The Ladies (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
I've taken my fun where I've found it; I've rouged an' I've ranged in my time; I've 'ad my pickin' ...
I've taken my fun where I've found it; I've rouged an' I've ranged in my time; I've 'ad my pickin' ...
We are very slightly changed From the semi-apes who ranged India's Prehistoric clay; He that drew the longest bow Ran ...
O who will give me tears? Come, all ye springs, Dwell in my head and eyes; come, clouds and rain; ...
I love all sights of earth and skies, From flowers that glow to stars that shine; The comet and the ...
QUICK throbb'd my heart: to norse! haste, haste, And lo! 'twas done with ...
Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain, Where health and plenty cheered the labouring swain, Where smiling spring its earliest ...
Part One The power of charity sows deep in my heart, and I reap and gather the wheat in bundles ...
Fidgety, that is probably the best way to describe us a ragtag gathering by the van loading a week's supplies, ...
In the little room, off the sanctuary, the space where worship supplies were kept, a stack of white linen tablecloths, ...
I'M now disposed to give a pretty tale; Love laughs at what I've sworn and will prevail; Men, gods, and ...
TO you, my friends, allow me to detail, The feats of monks in Catalonia's vale, Where oft the holy fathers ...
I RECOLLECT, that lately much I blamed, The sort of lover, avaricious named; And if in opposites we reason see, ...
THE key, which opes the chest of hoarded gold. Unlocks the heart that favours would withhold. To this the god ...
DAN CUPID, though the god of soft amour, In ev'ry age works miracles a store; Can Catos change to male ...
IF truth give pleasure, surely we should try; To found our tales on what we can rely; Th' experiment repeatedly ...
A CERTAIN pious rector (John his name), But little preached, except when vintage came; And then no preparation he required ...
The day after Christmas, young Albert Were what's called, confined to his bed, With a tight kind of pain in ...
Who gave thee, O Beauty! The keys of this breast, Too credulous lover Of blest and unblest? Say when in ...
In pious times, ere priest-craft did begin, Before polygamy was made a sin; When man, on many, multipli'd his kind, ...
There is fog upon the river, there is mirk upon the town; You can hear the groping ferries as they ...
His master taken from his head, Elisha saw him go; And in desponding accents said, "Ah, what must Israel do?" ...
Almighty King! whose wondrous hand Supports the weight of sea and land; Whose grace is such a boundless store, No ...
To keep the lamp alive, With oil we fill the bowl; 'Tis water makes the willow thrive, And grace that ...
The Spirit breathes upon the word, And brings the truth to sight; Precepts and promises afford A sanctifying light. A ...
The Saviour hides His face; My spirit thirsts to prove Renew'd supplies of pardoning grace, And never-fading love. The favor'd ...
The Beaver's Lesson They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; ...
Dedication Inscribed to a dear Child: in memory of golden summer hours and whispers of a summer sea. Girt with ...
A ROSE, as fair as ever saw the North, Grew in a little garden all alone; A sweeter flower did ...
Cupid on a summer day, Wearied by unceasing play, In a rose heart sleeping lay, While, to guard the tricksy ...
There is a mystic thread of life So dearly wreath'd with mine alone, That Destiny's relentless knife At once must ...
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