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 ...
"O bees, sweet bees!" I said, "that nearest field Is shining white with fragrant immortelles. Fly swiftly there and drain ...
'Twas in the prime of summer-time An evening calm and cool, And four-and-twenty happy boys Came bounding out of school: ...
What perfumed, posie-dizened sirrah, With smiles for diet, Clasps you, O fair but faithless Pyrrha, On the quiet? For whom ...
When Father Time swings round his scythe, Entomb me 'neath the bounteous vine, So that its juices, red and blithe, ...
IN ev'ry age, at Naples, we are told, Intrigue and gallantry reign uncontrolled; With beauteous objects in abundance blessed. No ...
You have obey'd, you WINDS, that must fulfill The Great Disposer's righteous Will; Throughout the Land, unlimited you flew, Nor ...
O quam te memorem virgo... STAND on the highest pavement of the stair- Lean on a garden urn- Weave, weave ...
It was no place for the faithless, so I felt a little odd walking the marshland with my daughters, Canada ...
Oh, let me not serve so, as those men serve Whom honour's smokes at once fatten and starve; Poorly enrich't ...
Hark ! from the battlements of yonder tower The solemn bell has tolled the midnight hour ! Roused from drear ...
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
The faithless shadows of day are running And high and clear is the call of bells, Steps of the church ...
Oh! could I hope the wise and pure in heart Might hear my song without a frown, nor deem My ...
So light we were, so right we were, so fair faith shone, And the way was laid so certainly, that, ...
I have been so great a lover: filled my days So proudly with the splendour of Love's praise, The pain, ...
There was a time, I need not name, Since it will ne'er forgotten be, When all our feelings were the ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
'Twas after dread Pultowa's day, When fortune left the royal Swede - Around a slaughtered army lay, No more to ...
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
ON WHICH THE JEWS WERE FORCED TO ATTEND AN ANNUAL CHRISTIAN SERMON IN ROME. [``Now was come about Holy-Cross Day, ...
I My love, this is the bitterest, that thou Who art all truth and who dost love me now As ...
O LASSIE, are ye sleepin yet, Or are ye waukin, I wad wit? For Love has bound me hand an' ...
HERE awa, there awa, wandering Willie, Here awa, there awa, haud awa hame; Come to my bosom, my ain only ...
Come, dear children, let us away; Down and away below! Now my brothers call from the bay, Now the great ...
O THOU pale orb that silent shines While care-untroubled mortals sleep! Thou seest a wretch who inly pines. And wanders ...
THOU whom chance may hither lead, Be thou clad in russet weed, Be thou deckt in silken stole, Grave these ...
ALTHO' he has left me for greed o' the siller, I dinna envy him the gains he can win; I ...
THE SUN had clos'd the winter day, The curless quat their roarin play, And hunger'd maukin taen her way, To ...
AGAIN the silent wheels of time Their annual round have driven, And you, tho' scarce in maiden prime, Are so ...
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