Zion (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
The Doorkeepers of Zion, They do not always stand In helmet and whole armour, With halberds in their hand; But, ...
The Doorkeepers of Zion, They do not always stand In helmet and whole armour, With halberds in their hand; But, ...
(From The Jungle Book) As the dawn was breaking the Sambhur belled Once, twice, and again! And a doe leaped ...
Cold is for the mistress -- silver for the maid -- Copper for the craftsman cunning at his trade." "Good!" ...
Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently ...
Souls of Poets dead and gone, What Elysium have ye known, Happy field or mossy cavern, Choicer than the Mermaid ...
THE TURN Brave infant of Saguntum, clear Thy coming forth in that great year, When the prodigious Hannibal did crown ...
Drink to me only with thine eyes, And I will pledge with mine; Or leave a kiss but in the ...
'My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.' Arthur ...
To sup with thee thou didst me home invite, And mad'st a promise that mine appetite Should meet and tire, ...
In numbers, and but these few, I sing thy birth, oh JESU! Thou pretty Baby, born here, With sup'rabundant scorn ...
What could be dafter Than John Skelton's laughter? What sound more tenderly Than his pretty poetry? So where to rank ...
Millions of babies watching the skies Bellies swollen, with big round eyes On Jessore Road--long bamboo huts Noplace to shit ...
Little gifts of the heart thank you gifts giving in procession, in unison in communion As we come forward to ...
THE worst of ills, with jealousy compared, Are trifling torments ev'ry where declared. IMAGINE, to yourself a silly fool, To ...
On young Albert Ramsbottom's birthday His parents asked what he'd like most; He said to see t' Tower of London ...
They please me not-- these solemn songs That hint of sermons covered up. 'T is true the world should heed ...
This is the feast of heavenly wine, And God invites to sup; The juices of the living Vine Were press'd ...
"DON'T they consult the 'Victims,' though?" I said. "They should, by rights, Give them a chance - because, you know, ...
The shades of night was fallin' slow As through New York a guy did go And nail on ev'ry barroom ...
Kentish Sir Byng stood for his King, Bidding the crop-headed Parliament swing: And, pressing a troop unable to stoop And ...
Up the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren't go a-hunting For fear of little men; Wee folk, good ...
Little Cowboy, what have you heard, Up on the lonely rath's green mound? Only the plaintive yellow bird Sighing in ...
Through Alpine meadows soft-suffused With rain, where thick the crocus blows, Past the dark forges long disused, The mule-track from ...
You never heard tell of the story? Well, now, I can hardly believe! Never heard of the honour and glory ...
Husbands are things that wives have to get used to putting up with. And with whom they breakfast with and ...
It seemed that out of the battle I escaped Down some profound dull tunnel, long since scooped Through granites which ...
A mile behind is Gloucester town Where the flishing fleets put in, A mile ahead the land dips down And ...
Within this sober Frame expect Work of no Forrain Architect; That unto Caves the Quarries drew, And Forrests did to ...
Courage my Soul, now learn to wield The weight of thine immortal Shield. Close on thy Head thy Helmet bright. ...
Courage my Soul, now learn to wield The weight of thine immortal Shield. Close on thy Head thy Helmet bright. ...
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