Mary, Pity Women! (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
You call yourself a man, For all you used to swear, An' Leave me, as you can, My certain shame ...
You call yourself a man, For all you used to swear, An' Leave me, as you can, My certain shame ...
The bachelor 'e fights for one As joyful as can be; But the married man don't call it fun, Because ...
At times when under cover I 'ave said, To keep my spirits up an' raise a laugh, 'Earin 'im pass ...
You may talk o' gin and beer When you're quartered safe out 'ere, An' you're sent to penny-fights an' Aldershot ...
BOOK I Deep in the shady sadness of a vale Far sunken from the healthy breath of morn, Far from ...
O Goddess! hear these tuneless numbers, wrung By sweet enforcement and remembrance dear, And pardon that thy secrets should be ...
Tim Turpin he was gravel-blind, And ne'er had seen the skies : For Nature, when his head was made, Forgot ...
O day most calm, most bright The fruit of this, the next world's bud, Th'endorsement of supreme delight, Writ by ...
I cannot ope mine eyes, But thou art ready there to catch My morning-soul and sacrifice: Then we must needs ...
Till I shall come again, let this suffice, I send my salt, my sacrifice To thee, thy lady, younglings, and ...
A Pindaric Ode Awake, Aeolian lyre, awake, And give to rapture all thy trembling strings. From Helicon's harmonious springs A ...
I LATELY vowed to leave the nuns alone, So oft their freaks have in my page been shown. The subject ...
THE change of food enjoyment is to man; In this, t'include the woman is my plan. I cannot guess why ...
SOLICITED I've been to give a tale, In which (though true, decorum must prevail), The subject from a picture shall ...
WHEN Venus and Hypocrisy combine, Oft pranks are played that show a deep design; Men are but men, and friars ...
NEAR Rome, of yore, close to the Florence road, Was seen a humble innkeeper's abode; Small sums were charged; few ...
A CERTAIN pious rector (John his name), But little preached, except when vintage came; And then no preparation he required ...
IN ev'ry age, at Naples, we are told, Intrigue and gallantry reign uncontrolled; With beauteous objects in abundance blessed. No ...
TO charms and philters, secret spells and prayers, How many round attribute all their cares! In these howe'er I never ...
IN life oft ills from self-imprudence spring; As proof, Candaules' story we will bring; In folly's scenes the king was ...
PRONE, on my couch I calmly slept Against my wont. A little child Awoke me as he gently crept And ...
The south-wind brings Life, sunshine, and desire, And on every mount and meadow Breathes aromatic fire, But over the dead ...
Whoe'er she be, That not impossible she That shall command my heart and me; Where'er she lie, Locked up from ...
I sing the Name which None can say But touch't with An interiour Ray: The Name of our New Peace; ...
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
Si credere dignum est.--Virgil, Georgics, III, 390 Oh, worthy of belief I hold it was, Virgil, your legend in those ...
I. You're my friend: I was the man the Duke spoke to; I helped the Duchess to cast off his ...
I. Said Abner, ``At last thou art come! Ere I tell, ere thou speak, ``Kiss my cheek, wish me well!'' ...
I. Gr-r-r---there go, my heart's abhorrence! Water your damned flower-pots, do! If hate killed men, Brother Lawrence, God's blood, would ...
Glion?--Ah, twenty years, it cuts All meaning from a name! White houses prank where once were huts. Glion, but not ...
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