The Trade (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
They bear, in place of classic names, Letters and numbers on their skin. They play their grisly blindfold games In ...
They bear, in place of classic names, Letters and numbers on their skin. They play their grisly blindfold games In ...
THE BRICKLAYER: I tell this tale, which is strictly true, Just by way of convincing you How very little, since ...
Beyond the path of the outmost sun through utter darkness hurled -- Further than ever comet flared or vagrant star-dust ...
God gave all men all earth to love, But, since our hearts are small Ordained for each one spot should ...
Where the sober-colored cultivator smiles On his byles; Where the cholera, the cyclone, and the crow Come and go; Where ...
1902 When the darkened Fifties dip to the North, And frost and the fog divide the air, And the day ...
Army Reform-.After Boer war "The Army of a Dream"-Traffics and Discoveries. Know this, my brethren, Heaven is clear And all ...
The God of Fair Beginnings Hath prospered here my hand -- The cargoes of my lading, And the keels of ...
BOMBAY Royal and Dower-royal, I the Queen Fronting thy richest sea with richer hands -- A thousand mills roar through ...
1902 Who hath desired the Sea? -- the sight of salt wind-hounded -- The heave and the halt and the ...
This ballad appears to refer to one of the exploits of the notorious Paul Jones, the American pirate. It is ...
Ere the seamer bore him Eastward, Sleary was engaged to marry An attractive girl at Tunbridge, whom he called "my ...
The toad beneath the harrow knows Exactly where eath tooth-point goes. The butterfly upon the road Preaches contentment to that ...
So here's your Empire. No more wine, then? Good. We'll clear the Aides and khitmatgars away. (You'll know that fat ...
The fear was on the cattle, for the gale was on the sea, An' the pens broke up on the ...
King Solomon drew merchantmen, Because of his desire For peacocks, apes, and ivory, From Tarshish unto Tyre, With cedars out ...
I've paid for your sickest fancies; I've humoured your crackedest whim -- Dick, it's your daddy, dying; you've got to ...
The Liner she's a lady, an' she never looks nor 'eeds -- The Man-o'-War's 'er 'usband, an' 'e gives 'er ...
There's a whisper down the field where the year has shot her yield, And the ricks stand grey to the ...
There's a whisper down the field where the year has shot her yield, And the ricks stand gray to the ...
Let us admit it fairly, as a business people should, We have had no end of a lesson: it will ...
1891 There were thirty million English who talked of England's might, There were twenty broken troopers who lacked a bed ...
1918 We're not so old in the Army List, But we're not so young at our trade, For we had ...
When, foot to wheel and back to wind, The helmsman dare not look behind, But hears beyond his compass-light, The ...
Eddi, priest of St. Wilfrid In his chapel at Manhood End, Ordered a midnight service For such as cared to ...
As our mother the Frigate, bepainted and fine, Made play for her bully the Ship of the Line; So we, ...
Once, after long-drawn revel at The Mermaid, He to the overbearing Boanerges Jonson, uttered (if half of it were liquor, ...
Our brows are bound with spindrift and the weed is on our knees; Our loins are battered 'neath us by ...
Cold is for the mistress -- silver for the maid -- Copper for the craftsman cunning at his trade." "Good!" ...
1892 "And there is a Japanese idol at Kamakura" Oye who treated the Narrow Way By Tophet-flare to Judgment Day, ...
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