The Wishing-Caps (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
Life's all getting and giving, I've only myself to give. What shall I do for a living? I've only one ...
Life's all getting and giving, I've only myself to give. What shall I do for a living? I've only one ...
For a season there must be pain-- For a little, little space I shall lose the sight of her face, ...
The eldest son bestrides him, And the pretty daughter rides him, And I meet him oft o' mornings on the ...
Thy face is far from this our war, Our call and counter-cry, I shall not find Thee quick and kind, ...
Yearly, with tent and rifle, our careless white men go By the Pass called Muttianee, to shoot in the vale ...
Oh ye who hold the written clue To all save all unwritten things, And, half a league behind, pursue The ...
Once, on a glittering ice-field, ages and ages ago, Ung, a maker of pictures, fashioned an image of snow. Fashioned ...
Army Reform-.After Boer war "The Army of a Dream"-Traffics and Discoveries. Know this, my brethren, Heaven is clear And all ...
1918 SEVEN Watchmen sitting in a tower, Watching what had come upon mankind, Showed the Man the Glory and the ...
(A. D. 1066) I followed my Duke ere I was a lover, To take from England fief and fee; But ...
Speakin' in general, I'ave tried 'em all The 'appy roads that take you o'er the world. Speakin' in general, I'ave ...
Er-Heb beyond the Hills of Ao-Safai Bears witness to the truth, and Ao-Safai Hath told the men of Gorukh. Thence ...
The Word came down to Dives in Torment where he lay: "Our World is full of wickedness, My Children maim ...
So here's your Empire. No more wine, then? Good. We'll clear the Aides and khitmatgars away. (You'll know that fat ...
Here is nothing new nor aught unproven," say the Trumpets, "Many feet have worn it and the road is old ...
There was a strife 'twixt man and maid-- Oh, that was at the birth of time! But what befell 'twixt ...
I know not in Whose hands are laid To empty upon earth From unsuspected ambuscade The very Urns of Mirth; ...
I've paid for your sickest fancies; I've humoured your crackedest whim -- Dick, it's your daddy, dying; you've got to ...
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' ...
When Julius Fabricius, Sub-Prefect of the Weald, In the days of Diocletian owned our Lower River-field, He called to him ...
October, 1918 Across a world where all men grieve And grieving strive the more, The great days range like tides ...
Our Fathers in a wondrous age, Ere yet the Earth was small, Ensured to us a heritage, And doubted not ...
Imprimis he was "broke." Thereafter left His Regiment and, later, took to drink; Then, having lost the balance of his ...
1914-18 The Garden called Gethsemane In Picardy it was, And there the people came to see The English soldiers pass. ...
Above the portico a flag-staff, bearing the Union Jack, remained fluttering in the flames for some time, but ultimately when ...
(EDWARD VII.) 1910 Who in the Realm to-day lays down dear life for the sake of a land more dear? ...
We were all one heart and one race When the Abbey trumpets blew. For a moment's breathing-space We had forgotten ...
The wrecks dissolve above us; their dust drops down from afar -- Down to the dark, to the utter dark, ...
A.D. 980-1016 It is always a temptation to an armed and agile nation To call upon a neighbour and to ...
(Mobile Columns of the Boer War) Out o' the wilderness, dusty an' dry (Time, an' 'igh time to be trekkin' ...
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