Song of the Red War-Boat (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Shove off from the wharf-edge! Steady! Watch for a smooth! Give way! If she feels the lop already She'll stand ...
Shove off from the wharf-edge! Steady! Watch for a smooth! Give way! If she feels the lop already She'll stand ...
The banked oars fell an hundred strong, And backed and threshed and ground, But bitter was the rowers' song As ...
(Foot-Service to the Hills) In the name of the Empress of India, make way, O Lords of the Jungle, wherever ...
So we settled it all when the storm was done As comfy as comfy could be; And I was to ...
THROUGH my north window, in the wintry weather,-- My airy oriel on the river shore,-- I watch the sea-fowl as ...
THIS is the ship of pearl, which, poets feign, Sails the unshadowed main,-- The venturous bark that flings On the ...
Foundered March 24. 1878 1 The Eurydice-it concerned thee, O Lord: Three hundred souls, O alas! on board, Some asleep ...
Patience, hard thing! the hard thing but to pray, But bid for, Patience is! Patience who asks Wants war, wants ...
To be put on the train and kissed and given my ticket, Then the station slid backward, the shops and ...
In the mid August, in the second year of my First Polar Expedition, the snow and ice of winter almost ...
"OLD Norbert with the flat blue cap-- A German said to be-- Why let your pipe die on your lap, ...
THE sun had wheeled from Grey's to Dammer's Crest, And still I mused on that Thing imminent: At length I ...
sam swill took a pill went blue ate stew had pains no brains sucked a date too late swallowed stone ...
Look at my knees, That island rising from the steamy seas! The candles a tall lightship; my two hands Are ...
One hour devoted to the pursuit of Beauty And Love is worth a full century of glory Given by the ...
YOUR name with ev'ry pleasure here I place, The last effusions of my muse to grace. O charming Phillis! may ...
To the Pious Memory of the Accomplished Young Lady, Mrs Anne Killigrew, Excellent in the Two Sister-arts of Poesy and ...
The Clock strikes one that just struck two -- Some schism in the Sum -- A Vagabond for Genesis Has ...
If wrecked upon the Shoal of Thought How is it with the Sea? The only Vessel that is shunned Is ...
The Wind begun to rock the Grass With threatening Tunes and low -- He threw a Menace at the Earth ...
I many times thought Peace had come When Peace was far away -- As Wrecked Men -- deem they sight ...
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, And Mourners to and fro Kept treading -- treading -- till it seemed ...
To the maiden The sea was blue meadow, Alive with little froth-people Singing. To the sailor, wrecked, The sea was ...
(A Pharaoh Speaks.) I said, "Why should a pyramid Stand always dully on its base? I'll change it! Let the ...
To exalt, enthrone, establish and defend, To welcome home mankind's mysterious friend Wine, true begetter of all arts that be; ...
And thou wert sad-yet I was not with thee! And thou wert sick, and yet I was not near; Methought ...
The surly cop looked out at me in sleep insect-like. Guess, who was the insect. I'd asked him in my ...
The press of the Spoon River Clarion was wrecked, And I was tarred and feathered, For publishing this on the ...
Meanwhile the new-baptized, who yet remained At Jordan with the Baptist, and had seen Him whom they heard so late ...
Searching my heart for its true sorrow, This is the thing I find to be: That I am weary of ...
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