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 ...
'Ave you 'eard o' the Widow at Windsor With a hairy gold crown on 'er 'ead? She 'as ships on ...
(Deserters) There is a world outside the one you know, To which for curiousness 'Ell can't compare-- It is the ...
Thy face is far from this our war, Our call and counter-cry, I shall not find Thee quick and kind, ...
(A. D. 1200) Of all the trees that grow so fair, Old England to adorn, Greater are none beneath the ...
Now Tomlinson gave up the ghost in his house in Berkeley Square, And a Spirit came to his bedside and ...
God gave all men all earth to love, But, since our hearts are small Ordained for each one spot should ...
"A Priest in Spite of Himself" "How far is St. Helena from a little child at play!" What makes you ...
Hear now the Song of the Dead -- in the North by the torn berg-edges -- They that look still ...
The God of Fair Beginnings Hath prospered here my hand -- The cargoes of my lading, And the keels of ...
Fair is our lot -- O goodly is our heritage! (Humble ye, my people, and be fearful in your mirth!) ...
Er-Heb beyond the Hills of Ao-Safai Bears witness to the truth, and Ao-Safai Hath told the men of Gorukh. Thence ...
Away by the lands of the Japanee Where the paper lanterns glow And the crews of all the shipping drink ...
This ballad appears to refer to one of the exploits of the notorious Paul Jones, the American pirate. It is ...
You call yourself a man, For all you used to swear, An' Leave me, as you can, My certain shame ...
I've paid for your sickest fancies; I've humoured your crackedest whim -- Dick, it's your daddy, dying; you've got to ...
"And there was no more sea." Thus said The Lord in the Vault above the Cherubim Calling to the Angels ...
(Soudan Expeditionary Force) We've fought with many men acrost the seas, An' some of 'em was brave an' some was ...
This fell when dinner-time was done -- 'Twixt the first an' the second rub -- That oor mon Jock cam' ...
(Spring begins in southern England on the 14th April, on which date the Old Woman lets the Cuckoo out of ...
Now Jones had left his new-wed bride to keep his house in order, And hied away to the Hurrum Hills ...
Cain and Abel were brothers born. (Koop-la! Come along, cows!) One raised cattle and one raised corn. (Koop-la! Come along! ...
(It is not for them to criticize too minutely the methods the Irish followed, though they might deplore some of ...
Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet, Till Earth and Sky stand presently ...
Here come I to my own again, Fed, forgiven and known again, Claimed by bone of my bone again And ...
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