Ballade Of Modest Confession (Hilaire Belloc Poems)
My reading is extremely deep and wide;And as our modern education goes-Unique I think, and skilfully appliedTo Art and Industry ...
My reading is extremely deep and wide;And as our modern education goes-Unique I think, and skilfully appliedTo Art and Industry ...
My dam was a mustang white and proud,My sire was as black as a thunder cloud;I was foaled on the ...
I have inheritedMy mother's nature,Sensitive to light,By any strong wind led,Loving each living creature,And from my father featureIn eye alert ...
Dashing through the snowIn a one-horse open sleighO'er the fields we goLaughing all the way.Bells on bob-tail ringMaking spirits brightWhat ...
I was alone with a chair on a plainWhich lost itself in an empty horizon.The plain was flawlessly paved.Nothing, absolutely ...
When I was young and herdit sheepI read auld tales o' Wallace wight;My held was fou o' sangs and threipO' ...
All the night through I drankSleep like water or cool cider;Life flowed over and I sankDown below the night of ...
To Mrs. WeigallInto the stricken house who steals on quiet feet And sudden brings the sunshine it used to wear?Whose is ...
Society has good intentions Bureaucracy is like a friend5years ago - other furies other losses -America'strying to control the uncontrollable ...
Over the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go; The horse knows the way To carry the sleigh Through the white ...
Someone across the crowded room says'Radio Luxemburg'and it's like hearing your lifethrough the screech and moanof wireless valves.Were you really ...
_It's "Gallop and go!" and "Slow, now, slow!" With every man in this life below-- But the things of this world are ...
The sunburnt ---- stockman stoodAnd, in a dismal ---- mood,Apostrophized his ---- cuddy;'The ---- nag's no ---- good,He couldn't earn ...
At five on a dewy morning, Before the blazing day,To be up and off on a high-mettled horse,All care and danger ...
My life — to Discontent a prey —Is in the sere and yellow leaf.'Tis vain for happiness to pray:No solace ...
Barefooted boys scud up the street Or skurry under sheltering sheds;And schoolgirl faces, pale and sweet, Gleam from the shawls about their ...
O have you seen my fairy steed?His eyes are wild, his mane is white,He feeds upon an elfin weedIn cool ...
The valiant-hearted,Riding alone on Scarlet Hare,Out of the gates of Ch'in,To weep at Gold Grain MoundBy funereal trees.Rebellion in the ...
--Like a great river, toward the rising sun Broad Hellespont is flowing: far beyond, Over a land of never--dying names, Tower the brows ...
Womanhod wanton ye want.Youre medelyng mastres is manerles.Plente of yll of goodnes skant.Ye rayll at ryot recheles.To prayse youre porte ...
TO these whom death again did wedThis grave 's the second marriage-bed.For though the hand of Fate could force'Twixt soul ...
THEY SAY he was thrown and run over, But that is sheer nonsense, of course:I taught him to ride when a ...
God gave the horse for man to ride,And steel wherewith to fight,And wine to swell his soul with prideAnd women ...
"Wisha, what is the matter with Jim, I dunno?Is he right in the mind for this last week or so? Or ...
Hands! Gentle Hands!When the Field at covert stands,When your four-rear-old is sweating,Foamed and fidgety and frettingAs a stray hound jumps ...
THE birds came to tell Siegfried a story,A story of the woods out of a tree:How the ring was fairyAnd ...
The beautiful, the fair, the elegant,Is that which pleases us, says Kant,Without a thought of interest or advantage.I used to ...
The beautiful, the fair, the elegant,Is that which pleases us, says Kant,Without a thought of interest or advantage.I used to ...
ALOOF from his tribeOn the elm-tree's top,A jackdaw perchedA hand-reach up.Silent he satOn the branch, nor stirred,And I saw m ...
"News has just come in from Prussia: Saddle up your horse!Knights are heading for our country With a mighty force.Don't you worry, ...
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