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, ...
Beyond the path of the outmost sun through utter darkness hurled -- Further than ever comet flared or vagrant star-dust ...
One from the ends of the earth -- gifts at an open door -- Treason has much, but we, Mother, ...
Fair is our lot -- O goodly is our heritage! (Humble ye, my people, and be fearful in your mirth!) ...
1903 (South African War ended, May, 1902) Here, where my fresh-turned furrows run, And the deep soil glistens red, I ...
We were taken from the ore-bed and the mine, We were melted in the furnace and the pit-- We were ...
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 ...
God of our fathers, known of old -- Lord of our far-flung battle line -- Beneath whose awful hand we ...
By the Laws of the Family Circle 'tis written in letters of brass That only a Colonel from Chatham can ...
Ere the seamer bore him Eastward, Sleary was engaged to marry An attractive girl at Tunbridge, whom he called "my ...
For the sake of him who showed One wise Frog the Jungle-Road, Keep the Law the Man-Pack make For thy ...
A much-discerning Public hold The Singer generally sings And prints and sells his past for gold. Whatever I may here ...
Here is nothing new nor aught unproven," say the Trumpets, "Many feet have worn it and the road is old ...
The Law whereby my lady moves Was never Law to me, But 'tis enough that she approves Whatever Law it ...
One moment past our bodies cast No shadow on the plain; Now clear and black they stride our track, And ...
By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin' eastward to the sea, There's a Burma girl a-settin', and I know she thinks ...
Jane Austen Beecher Stowe de Rouse Was good beyond all earthly need; But, on the other hand, her spouse Was ...
"As easy as A B C"--A Diversity of Creatures" Whether the State can loose and bind In Heaven as well ...
The Four Archangels, so the legends tell, Raphael, Gabriel, Michael, Azrael, Being first of those to whom the Power was ...
The King has called for priest and cup, The King has taken spur and blade To dub True Thomas a ...
(From The Jungle Book) Now this is the Law of the Jungle -- as old and as true as the ...
1898 Being a translation of the song that was made by a Mohammedanschoolmaster of Bengal Infantry (some time on service ...
When Julius Fabricius, Sub-Prefect of the Weald, In the days of Diocletian owned our Lower River-field, He called to him ...
1915 Whence comest thou, Gehazi, So reverend to behold, In scarlet and in ermines And chain of England's gold?" "From ...
Read here: This is the story of Evarra -- man -- Maker of Gods in lands beyond the sea. Because ...
Truly ye come of The Blood; slower to bless than to ban; Little used to lie down at the bidding ...
1918 This is the State above the Law. The State exists for the State alone." [This is a gland at ...
As our mother the Frigate, bepainted and fine, Made play for her bully the Ship of the Line; So we, ...
Help for a patriot distressed, a spotless spirit hurt, Help for an honourable clan sore trampled in the dirt! From ...
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