Wilful Missing (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
(Deserters) There is a world outside the one you know, To which for curiousness 'Ell can't compare-- It is the ...
(Deserters) There is a world outside the one you know, To which for curiousness 'Ell can't compare-- It is the ...
For a season there must be pain-- For a little, little space I shall lose the sight of her face, ...
Oh, glorious are the guarded heights Where guardian souls abide-- Self-exiled from our gross delights-- Above, beyond, outside: An ampler ...
Hurree Chunder Mookerjee, pride of Bow Bazaar, Owner of a native press, "Barrishter-at-Lar," Waited on the Government with a claim ...
They bear, in place of classic names, Letters and numbers on their skin. They play their grisly blindfold games In ...
THE BRICKLAYER: I tell this tale, which is strictly true, Just by way of convincing you How very little, since ...
Now Tomlinson gave up the ghost in his house in Berkeley Square, And a Spirit came to his bedside and ...
I closed and drew for my love's sake That now is false to me, And I slew the Reiver of ...
BOMBAY Royal and Dower-royal, I the Queen Fronting thy richest sea with richer hands -- A thousand mills roar through ...
Away by the lands of the Japanee Where the paper lanterns glow And the crews of all the shipping drink ...
Prophets have honour all over the Earth, Except in the village where they were born, Where such as knew them ...
A much-discerning Public hold The Singer generally sings And prints and sells his past for gold. Whatever I may here ...
1917 They shall not return to us, the resolute, the young, The eager and whole-hearted whom we gave: But the ...
Beneath the deep veranda's shade, When bats begin to fly, I sit me down and watch -- alas! -- Another ...
The King has called for priest and cup, The King has taken spur and blade To dub True Thomas a ...
There are three degrees of bliss At the foot of Allah's Throne And the highest place is his Who saves ...
Through the Plagues of Egyp' we was chasin' Arabi, Gettin' down an' shovin' in the sun; An' you might 'ave ...
Oh gallant was our galley from her caren steering-wheel To her figurehead of silver and her beak of hammered steel; ...
There was no one like 'im, 'Orse or Foot, Nor any o' the Guns I knew; An' because it was ...
I have been given my charge to keep-- Well have I kept the same! Playing with strife for the most ...
1914-18 Farewell and adieu to you, Harwich Ladies, Farewell and adieu to you, ladies ashore! For we've received orders to ...
1911 When the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride, He shouts to scare the monster, who will often ...
Truly ye come of The Blood; slower to bless than to ban; Little used to lie down at the bidding ...
(EDWARD VII.) 1910 Who in the Realm to-day lays down dear life for the sake of a land more dear? ...
"What are the bugles blowin' for?" said Files-on-Parade. "To turn you out, to turn you out", the Colour-Sergeant said. "What ...
Me that 'ave been what I've been -- Me that 'ave gone where I've gone -- Me that 'ave seen ...
1904(C. F. Rhodes, buried in the Matoppos, April 10, 1902) When that great Kings return to clay, Or Emperors in ...
Eyes aloft, over dangerous places, The children follow the butterflies, And, in the sweat of their upturned faces, Slash with ...
You may talk o' gin and beer When you're quartered safe out 'ere, An' you're sent to penny-fights an' Aldershot ...
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