Christmas in India (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Dim dawn behind the tamerisks -- the sky is saffron-yellow -- As the women in the village grind the corn, ...
Dim dawn behind the tamerisks -- the sky is saffron-yellow -- As the women in the village grind the corn, ...
1 Let observation with extensive view, 2 Survey mankind, from China to Peru; 3 Remark each anxious toil, each eager ...
Wasn't on purpose that I drilled through my finger or the nurse laughed. She apologized three times and gave me ...
I towered far, and lo! I stood within The presence of the Lord Most High, Sent thither by the sons ...
(* In the original, Schwager, which has the twofold meaning of brother-in-law and postilion.) HASTEN thee, ...
MY mistress, where sits she? What is it that charms? The absent she's rocking, Held fast in her arms. In ...
When man had ceased to utter his lament, A god then let me tell my tale of sorrow. WHAT hope ...
[To the memory of an excellent and beautiful girl of 17, belonging to the village of Brienen, who perished on ...
FLOURISH greener, as ye clamber, Oh ye leaves, to seek my chamber, Up the trellis'd vine on high! May ye ...
Joy from that in type we borrow, Which in life gives only sorrow. JOY. A DRAGON-FLY with beauteous wing Is ...
PASSION brings reason--who can ...
IN His blest name, who was His own creation, Who from all time makes making his vocation; The name of ...
The gold-hoarder walked in his palace park and with him walked his troubles. And over his head hovered worries as ...
Man was made of social earth, Child and brother from his birth; Tethered by a liquid cord Of blood through ...
THEY are rattling breakfast plates in basement kitchens, And along the trampled edges of the street I am aware of ...
In a stable of boats I lie still, From all sleeping children hidden. The leap of a fish from its ...
Love -- is that later Thing than Death -- More previous -- than Life -- Confirms it at its entrance ...
These houres, and that which hovers o're my End, Into thy hands, and hart, lord, I commend. Take Both to ...
Guns! far and near Quick, sudden, angry, They startle the still street, Upturned faces appear, Doors open on darkness, There ...
Above the ponds, beyond the valleys, The woods, the mountains, the clouds, the seas, Farther than the sun, the distant ...
September rain falls on the house. In the failing light, the old grandmother sits in the kitchen with the child ...
Now, when the moon slid under the cloud And the cold clear dark of starlight fell, He heard in his ...
Round white clouds roll slowly above the housetops, Over the clear red roofs they flow and pass. A flock of ...
Yad Mordechai. Those who fell here still look out the windows like sick children who are not allowed outside to ...
Night. O you whose countenance, dissolved in deepness, hovers above my face. You who are the heaviest counterweight to my ...
Under yonder beech-tree single on the green-sward, Couched with her arms behind her golden head, Knees and tresses folded to ...
Lord God that dost me save and keep, All day to thee I cry; And all night long, before thee ...
Chapter I. Once on a time, a Dawn, all red and bright Leapt on the conquered ramparts of the Night, ...
Somewhere the long mellow note of the blackbird Quickens the unclasping hands of hazel, Somewhere the wind-flowers fling their heads ...
St. Francis, Buddha, Tolstoi, and St. John - Friends, if you four, as pilgrims, hand in hand, Returned, the hate ...
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