The Benefactors (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Ah! What avails the classic bent And what the cultured word, Against the undoctored incident That actually occurred? And what ...
Ah! What avails the classic bent And what the cultured word, Against the undoctored incident That actually occurred? And what ...
O Sovereign power of love! O grief! O balm! All records, saving thine, come cool, and calm, And shadowy, through ...
I. Fair Isabel, poor simple Isabel! Lorenzo, a young palmer in Love's eye! They could not in the self-same mansion ...
When our moggy brings in moths, she squeaks through the kitchen, tips between her teeth, and scoots upstairs to scuff ...
Now, moving in, cartons on the floor, the radio playing to bare walls, picture hooks left stranded in the unsoiled ...
My father's head has become a mystery to him. We finally have something in common. When he moves his head ...
COME, dear old comrade, you and I Will steal an hour from days gone by, The shining days when life ...
Till I shall come again, let this suffice, I send my salt, my sacrifice To thee, thy lady, younglings, and ...
If ye will with Mab find grace, Set each platter in his place; Rake the fire up, and get Water ...
Somewhere afield here something lies In Earth's oblivious eyeless trust That moved a poet to prophecies - A pinch of ...
up the ladder and round the bend age spirals like a convolvulus its bells break into the light catching breath ...
(1) a great man there was a great man so great he couldn't be criticised in the light who died ...
to be willing clay, giving over to the master letting go of control our will submitting to His our bodies, ...
At our table, gathering, Luke searching the scriptures, the lessons for a recipe for a life, lived in piety blending ...
I see you, Maister Bawsy-brown, Through yonder lattice creepin'; You come for cream and to gar me dream, But you ...
SOLICITED I've been to give a tale, In which (though true, decorum must prevail), The subject from a picture shall ...
I met a lady from the South who said (You won't believe she said it, but she said it): "None ...
When by thy scorn, O murd'ress, I am dead, And that thou think'st thee free From all solicitation from me, ...
A poet's cat, sedate and grave As poet well could wish to have, Was much addicted to inquire For nooks ...
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
"DON'T they consult the 'Victims,' though?" I said. "They should, by rights, Give them a chance - because, you know, ...
"OH, when I was a little Ghost, A merry time had we! Each seated on his favourite post, We chumped ...
The cruelty of P. L. Brown- (He had ten toes as good as mine) Was known to every one in ...
I. You're my friend: I was the man the Duke spoke to; I helped the Duchess to cast off his ...
1 It once might have been, once only: 2 We lodged in a street together, 3 You, a sparrow on ...
"Thou thoughtest that I was altogether such a one as thyself." (David, Psalms 50.21) ['Will sprawl, now that the heat ...
NO more wine? then we'll push back chairs and talk. A final glass for me, though: cool, i' faith! We ...
WHAT ails ye now, ye lousie bitch To thresh my back at sic a pitch? Losh, man! hae mercy wi' ...
Little Cowboy, what have you heard, Up on the lonely rath's green mound? Only the plaintive yellow bird Sighing in ...
A quay with vessels moored Thomas To India! Yea, here I may take ship; From here the courses go over ...
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