Godolphin Horne,Who was cursed with the Sin of Pride, and Became a Boot-Black. (Hilaire Belloc Poems)
Godolphin Horne was Nobly Born;He held the Human Race in Scorn,And lived with all his Sisters whereHis father lived, in ...
Godolphin Horne was Nobly Born;He held the Human Race in Scorn,And lived with all his Sisters whereHis father lived, in ...
IHe makes a roadway of the crumbling fence,Or on the fallen tree,—brown as a leafFall stripes with russet,—gambols down the ...
To my garden here translated,Foliage of this eastern treeNourishes the initiatedWith it's meaning's mystery.Is its leaf one self divided,Forked into ...
Ah me! what mighty perils waitThe man who meddles with a state,Whether to strengthen, or oppose!False are his friends, and ...
In boundless mercy, the Redeemer left,The bosom of his Father, and assumedA servant's form, though he had reigned a king,In ...
'ARF a pint for me, old party -- thank'ee, mister -- 'ere's yer 'ealth --'Opes y'll live to be a ...
I think I should suit, for I've knowledge minute Of all tickets, time-tables, and trains;All speedings and slowings and comings ...
From the indigo straits to Ossian's seas, on pink and orange sands washed by the vinous sky, crystal boulevards have ...
We welcome folks in Cactus Center if they've got an honest lay;If their game ain't too durn crooked, we never ...
Sometime when you're feeling important;Sometime when your ego's in bloomSometime when you take it for grantedYou're the best qualified in ...
576I prayed, at first, a little Girl,Because they told me to-But stopped, when qualified to guessHow prayer would feel-to me-If ...
He had offices in Sydney, not so many years ago, And his shingle bore the legend `Peter Anderson and Co.', ...
As the night was falling slowly down on city, town and bush, From a slum in Jones's Alley sloped the ...
All that we hear all that we read our faith revealed in our savior's life through the lens of Christ ...
We play at Paste -- Till qualified, for Pearl -- Then, drop the Paste -- And deem ourself a fool ...
The Province of the Saved Should be the Art -- To save -- Through Skill obtained in Themselves -- The ...
I prayed, at first, a little Girl, Because they told me to -- But stopped, when qualified to guess How ...
I have almost been reduced to a homeless pauper. This fatal city, Antioch, has consumed all my money; this fatal ...
Who was cursed with the Sin of Pride, and Became a Boot-Black. Godolphin Horne was Nobly Born; He held the ...
"Had we never loved so kindly, Had we never loved so blindly, Never met or never parted, We had ne'er ...
I I doubt if ten men in all Tilbury Town Had ever shaken hands with Captain Craig, Or called him ...
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