The Native-Born (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
We've drunk to the Queen -- God bless her! -- We've drunk to our mothers' land; We've drunk to our ...
We've drunk to the Queen -- God bless her! -- We've drunk to our mothers' land; We've drunk to our ...
"You must choose between me and your cigar." -- BREACH OF PROMISE CASE, CIRCA 1885. Open the old cigar-box, get ...
If you should look for this place after a handful of lifetimes: Perhaps of my planted forest a few May ...
The storm-dances of gulls, the barking game of seals, Over and under the ocean ... Divinely superfluous beauty Rules the ...
THROUGH my north window, in the wintry weather,-- My airy oriel on the river shore,-- I watch the sea-fowl as ...
Louder than gulls the little children scream Whom fathers haul into the jovial foam; But others fearlessly rush in, breast ...
Maybe it is the memories the change of pace that brings us there our sense of vacation maybe the smell ...
A foggy day on the ocean, my feet in the warm surf, feeling the water lapping, the movement of the ...
Laughing, we ran on the hot sand The damp beach under our feet The glistening ocean before us The girl ...
a dock, a working pier out into the estuary the pull of the tides, swaying seaweed barnacles, algae, the smell ...
Gulls perched on the pilings a cormorant coursing low toward the open sea a breeze inland from the Atlantic up ...
Peeling away the curtain that blocks them from the outside world the world of crickets, of wind, of gulls, of ...
Maybe it is the memories the change of pace that brings us there the sense of vacation maybe the smell ...
Loneliness and aloneness they are not the same for the shell of the mind hears echoes of many seas it ...
A blackbird lands A good beer-barrel A man sits in a cave knitting A theatre in Copenhagen Abask the sea-wall ...
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot "Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et ...
I IN EXCELSIS Two dwellings, Peace, are thine. One is the mountain-height, Uplifted in the loneliness of light Beyond the ...
In these quiet moments before the night softens the mountains of the South and deflates the clouds that float beneath ...
Where are the ships I used to know, That came to port on the Fundy tide Half a century ago, ...
A forge burns in my heart. I am redder than dawn, Deeper than seaweed, More distant than gulls, More hollow ...
To the tune "As in a Dream" I have long remembered the pavilion on the stream the falling sun so ...
This morning was something. A little snow lay on the ground. The sun floated in a clear blue sky. The ...
Bird-watching colonels on the old sea wall, Down here at Dawlish where the slow trains crawl: Low tide lifting, on ...
Gods, what a black, fierce day! The clouds were iron, Wrenched to strange, rugged shapes; the red sun winked Over ...
The grey gulls drift across the bay Softly and still as flakes of snow Against the thinning fog. All day ...
Cass was the youngest and most beautiful of 5 sisters. Cass was the most beautiful girl in town. 1/2 Indian ...
Because it all just breaks apart, and the pieces scatter and rearrange without much fanfare or notice. Because you can't ...
More towers must yet be built-more towers destroyed- Great rocks hoisted in air; And he must seek his bread in ...
One, from his high bright window in a tower, Leans out, as evening falls, And sees the advancing curtain of ...
1 Senlin sat before us and we heard him. He smoked his pipe before us and we saw him. Was ...
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