With Scindia to Delphi (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
More than a hundred years ago, in a great battle fought near Delhi, an Indian Prince rode fifty miles after ...
More than a hundred years ago, in a great battle fought near Delhi, an Indian Prince rode fifty miles after ...
One man in a thousand, Solomon says, Will stick more close than a brother. And it's worth while seeking him ...
1903 Lived a woman wonderful, (May the Lord amend her!) Neither simple, kind, nor true, But her Pagan beauty drew ...
"A Priest in Spite of Himself" "How far is St. Helena from a little child at play!" What makes you ...
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' ...
Er-Heb beyond the Hills of Ao-Safai Bears witness to the truth, and Ao-Safai Hath told the men of Gorukh. Thence ...
"The House Surgeon"--Actions and Reactions 2 Samuel XIV. 14. If Thought can reach to Heaven, On Heaven let it dwell, ...
See you the ferny ride that steals Into the oak-woods far? O that was whence they hewed the keels That ...
Your jar of Virginny Will cost you a guinea, Which you reckon too much by five shillings or ten; But ...
For the sake of him who showed One wise Frog the Jungle-Road, Keep the Law the Man-Pack make For thy ...
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 ...
I met my mates in the morning (and oh, but I am old!) Where roaring on the ledges the summer ...
If you've ever stole a pheasant-egg be'ind the keeper's back, If you've ever snigged the washin' from the line, If ...
Twelve hundred million men are spread About this Earth, and I and You Wonder, when You and I are dead, ...
When Julius Fabricius, Sub-Prefect of the Weald, In the days of Diocletian owned our Lower River-field, He called to him ...
1918 We're not so old in the Army List, But we're not so young at our trade, For we had ...
There's a widow in sleepy Chester Who weeps for her only son; There's a grave on the Pabeng River, A ...
Imprimis he was "broke." Thereafter left His Regiment and, later, took to drink; Then, having lost the balance of his ...
1919 As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race, Make my proper prostrations to the Gods of ...
Oh gallant was our galley from her caren steering-wheel To her figurehead of silver and her beak of hammered steel; ...
1896 Mine was the woman to me, darkling I found her: Haling her dumb from the camp, held her and ...
There's no sense in going further -- it's the edge of cultivation," So they said, and I believed it -- ...
Eddi, priest of St. Wilfrid In his chapel at Manhood End, Ordered a midnight service For such as cared to ...
Cain and Abel were brothers born. (Koop-la! Come along, cows!) One raised cattle and one raised corn. (Koop-la! Come along! ...
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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