Macdonough’s Song (Rudyard Kipling Poems)
"As easy as A B C"--A Diversity of Creatures" Whether the State can loose and bind In Heaven as well ...
"As easy as A B C"--A Diversity of Creatures" Whether the State can loose and bind In Heaven as well ...
Whatsoever thing I see, Rich or poor although it be, --'Tis a mistress unto me. Be my girl or fair ...
THE bed of flowers Loosens amain, The beauteous snowdrops Droop o'er the plain. The crocus opens Its glowing bud, Like ...
I see you, Maister Bawsy-brown, Through yonder lattice creepin'; You come for cream and to gar me dream, But you ...
You have obey'd, you WINDS, that must fulfill The Great Disposer's righteous Will; Throughout the Land, unlimited you flew, Nor ...
There is a flower that Bees prefer -- And Butterflies -- desire -- To gain the Purple Democrat The Humming ...
The Things that never can come back, are several -- Childhood -- some forms of Hope -- the Dead -- ...
The Luxury to apprehend The Luxury 'twould be To look at Thee a single time An Epicure of Me In ...
One crown that no one seeks And yet the highest head Its isolation coveted Its stigma deified While Pontius Pilate ...
Obtaining but our own Extent In whatsoever Realm -- 'Twas Christ's own personal Expanse That bore him from the Tomb ...
I meant to have but modest needs -- Such as Content -- and Heaven -- Within my income -- these ...
Hope is a subtle Glutton -- He feeds upon the Fair -- And yet -- inspected closely What Abstinence is ...
A Visitor in Marl -- Who influences Flowers -- Till they are orderly as Busts -- And Elegant -- as ...
A chilly Peace infests the Grass The Sun respectful lies -- Not any Trance of industry These shadows scrutinize -- ...
Can we not force from widow'd poetry, Now thou art dead (great Donne) one elegy To crown thy hearse? Why ...
A poet's cat, sedate and grave As poet well could wish to have, Was much addicted to inquire For nooks ...
When on the sandy shore I sit, Beside the salt sea-wave, And fall into a weeping fit Because I dare ...
WITNESS FOR TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA PEACE In San Francisco around Easter time last year, they had a trout fishing ...
Some are the brothers of all humankind, And own them, whatsoever their estate; And some, for sorrow and self-scorn, are ...
Amongst the flowers I am alone with my pot of wine drinking by myself; then lifting my cup I asked ...
Heroic Good, target for which the young Dream in their dreams that every bow is strung, And, missing, sigh Unfruitful, ...
Oh, some folk think vice-royalty is festive and hilarious, The duties of an A.D.C. are manifold and various, So listen, ...
A heroic story I will unfold, Concerning Jenny Carrister, a heroine bold, Who lived in Australia, at a gold mine ...
'Twas on a Monday morning, and in the year of 1884, That a fire broke out in Bailie Bradford's store, ...
'Twas on the 22nd of March, in the year 1885, That the Arabs rushed like a mountain torrent in full ...
It is the longest night in all the year, Near on the day when the Lord Christ was born; Six ...
Soul O Who shall, from this Dungeon, raise A Soul inslav'd so many wayes? With bolts of Bones, that fetter'd ...
You, that decipher out the Fate Of humane Off-springs from the Skies, What mean these Infants which of late Spring ...
O, for that warning voice, which he, who saw The Apocalypse, heard cry in Heaven aloud, Then when the Dragon, ...
Aye, but she? Your other sister and my other soul Grave Silence, lovelier Than the three loveliest maidens, what of ...
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