With Scindia to Delphi (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
More than a hundred years ago, in a great battle fought near Delhi, an Indian Prince rode fifty miles after ...
More than a hundred years ago, in a great battle fought near Delhi, an Indian Prince rode fifty miles after ...
Not in the thick of the fight, Not in the press of the odds, Do the heroes come to their ...
Thy face is far from this our war, Our call and counter-cry, I shall not find Thee quick and kind, ...
Once, on a glittering ice-field, ages and ages ago, Ung, a maker of pictures, fashioned an image of snow. Fashioned ...
1902 Who hath desired the Sea? -- the sight of salt wind-hounded -- The heave and the halt and the ...
Er-Heb beyond the Hills of Ao-Safai Bears witness to the truth, and Ao-Safai Hath told the men of Gorukh. Thence ...
When the Waters were dried an' the Earth did appear, ("It's all one," says the Sapper), The Lord He created ...
"They" -- Traffics and Discoveries Neither the harps nor the crowns amused, nor the cherubs' dove-winged races-- Holding hands forlornly ...
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1917 (To Lyde of the Music Halls) What boots it on the Gods to call? Since, answered or unheard, We ...
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We've drunk to the Queen -- God bless her! -- We've drunk to our mothers' land; We've drunk to our ...
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 ...
The King has called for priest and cup, The King has taken spur and blade To dub True Thomas a ...
Our Fathers in a wondrous age, Ere yet the Earth was small, Ensured to us a heritage, And doubted not ...
The rain it rains without a stay In the hills above us, in the hills; And presently the floods break ...
1911 When the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride, He shouts to scare the monster, who will often ...
Eyes aloft, over dangerous places, The children follow the butterflies, And, in the sweat of their upturned faces, Slash with ...
Abdhur Rahman, the Durani Chief, of him is the story told. His mercy fills the Khyber hills -- his grace ...
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