The Second Voyage (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
We've sent our little Cupids all ashore -- They were frightened, they were tired, they were cold: Our sails of ...
We've sent our little Cupids all ashore -- They were frightened, they were tired, they were cold: Our sails of ...
1918 God rest you, peaceful gentlemen, let nothing you dismay, But--leave your sports a little while--the dead are borne this ...
Er-Heb beyond the Hills of Ao-Safai Bears witness to the truth, and Ao-Safai Hath told the men of Gorukh. Thence ...
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 ...
Now the New Year, reviving last Year's Debt, The Thoughtful Fisher casteth wide his Net; So I with begging Dish ...
The banked oars fell an hundred strong, And backed and threshed and ground, But bitter was the rowers' song As ...
Once red ripple came to land In the golden sunset burning-- Lapped against a maiden's hand, By the ford returning. ...
(From The Jungle Book) Here we go in a flung festoon, Half-way up to the jealous moon! Don't you envy ...
Oh, little did the Wolf-Child care-- When first he planned his home, What City should arise and bear The weight ...
We're marchin' on relief over Injia's sunny plains, A little front o' Christmas-time an' just be'ind the Rains; Ho! get ...
"They" -- Traffics and Discoveries Neither the harps nor the crowns amused, nor the cherubs' dove-winged races-- Holding hands forlornly ...
This ballad appears to refer to one of the exploits of the notorious Paul Jones, the American pirate. It is ...
Away by the lands of the Japanee Where the paper lanterns glow And the crews of all the shipping drink ...
Marching Song of a Roman Legion of the Later Empire Enlarged From "Puck of Pook's Hill" When I left Rome ...
1903 After Boer War Duly with knees that feign to quake-- Bent head and shaded brow,-- Yet once again, for ...
I am the land of their fathers, In me the virtue stays. I will bring back my children, After certain ...
1917 (To Lyde of the Music Halls) What boots it on the Gods to call? Since, answered or unheard, We ...
God of our fathers, known of old -- Lord of our far-flung battle line -- Beneath whose awful hand we ...
1901 Not in the camp his victory lies Or triumph in the market-place, Who is his Nation's sacrifice To turn ...
Peace is declared, and I return To 'Ackneystadt, but not the same; Things 'ave transpired which made me learn The ...
"The House Surgeon"--Actions and Reactions 2 Samuel XIV. 14. If Thought can reach to Heaven, On Heaven let it dwell, ...
If any God should say, "I will restore The world her yesterday Whole as before My Judgment blasted it"--who would ...
The Celt in all his variants from Builth to Ballyhoo, His mental processes are plain--one knows what he will do, ...
Valour and Innocence Have latterly gone hence To certain death by certain shame attended. Envy--ah! even to tears! -- The ...
Brethren, how shall it fare with me When the war is laid aside, If it be proven that I am ...
"The Village That Voted the Earth Was Flat"-- A Diversity of Creatures The Soldier may forget his Sword, The Sailorman ...
The overfaithful sword returns the user His heart's desire at price of his heart's blood. The clamour of the arrogant ...
Prophets have honour all over the Earth, Except in the village where they were born, Where such as knew them ...
By the Laws of the Family Circle 'tis written in letters of brass That only a Colonel from Chatham can ...
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