Ulster (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
The dark eleventh hour Draws on and sees us sold To every evil power We fought against of old. Rebellion, ...
The dark eleventh hour Draws on and sees us sold To every evil power We fought against of old. Rebellion, ...
(Made Yeomanry towards End of Boer War) Only two African kopjes, Only the cart-tracks that wind Empty and open between ...
(A. D. 1200) Of all the trees that grow so fair, Old England to adorn, Greater are none beneath the ...
The ships destroy us above And ensnare us beneath. We arise, we lie down, and we In the belly of ...
Once, on a glittering ice-field, ages and ages ago, Ung, a maker of pictures, fashioned an image of snow. Fashioned ...
Where's the lamp that Hero lit Once to call Leander home? Equal Time hath shovelled it 'Neath the wrack of ...
Shove off from the wharf-edge! Steady! Watch for a smooth! Give way! If she feels the lop already She'll stand ...
Oh, light was the world that he weighed in his hands! Oh, heavy the tale of his fiefs and his ...
There dwells a wife by the Northern Gate, And a wealthy wife is she; She breeds a breed o' rovin' ...
Oh, little did the Wolf-Child care-- When first he planned his home, What City should arise and bear The weight ...
"They" -- Traffics and Discoveries Neither the harps nor the crowns amused, nor the cherubs' dove-winged races-- Holding hands forlornly ...
1917 (To Lyde of the Music Halls) What boots it on the Gods to call? Since, answered or unheard, We ...
(Foot-Service to the Hills) In the name of the Empress of India, make way, O Lords of the Jungle, wherever ...
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 ...
There was a strife 'twixt man and maid-- Oh, that was at the birth of time! But what befell 'twixt ...
Beneath the deep veranda's shade, When bats begin to fly, I sit me down and watch -- alas! -- Another ...
In Lowestoft a boat was laid, Mark well what I do say! And she was built for the herring-trade, But ...
I met my mates in the morning (and oh, but I am old!) Where roaring on the ledges the summer ...
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 ...
1914 He passed in the very battle-smoke Of the war that he had descried. Three hundred mile of cannon spoke ...
There's a whisper down the field where the year has shot her yield, And the ricks stand gray to the ...
(From The Jungle Book) Now this is the Law of the Jungle -- as old and as true as the ...
My garden blazes brightly with the rose-bush and the peach, And the koil sings above it, in the siris by ...
Now this is the tale of the Council the German Kaiser decreed, To ease the strong of their burden, to ...
To the legion of the lost ones, to the cohort of the damned, To my brethren in their sorrow overseas, ...
Men make them fires on the hearth Each under his roof-tree, And the Four Winds that rule the earth They ...
1930 When the grey geese heard the Fool's tread Too near to where they lay, They lifted neither voice nor ...
Above the portico a flag-staff, bearing the Union Jack, remained fluttering in the flames for some time, but ultimately when ...
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