One Viceroy Resigns (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
So here's your Empire. No more wine, then? Good. We'll clear the Aides and khitmatgars away. (You'll know that fat ...
So here's your Empire. No more wine, then? Good. We'll clear the Aides and khitmatgars away. (You'll know that fat ...
Nature teaches us our tongue again And the swift sentences came pat. I came Into cool night rescued from rainy ...
August First: it was a year ago we drove down from St.-Guilhem-le-Désert to open the house in St. Guiraud rented ...
COVER thy spacious heavens, Zeus, With clouds of mist, And, like the boy who lops The thistles' heads, Disport with ...
As the Lord has planned we will be gathered the broken pieces redeemed as the potter and the clay Our ...
You lifted me Lord out of a dark place the pit of my self when I tried to walk away ...
Though I will die not fearing this fate You will raise me from the grave and spare me from descend ...
The sticky mud, slimy mire the troubles, the ways of the world not a permanent sentence forgiven by the Lord ...
Placed up from the pit, the sticky mud of the world by the hand of God redeemed, saved placed up ...
The glory of ships is an old, old song, since the days when the sea-rovers ran In their open boats ...
I should have been too glad, I see -- Too lifted -- for the scant degree Of Life's penurious Round ...
PART I 'Tis the middle of night by the castle clock And the owls have awakened the crowing cock; Tu-whit!- ...
Wargeilah town is very small, There's no cathedral nor a club, In fact the township, all in all, Is just ...
I. You liked your scrolls ? - Here they are. The manuscript of your book ? - Here it is. ...
We who travel between worlds lose our muscle and bone. I was wheeling a barrow of earth when agony bayoneted ...
Annie Marshall was a foundling, and lived in Downderry, And was trained up by a coast-guardsman, kind-hearted and merry And ...
As the night was beginning to close in one rough September day In the year of 1838, a steamer passed ...
A heroic story I will unfold, Concerning Jenny Carrister, a heroine bold, Who lived in Australia, at a gold mine ...
'Twas in the year of 1898, ond on the 21st of June, The launching of the Battleship Albion caused a ...
'Twas on the 18th of August in the year of 1798, That Nelson saw with inexpressible delight The City of ...
A sad tale of the sea I will relate, which will your hearts appal Concerning the burning of the steamship ...
'Twas on a Sunday morning, and in the year of 1888, The steamer "Saxmundham," laden with coal and coke for ...
The 27th Regiment has mutinied at Kalapore; That was the substance of a telegram, which caused great uproar, At Sattara, ...
'Twas in the year of 1866, and on a very beautiful day, That eighty-two passengers, with spirits light and gay, ...
Ye landsmen, all pray list to me, While I relate a terrible tale of the sea, Concerning the screw steamer ...
'Twas in the year of 1886, and on the 29th of November, Which the surviving crew of the "Samuel Crawford" ...
How can you, my Lord, thus delight to torment all The Peers of realm about cheapening their corn, When you ...
[The late Mr. Jonathan Swift Somers, laureate of Spoon River, planned The Spooniad as an epic in twenty-four books, but ...
Undoubtedly he will relent, and turn From his displeasure; in whose look serene, When angry most he seemed and most ...
As one who in his journey bates at noon, Though bent on speed; so here the Arch-Angel paused Betwixt the ...
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