The Winners (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
What the moral? Who rides may read. When the night is thick and the tracks are blind A friend at ...
What the moral? Who rides may read. When the night is thick and the tracks are blind A friend at ...
Where run your colts at pasture? Where hide your mares to breed? 'Mid bergs about the Ice-cap Or wove Sargasso ...
Beyond the path of the outmost sun through utter darkness hurled -- Further than ever comet flared or vagrant star-dust ...
Eyes of grey -- a sodden quay, Driving rain and falling tears, As the steamer wears to sea In a ...
So we settled it all when the storm was done As comfy as comfy could be; And I was to ...
The King has called for priest and cup, The King has taken spur and blade To dub True Thomas a ...
Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently ...
HIGH-SPIRITED friend, I send nor balms nor cor'sives to your wound: Your fate hath found A gentler and more agile ...
I caught this morning morning's minion, king- dom of daylight's dauphin, dapple-dawn-drawn Falcon, in his riding Of the rolling level ...
That flow of gallants which approach To kiss thy hand from out the coach; That fleet of lackeys which do ...
Queer are the ways of a man I know: He comes and stands In a careworn craze, And looks at ...
Oh, a wonderful horse is the Fly-Away Horse - Perhaps you have seen him before; Perhaps, while you slept, his ...
Richard the First, Coeur-de-Lion, Is a name that we speak of with pride, Though he only lived six months in ...
Venus, when her son was lost, Cried him up and down the coast, In hamlets, palaces, and parks, And told ...
The Life that tied too tight escapes Will ever after run With a prudential look behind And spectres of the ...
I met a King this afternoon! He had not on a Crown indeed, A little Palmleaf Hat was all, And ...
PART I On Susquehanna's side, fair Wyoming! Although the wild-flower on thy ruin'd wall, And roofless homes, a sad remembrance ...
Hear me, Lord of the Stars! For thee I have worshipped ever With stains and sorrows and scars, With joyful, ...
Hear me, Lord of the Stars! For thee I have worshipped ever With stains and sorrows and scars, With joyful, ...
THE PROLOGUE. WHEN folk had laughed all at this nice case Of Absolon and Hendy Nicholas, Diverse folk diversely they ...
1 They that in play can do the thing they would, Having an instinct throned in reason's place, --And every ...
O God, in the dream the terrible horse began To paw at the air, and make for me with his ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
'Twas after dread Pultowa's day, When fortune left the royal Swede - Around a slaughtered army lay, No more to ...
A Fragment of a Turkish Tale The tale which these disjointed fragments present, is founded upon circumstances now less common ...
LARA. CANTO THE FIRST. I. The Serfs are glad through Lara's wide domain, And slavery half forgets her ...
THE SUN had clos'd the winter day, The curless quat their roarin play, And hunger'd maukin taen her way, To ...
On March 1, 1958, four deserters from the French Army of North Africa, August Rein, Henri Bruette, Jack Dauville, & ...
I As the blind Milton's memory of light, The deaf Beethoven's phantasy of tone, Wroght joys for them surpassing all ...
Chapter I. Once on a time, a Dawn, all red and bright Leapt on the conquered ramparts of the Night, ...
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