To Wolcott Balestier (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Beyond the path of the outmost sun through utter darkness hurled -- Further than ever comet flared or vagrant star-dust ...
Beyond the path of the outmost sun through utter darkness hurled -- Further than ever comet flared or vagrant star-dust ...
The ships destroy us above And ensnare us beneath. We arise, we lie down, and we In the belly of ...
Where the sober-colored cultivator smiles On his byles; Where the cholera, the cyclone, and the crow Come and go; Where ...
The Sons of Mary seldom bother, for they have inherited that good part; But the Sons of Martha favour their ...
One from the ends of the earth -- gifts at an open door -- Treason has much, but we, Mother, ...
BOMBAY Royal and Dower-royal, I the Queen Fronting thy richest sea with richer hands -- A thousand mills roar through ...
(A. D. 1066) I followed my Duke ere I was a lover, To take from England fief and fee; But ...
There dwells a wife by the Northern Gate, And a wealthy wife is she; She breeds a breed o' rovin' ...
Er-Heb beyond the Hills of Ao-Safai Bears witness to the truth, and Ao-Safai Hath told the men of Gorukh. Thence ...
Once red ripple came to land In the golden sunset burning-- Lapped against a maiden's hand, By the ford returning. ...
Away by the lands of the Japanee Where the paper lanterns glow And the crews of all the shipping drink ...
I have eaten your bread and salt. I have drunk your water and wine. In deaths ye died I have ...
Through learned and laborious years They set themselves to find Fresh terrors and undreamed-of fears To heap upon mankind. ALl ...
So long as 'neath the Kalka hills The tonga-horn shall ring, So long as down the Solon dip The hard-held ...
We've drunk to the Queen -- God bless her! -- We've drunk to our mothers' land; We've drunk to our ...
1917 They shall not return to us, the resolute, the young, The eager and whole-hearted whom we gave: But the ...
I've paid for your sickest fancies; I've humoured your crackedest whim -- Dick, it's your daddy, dying; you've got to ...
I met my mates in the morning (and oh, but I am old!) Where roaring on the ledges the summer ...
The King has called for priest and cup, The King has taken spur and blade To dub True Thomas a ...
When, foot to wheel and back to wind, The helmsman dare not look behind, But hears beyond his compass-light, The ...
We knew thee of old, Oh divinely restored, By the light of thine eyes And the light of they Sword. ...
1919 As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race, Make my proper prostrations to the Gods of ...
Oh gallant was our galley from her caren steering-wheel To her figurehead of silver and her beak of hammered steel; ...
1896 Mine was the woman to me, darkling I found her: Haling her dumb from the camp, held her and ...
When all the world would keep a matter hid, Since Truth is seldom Friend to any crowd, Men write in ...
Above the portico a flag-staff, bearing the Union Jack, remained fluttering in the flames for some time, but ultimately when ...
The 'eathen in 'is blindness bows down to wood an' stone; 'E don't obey no orders unless they is 'is ...
Love and Death once ceased their strife At the Tavern of Man's Life. Called for wine, and threw -- alas! ...
The strength of twice three thousand horse That seeks the single goal; The line that holds the rending course, The ...
(EDWARD VII.) 1910 Who in the Realm to-day lays down dear life for the sake of a land more dear? ...
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