The Widower (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
For a season there must be pain-- For a little, little space I shall lose the sight of her face, ...
For a season there must be pain-- For a little, little space I shall lose the sight of her face, ...
How shall she know the worship we would do her? The walls are high, and she is very far. How ...
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I've taken my fun where I've found it; I've rouged an' I've ranged in my time; I've 'ad my pickin' ...
The 'eathen in 'is blindness bows down to wood an' stone; 'E don't obey no orders unless they is 'is ...
Take of English earth as much As either hand may rightly clutch. In the taking of it breathe Prayer for ...
I. If It be pleasant to look on, stalled in the packed serai, Does not the Young Man try Its ...
A great and glorious thing it is To learn, for seven years or so, The Lord knows what of that ...
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