The Coastwise Lights (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Our brows are bound with spindrift and the weed is on our knees; Our loins are battered 'neath us by ...
Our brows are bound with spindrift and the weed is on our knees; Our loins are battered 'neath us by ...
'My father still reads the dictionary every day. He says your life depends on your power to master words.' Arthur ...
IF Venus in the evening sky Is seen in radiant majesty, If rod-like comets, red as blood, Are 'mongst the ...
IN the drizzling mist, with the snow high-pil'd, In the Winter night, in the forest wild, I heard the wolves ...
I have braved, for want of wild beasts, steel cages, carved my term and nickname on bunks and rafters, lived ...
ADVERTISEMENT "The grand army of the Turks, (in 1715), under the Prime Vizier, to open to themselves a way into ...
BY QUEVEDO REDIVIVUS SUGGESTED BY THE COMPOSITION SO ENTITLED BY THE AUTHOR OF 'WAT TYLER' 'A Daniel come to judgment! ...
O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors: The north is thine; there hast thou built thy dark Deep-founded habitation. Shake not ...
Nudes -- stark and glistening, Yelling in lurid glee. Grinning faces And raging limbs Whirl over the floor one fire. ...
O FLY thee from the shades of night, Where the loud tempests yelling rise; Where horrror wings her sullen flight ...
I. Where freezing wastes of dazzl'ing Snow O'er LEMAN'S Lake rose, tow'ring; The BARON GOLFRE'S Castle strong Was seen, the ...
Deep in th' abyss where frantic horror bides, In thickest mists of vapours fell, Where wily Serpents hissing glare And ...
The sheep were shorn and the wool went down At the time of our local racing; And I'd earned a ...
Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge, Till on the haunting flares ...
'Twas in the year of 1896, and on the 30th of September, Which many people in Aberdeen will long remember; ...
Twas at the camp of Rorke's Drift, and at tea-time, And busily engaged in culinary operations was a private of ...
'Twas in the year of 1889, and in the month of June, Ten thousand people met with a fearful doom, ...
Success to Colonel Baden-Powell and his praises loudly sing, For being so brave in relieving Mafeking, With his gallant little ...
High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth or Ormus and of Ind, Or where the ...
Perplexed and troubled at his bad success The Tempter stood, nor had what to reply, Discovered in his fraud, thrown ...
By Sidney and Clifford Lanier. O wish that's vainer than the plash Of these wave-whimsies on the shore: "Give us ...
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