The Betrothed (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
"You must choose between me and your cigar." -- BREACH OF PROMISE CASE, CIRCA 1885. Open the old cigar-box, get ...
"You must choose between me and your cigar." -- BREACH OF PROMISE CASE, CIRCA 1885. Open the old cigar-box, get ...
My soul would one day go and seek For roses, and in Julia's cheek A richess of those sweets she ...
When I love, as some have told Love I shall, when I am old, O ye Graces! make me fit ...
(The 110th anniversary of the completion of the "Decline and Fall" at the same hour and place) A spirit seems ...
THERE were two youths of equal age, Wit, station, strength, and parentage; They studied at the self-same schools, And shaped ...
THE three holy kings with their star's bright ray,-- They eat and they drink, but had rather not pay; They ...
(from the Welsh) May they stumble, stage by stage On an endless Pilgrimage Dawn and dusk, mile after mile At ...
The women-folk are like to books,-- Most pleasing to the eye, Whereon if anybody looks He feels disposed to buy. ...
Whenas ye plaisaunt Aperille shoures have washed and purged awaye Ye poysons and ye rheums of earth to make a ...
Because I was content with these poor fields, Low open meads, slender and sluggish streams, And found a home in ...
To the Critic Methinks I see some crooked mimic jeer, And tax my Muse with this fantastic grace, Turning my ...
Love in a humor play'd the prodigal And bade my Senses to a solemn feast; Yet, more to grace the ...
Some man unworthy to be possessor Of old or new love, himself being false or weak, Thought his pain and ...
WHEN that Aprilis, with his showers swoot*, *sweet The drought of March hath pierced to the root, And bathed every ...
PART I 'Tis the middle of night by the castle clock And the owls have awakened the crowing cock; Tu-whit!- ...
i Blustering God, Stamping across the sky With loud swagger, I fear You not. No, though from Your highest heaven ...
What can I give thee back, O liberal And princely giver, who hast brought the gold And purple of thine ...
Indeed this very love which is my boast, And which, when rising up from breast to brow, Doth crown me ...
I We thrill too strangely at the master's touch; We shrink too sadly from the larger self Which for its ...
Take it away, and swallow it yourself. Ha! Look you, there's a rat. Last night there were a dozen on ...
Withal a meagre man was Aaron Stark, -- Cursed and unkempt, shrewd, shrivelled, and morose. A miser was he, with ...
Thousandfold flowers unfetters fragrance. Thousandfold powers dowers Deliverance. All frith flowers adore thine aubade! All Ambrosia audacious attunes along cascade! ...
PART I O! nothing earthly save the ray (Thrown back from flowers) of Beauty's eye, As in those gardens where ...
In Arthur's house whileome was I When happily the time went by In midmost glory of his days. He held ...
The wanton Troopers riding by Have shot my Faun and it will dye. Ungentle men! They cannot thrive To kill ...
Now Morn, her rosy steps in the eastern clime Advancing, sowed the earth with orient pearl, When Adam waked, so ...
As one who in his journey bates at noon, Though bent on speed; so here the Arch-Angel paused Betwixt the ...
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown ...
"What should such fellows as I do, Crawling between earth and heaven?" Here is the phial; here I turn the ...
"So pulse, and pulse, thou rhythmic-hearted Noon That liest, large-limbed, curved along the hills, In languid palpitation, half a-swoon With ...
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