The King (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
"Farewell, Romance!" the Cave-men said; "With bone well carved he went away, Flint arms the ignoble arrowhead, And jasper tips ...
"Farewell, Romance!" the Cave-men said; "With bone well carved he went away, Flint arms the ignoble arrowhead, And jasper tips ...
'My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.' Arthur ...
Ah, Posthumus! our years hence fly And leave no sound: nor piety, Or prayers, or vow Can keep the wrinkle ...
Ah, Cruel Love! must I endure Thy many scorns, and find no cure? Say, are thy medicines made to be ...
FLOW on, ye lays so loved, so fair, On to Oblivion's ocean flow! May no rapt boy recall you e'er, ...
WHAT time our Lord still walk'd the earth, Unknown, despised, of humble birth, And on Him many a youth attended ...
To tag, or not to tag: that is the problem: Whether 'tis nobler in the whole to endure The slings ...
Something inspires the only cow of late To make no more of a wall than an open gate, And think ...
My thoughts hold mortal strife; I do detest my life, And with lamenting cries Peace to my soul to bring ...
(LIMBERHAM: OR, THE KIND KEEPER) By a dismal cypress lying, Damon cried, all pale and dying, Kind is death that ...
Where lies the land to which the ship would go? Far, far ahead, is all her seamen know. And where ...
Soul of the Poet ! wheresoe'er, Reclaimed from earth, thy genius plume Her wings of immortality ; Suspend thy harp ...
Grace, triumphant in the throne, Scorns a rival, reigns alone; Come and bow beneath her sway; Cast your idol works ...
Thus heav'nward all things tend. For all were once Perfect, and all must be at length restor'd. So God has ...
LEANDER. No more of Memphis and her mighty kings, Or Alexandria, where the Ptolomies. Taught golden commerce to unfurl her ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
I HOLD it, sir, my bounden duty To warn you how that Master Tootie, Alias, Laird M'Gaun, Was here to ...
I mind me in the days departed, How often underneath the sun With childish bounds I used to run To ...
Thou fair hair'd angel of the evening, Now, while the sun rests on the mountains light, Thy bright torch of ...
Part 1 WHAT dire Offence from am'rous Causes springs, What mighty Contests rise from trivial Things, I sing -- This ...
She said: the pitying audience melt in tears, But Fate and Jove had stopp'd the Baron's ears. In vain Thalestris ...
Wee falsely think it due unto our friends, That we should grieve for their too early ends: He that surveys ...
Content, the false World's best disguise, The search and faction of the Wise, Is so abstruse and hid in night, ...
Fly not yet, 'tis just the hour, When pleasure, like the midnight flower That scorns the eye of vulgar light, ...
After two sittings, now our Lady State To end her picture does the third time wait. But ere thou fall'st ...
I HOLD that when a person dies His soul returns again to earth; Arrayed in some new flesh-disguise Another mother ...
So spake the Son of God; and Satan stood A while as mute, confounded what to say, What to reply, ...
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown ...
I. THE VOICE OF THE MAN IMPATIENT WITH VISIONS AND UTOPIAS We find your soft Utopias as white As new-cut ...
Climbing the heights of Berkeley Nightly I watch the West. There lies new San Francisco, Sea-maid in purple dressed, Wearing ...
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