When Earth’s Last Picture Is Painted (Rudyard Kipling Poems)
When Earth's last picture is painted and the tubes are twisted and dried, When the oldest colours have faded, and ...
When Earth's last picture is painted and the tubes are twisted and dried, When the oldest colours have faded, and ...
Oh, glorious are the guarded heights Where guardian souls abide-- Self-exiled from our gross delights-- Above, beyond, outside: An ampler ...
A fool there was and he mad his prayer (Even as you and I!) To a rag and a bone ...
They bear, in place of classic names, Letters and numbers on their skin. They play their grisly blindfold games In ...
Potiphar Gubbins, C.E. Stands at the top of the tree; And I muse in my bed on the reasons that ...
Shove off from the wharf-edge! Steady! Watch for a smooth! Give way! If she feels the lop already She'll stand ...
As I was spittin' into the Ditch aboard o' the Crocodile, I seed a man on a man-o'-war got up ...
Be well assured that on our side The abiding oceans fight, Though headlong wind and heaping tide Make us their ...
1903 (South African War ended, May, 1902) Here, where my fresh-turned furrows run, And the deep soil glistens red, I ...
Smokin' my pipe on the mountings, sniffin' the mornin' cool, I walks in my old brown gaiters along o' my ...
When the Waters were dried an' the Earth did appear, ("It's all one," says the Sapper), The Lord He created ...
"Let us now praise famous men"-- Men of little showing-- For their work continueth, And their work continueth, Broad and ...
Away by the lands of the Japanee Where the paper lanterns glow And the crews of all the shipping drink ...
So here's your Empire. No more wine, then? Good. We'll clear the Aides and khitmatgars away. (You'll know that fat ...
"Below the Mill Dam" --Traffics and Discoveries Thrones, Powers, Dominions, Peoples, Kings, Are changing 'neath our hand. Our fathers also ...
So long as 'neath the Kalka hills The tonga-horn shall ring, So long as down the Solon dip The hard-held ...
1917 They shall not return to us, the resolute, the young, The eager and whole-hearted whom we gave: But the ...
If you stop to find out what your wages will be And how they will clothe and feed you, Willie, ...
The men that fought at Minden, they was rookies in their time -- So was them that fought at Waterloo! ...
1895 I the Neolithic Age savage warfare did I wage For food and fame and woolly horses' pelt. I was ...
"For here lay the excellent wisdom of him that built Mansoul, thatthe walls could never be broken down nor hurt ...
There's a widow in sleepy Chester Who weeps for her only son; There's a grave on the Pabeng River, A ...
The rain it rains without a stay In the hills above us, in the hills; And presently the floods break ...
The 'eathen in 'is blindness bows down to wood an' stone; 'E don't obey no orders unless they is 'is ...
(EDWARD VII.) 1910 Who in the Realm to-day lays down dear life for the sake of a land more dear? ...
As our mother the Frigate, bepainted and fine, Made play for her bully the Ship of the Line; So we, ...
Help for a patriot distressed, a spotless spirit hurt, Help for an honourable clan sore trampled in the dirt! From ...
"The Mother Hive"-- Actions and Reactions A Farmer of the Augustan Age Perused in Virgil's golden page The story of ...
("Saint Proxed's ever was the Church for peace") If down here I chance to die, Solemnly I beg you take ...
Seven men from all the world, back to Docks again, Rolling down the Ratcliffe Road drunk and raising Cain: Give ...
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