Wilful Missing (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
(Deserters) There is a world outside the one you know, To which for curiousness 'Ell can't compare-- It is the ...
(Deserters) There is a world outside the one you know, To which for curiousness 'Ell can't compare-- It is the ...
Beyond the path of the outmost sun through utter darkness hurled -- Further than ever comet flared or vagrant star-dust ...
One man in a thousand, Solomon says, Will stick more close than a brother. And it's worth while seeking him ...
The Sons of Mary seldom bother, for they have inherited that good part; But the Sons of Martha favour their ...
"A Priest in Spite of Himself" "How far is St. Helena from a little child at play!" What makes you ...
1899 Now, this is the cup the White Men drink When they go to right a wrong, And that is ...
I was Lord of Cities very sumptuously builded. Seven roaring Cities paid me tribute from far. Ivory their outposts were--the ...
One from the ends of the earth -- gifts at an open door -- Treason has much, but we, Mother, ...
Oh, light was the world that he weighed in his hands! Oh, heavy the tale of his fiefs and his ...
As I was spittin' into the Ditch aboard o' the Crocodile, I seed a man on a man-o'-war got up ...
Speakin' in general, I'ave tried 'em all The 'appy roads that take you o'er the world. Speakin' in general, I'ave ...
We were taken from the ore-bed and the mine, We were melted in the furnace and the pit-- We were ...
The banked oars fell an hundred strong, And backed and threshed and ground, But bitter was the rowers' song As ...
1901 Not in the camp his victory lies Or triumph in the market-place, Who is his Nation's sacrifice To turn ...
Brethren, how shall it fare with me When the war is laid aside, If it be proven that I am ...
If any God should say, "I will restore The world her yesterday Whole as before My Judgment blasted it"--who would ...
The Word came down to Dives in Torment where he lay: "Our World is full of wickedness, My Children maim ...
(Foot-Service to the Hills) In the name of the Empress of India, make way, O Lords of the Jungle, wherever ...
Through learned and laborious years They set themselves to find Fresh terrors and undreamed-of fears To heap upon mankind. ALl ...
"These were never your true love's eyes. Why do you feign that you love them? You that broke from their ...
We've drunk to the Queen -- God bless her! -- We've drunk to our mothers' land; We've drunk to our ...
King Solomon drew merchantmen, Because of his desire For peacocks, apes, and ivory, From Tarshish unto Tyre, With cedars out ...
I've paid for your sickest fancies; I've humoured your crackedest whim -- Dick, it's your daddy, dying; you've got to ...
1895 There's a Legion that never was listed, That carries no colours or crest, But, split in a thousand detachments, ...
The King has called for priest and cup, The King has taken spur and blade To dub True Thomas a ...
October, 1918 Across a world where all men grieve And grieving strive the more, The great days range like tides ...
"Farewell, Romance!" the Cave-men said; "With bone well carved he went away, Flint arms the ignoble arrowhead, And jasper tips ...
1895 I the Neolithic Age savage warfare did I wage For food and fame and woolly horses' pelt. I was ...
Our Fathers in a wondrous age, Ere yet the Earth was small, Ensured to us a heritage, And doubted not ...
"For here lay the excellent wisdom of him that built Mansoul, thatthe walls could never be broken down nor hurt ...
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