The White Man’s Burden (Rudyard Kipling Poems)
Take up the White man's burden -- Send forth the best ye breed -- Go bind your sons to exile ...
Take up the White man's burden -- Send forth the best ye breed -- Go bind your sons to exile ...
June No hope, no change! The clouds have shut us in, And through the cloud the sullen Sun strikes down ...
Thy face is far from this our war, Our call and counter-cry, I shall not find Thee quick and kind, ...
Will you conquer my heart with your beauty; my sould going out from afar? Shall I fall to your hand ...
Now Tomlinson gave up the ghost in his house in Berkeley Square, And a Spirit came to his bedside and ...
1902 When the darkened Fifties dip to the North, And frost and the fog divide the air, And the day ...
How shall she know the worship we would do her? The walls are high, and she is very far. How ...
Ere Mor the Peacock flutters, ere the Monkey People cry, Ere Chil the Kite swoops down a furlong sheer, Through ...
Oh, light was the world that he weighed in his hands! Oh, heavy the tale of his fiefs and his ...
We were taken from the ore-bed and the mine, We were melted in the furnace and the pit-- We were ...
There dwells a wife by the Northern Gate, And a wealthy wife is she; She breeds a breed o' rovin' ...
1918 God rest you, peaceful gentlemen, let nothing you dismay, But--leave your sports a little while--the dead are borne this ...
(From The Jungle Book) Here we go in a flung festoon, Half-way up to the jealous moon! Don't you envy ...
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 ...
Your jar of Virginny Will cost you a guinea, Which you reckon too much by five shillings or ten; But ...
Ay, lay him 'neath the Simla pine -- A fortnight fully to be missed, Behold, we lose our fourth at ...
So here's your Empire. No more wine, then? Good. We'll clear the Aides and khitmatgars away. (You'll know that fat ...
So long as 'neath the Kalka hills The tonga-horn shall ring, So long as down the Solon dip The hard-held ...
The fear was on the cattle, for the gale was on the sea, An' the pens broke up on the ...
My New-Cut ashlar takes the light Where crimson-blank the windows flare. By my own work before the night, Great Overseer, ...
The Song of Mowgli -- I, Mowgli, am singing. Let the jungle listen to the things I have done. Shere ...
I've paid for your sickest fancies; I've humoured your crackedest whim -- Dick, it's your daddy, dying; you've got to ...
There's a whisper down the field where the year has shot her yield, And the ricks stand grey to the ...
The Four Archangels, so the legends tell, Raphael, Gabriel, Michael, Azrael, Being first of those to whom the Power was ...
There's a whisper down the field where the year has shot her yield, And the ricks stand gray to the ...
1891 There were thirty million English who talked of England's might, There were twenty broken troopers who lacked a bed ...
The King has called for priest and cup, The King has taken spur and blade To dub True Thomas a ...
The earth is full of anger, The seas are dark with wrath, The Nations in their harness Go up against ...
Now this is the tale of the Council the German Kaiser decreed, To ease the strong of their burden, to ...
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