Butterflies (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Eyes aloft, over dangerous places, The children follow the butterflies, And, in the sweat of their upturned faces, Slash with ...
Eyes aloft, over dangerous places, The children follow the butterflies, And, in the sweat of their upturned faces, Slash with ...
When, darkly brooding on this Modern Age, The journalist with his marketable woes Fills up once more the inevitable page ...
Hapcot! To thee the Fairy State I with discretion, dedicate. Because thou prizest things that are Curious, and un-familiar. Take ...
Freezing dusk is closing Like a slow trap of steel On trees and roads and hills and all That can ...
i take my property with me says the snail slow-moving (yes) but packed with sublime thought the house upon its ...
The snail pushes through a green night, for the grass is heavy with water and meets over the bright path ...
'But that was nothing to what things came out From the sea-caves of Criccieth yonder.' 'What were they? Mermaids? dragons? ...
Whole complete worlds unaware of my own oblivious to my presence, unless I block the light living, between the tides, ...
The slow calving of a glacier, the sudden eruption of a once dormant volcano The birth of a rainbow at ...
The creatures of the air are the creatures of creation Birds, bats, flying squirrel, flying fish, cardinals, crow, pelican, penguin, ...
Bees may be trusted, always, to discover the best, nay, the only human, solution. Let me cite an instance; an ...
For Lincoln MacVeagh Never tell me that not one star of all That slip from heaven at night and softly ...
A blackbird lands A good beer-barrel A man sits in a cave knitting A theatre in Copenhagen Abask the sea-wall ...
A huge shoe mounts up from the horizon, squealing and grinding forward on small wheels, even as a man sitting ...
I Before I grew this spacesuit I was trim. I saw it in a doctor's report: "The subject is an ...
"Will you walk a little faster?" said a whiting to a snail, "There's a porpoise close behind us, and he's ...
'Tis evening; the black snail has got on his track, And gone to its nest is the wren, And the ...
For quick mental hygiene, the snail's my white mobile clinic, Dr. Hoodoo inside. Seriously. The snail's my man. He's shy, ...
I. You're my friend: I was the man the Duke spoke to; I helped the Duchess to cast off his ...
I. THE FLOWER'S NAME Here's the garden she walked across, Arm in my arm, such a short while since: Hark, ...
The year's at the spring, And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hill-side's dew-pearl'd; The lark's on the ...
The year's at the spring, And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hill-side's dew-pearled; The lark's on the ...
I am too big. Too big by far. Pity me. My eyes bulge and hurt. They are my one great ...
This is not my home. How did I get so far from water? It must be over that way somewhere. ...
The rain has stopped. The waterfall will roar like that all night. I have come out to take a walk ...
Beloved, let us once more praise the rain. Let us discover some new alphabet, For this, the often praised; and ...
Hebrew writing and Arabic writing go from east to west, Latin writing, from west to east. Languages are like cats: ...
THOU, Nature, partial Nature, I arraign; Of thy caprice maternal I complain. The peopled fold thy kindly care have found, ...
LATE crippl'd of an arm, and now a leg, About to beg a pass for leave to beg; Dull, listless, ...
and the sun weilds mercy but like a jet torch carried to high, and the jets whip across its sight ...
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