The Undertaker’s Horse (Rudyard Kipling Poems)
The eldest son bestrides him, And the pretty daughter rides him, And I meet him oft o' mornings on the ...
The eldest son bestrides him, And the pretty daughter rides him, And I meet him oft o' mornings on the ...
Troopin', troopin', troopin' to the sea: 'Ere's September come again -- the six-year men are free. O leave the dead ...
1902 When the darkened Fifties dip to the North, And frost and the fog divide the air, And the day ...
This ballad appears to refer to one of the exploits of the notorious Paul Jones, the American pirate. It is ...
Away by the lands of the Japanee Where the paper lanterns glow And the crews of all the shipping drink ...
The Celt in all his variants from Builth to Ballyhoo, His mental processes are plain--one knows what he will do, ...
So here's your Empire. No more wine, then? Good. We'll clear the Aides and khitmatgars away. (You'll know that fat ...
We've drunk to the Queen -- God bless her! -- We've drunk to our mothers' land; We've drunk to our ...
1891 There were thirty million English who talked of England's might, There were twenty broken troopers who lacked a bed ...
1898 Being a translation of the song that was made by a Mohammedanschoolmaster of Bengal Infantry (some time on service ...
Now this is the tale of the Council the German Kaiser decreed, To ease the strong of their burden, to ...
1914-18 The Garden called Gethsemane In Picardy it was, And there the people came to see The English soldiers pass. ...
Above the portico a flag-staff, bearing the Union Jack, remained fluttering in the flames for some time, but ultimately when ...
Truly ye come of The Blood; slower to bless than to ban; Little used to lie down at the bidding ...
Take of English earth as much As either hand may rightly clutch. In the taking of it breathe Prayer for ...
For things we never mention, For Art misunderstood -- For excellent intention That did not turn to good; From ancient ...
There was a row in Silver Street that's near to Dublin Quay, Between an Irish regiment an' English cavalree; It ...
'T was Fultah Fisher's boarding-house, Where sailor-men reside, And there were men of all the ports From Mississip to Clyde, ...
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