What the People Said (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
(June 21st, 1887) By the well, where the bullocks go Silent and blind and slow -- By the field where ...
(June 21st, 1887) By the well, where the bullocks go Silent and blind and slow -- By the field where ...
Horace, BK. V., Ode 3 "Regulus"-- A Diversity of Creatures There are whose study is of smells, And to attentive ...
To the City of Bombay The Cities are full of pride, Challenging each to each -- This from her mountain-side, ...
Now Tomlinson gave up the ghost in his house in Berkeley Square, And a Spirit came to his bedside and ...
1918Being the Words of the Tune Hummed at Her Lathe by Mrs. L. Embsay, Widow The fans and the beltings ...
"The Treasure and the Low"--Puck of Pook's Hills. Where first by Eden Tree The Four Great Rivers ran, To each ...
Hear now the Song of the Dead -- in the North by the torn berg-edges -- They that look still ...
Be well assured that on our side The abiding oceans fight, Though headlong wind and heaping tide Make us their ...
1918 SEVEN Watchmen sitting in a tower, Watching what had come upon mankind, Showed the Man the Glory and the ...
(From The Jungle Book) Here we go in a flung festoon, Half-way up to the jealous moon! Don't you envy ...
Oh, little did the Wolf-Child care-- When first he planned his home, What City should arise and bear The weight ...
God of our fathers, known of old -- Lord of our far-flung battle line -- Beneath whose awful hand we ...
Ay, lay him 'neath the Simla pine -- A fortnight fully to be missed, Behold, we lose our fourth at ...
The Four Archangels, so the legends tell, Raphael, Gabriel, Michael, Azrael, Being first of those to whom the Power was ...
There are three degrees of bliss At the foot of Allah's Throne And the highest place is his Who saves ...
Theodore Roosevelt "The interpreter then called for a man-servant of his, one Great-Heart."--Bunyan's' Pilgrim's Process Concerning brave Captains Our age ...
Imprimis he was "broke." Thereafter left His Regiment and, later, took to drink; Then, having lost the balance of his ...
There's no sense in going further -- it's the edge of cultivation," So they said, and I believed it -- ...
We have another viceroy now, -- those days are dead and done Of Delilah Aberyswith and depraved Ulysses Gunne. Delilah ...
(EDWARD VII.) 1910 Who in the Realm to-day lays down dear life for the sake of a land more dear? ...
To the City of Bombay The Cities are full of pride, Challenging each to each -- This from her mountain-side, ...
The wrecks dissolve above us; their dust drops down from afar -- Down to the dark, to the utter dark, ...
1904(C. F. Rhodes, buried in the Matoppos, April 10, 1902) When that great Kings return to clay, Or Emperors in ...
Ah! What avails the classic bent And what the cultured word, Against the undoctored incident That actually occurred? And what ...
When spring-time flushes the desert grass, Our kafilas wind through the Khyber Pass. Lean are the camels but fat the ...
Ahasuerus Jenkins of the "Operatic Own," Was dowered with a tenor voice of super-Santley tone. His views on equitation were, ...
To the Heavens above us O look and behold The Planets that love us All harnessed in gold! What chariots, ...
God of our fathers, known of old -- Lord of our far-flung battle line -- Beneath whose awful hand we ...
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