
1914 He passed in the very battle-smoke Of the war that he had descried. Three hundred mile of cannon spoke ...
O Sovereign power of love! O grief! O balm! All records, saving thine, come cool, and calm, And shadowy, through ...
THERE were two youths of equal age, Wit, station, strength, and parentage; They studied at the self-same schools, And shaped ...
I rose at night and visited The Cave of the Unborn, And crowding shapes surrounded me For tidings of the ...
THE warder looks down at the mid hour of night, On the tombs that lie scatter'd below: The moon fills ...
IN Eastern climes, by means considered new; The Mount's old-man, with terrors would pursue; His large domains howe'er were not ...
Give me, O indulgent Fate! Give me yet before I die A sweet, but absolute retreat, 'Mongst paths so lost ...
Of all our antic sights and pageantry Which English idiots run in crowds to see, The Polish Medal bears the ...
Farewell, ungrateful traitor! Farewell, my perjur'd swain! Let never injur'd woman Believe a man again. The pleasure of possessing Surpasses ...
If faithful souls be alike glorified As angels, then my fathers soul doth see, And adds this even to full ...
The Road was lit with Moon and star -- The Trees were bright and still -- Descried I -- by ...
Oh Future! thou secreted peace Or subterranean woe -- Is there no wandering route of grace That leads away from ...
Not with a Club, the Heart is broken Nor with a Stone -- A Whip so small you could not ...
My Triumph lasted till the Drums Had left the Dead alone And then I dropped my Victory And chastened stole ...
Have any like Myself Investigating March, New Houses on the Hill descried -- And possibly a Church -- That were ...
Seven tailored suits, matching shoes and socks, a brace of muted ties with subtle breast pocket handkerchiefs descried, you wouldn't ...
I like the old house tolerably well, Where I must dwell Like a familiar gnome; And yet I never shall ...
As ships, becalmed at eve, that lay With canvas drooping, side by side, Two towers of sail at dawn of ...
You who desired so much--in vain to ask-- Yet fed you hunger like an endless task, Dared dignify the labor, ...
I. Said Abner, ``At last thou art come! Ere I tell, ere thou speak, ``Kiss my cheek, wish me well!'' ...
I. My first thought was, he lied in every word, That hoary cripple, with malicious eye Askance to watch the ...
1842 I As I ride, as I ride, With a full heart for my guide, So its tide rocks my ...
My dearest Frank, I wish you joy Of Mary's safety with a Boy, Whose birth has given little pain Compared ...
How changed is here each spot man makes or fills! In the two Hinkseys nothing keeps the same; The village ...
Go, for they call you, shepherd, from the hill; Go, shepherd, and untie the wattled cotes! No longer leave thy ...
Like the vain curlings of the watery maze, Which in smooth streams a sinking weight does raise, So Man, declining ...
I, who erewhile the happy Garden sung By one man's disobedience lost, now sing Recovered Paradise to all mankind, By ...
High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth or Ormus and of Ind, Or where the ...
No more of talk where God or Angel guest With Man, as with his friend, familiar us'd, To sit indulgent, ...
Mean while the heinous and despiteful act Of Satan, done in Paradise; and how He, in the serpent, had perverted ...
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