The Naulahka (Rudyard Kipling Poem)
There was a strife 'twixt man and maid-- Oh, that was at the birth of time! But what befell 'twixt ...
There was a strife 'twixt man and maid-- Oh, that was at the birth of time! But what befell 'twixt ...
The fear was on the cattle, for the gale was on the sea, An' the pens broke up on the ...
1914-18 Have you news of my boy Jack?" Not this tide. "When d'you think that he'll come back?" Not with ...
The Law whereby my lady moves Was never Law to me, But 'tis enough that she approves Whatever Law it ...
My New-Cut ashlar takes the light Where crimson-blank the windows flare. By my own work before the night, Great Overseer, ...
I go to concert, party, ball -- What profit is in these? I sit alone against the wall And strive ...
One moment past our bodies cast No shadow on the plain; Now clear and black they stride our track, And ...
There was Rundle, Station Master, An' Beazeley of the Rail, An' 'Ackman, Commissariat, An' Donkin' o' the Jail; An' Blake, ...
If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would ...
The Song of Mowgli -- I, Mowgli, am singing. Let the jungle listen to the things I have done. Shere ...
I will let loose against you the fleet-footed vines-- I will call in the Jungle to stamp out your lines! ...
I sent a message to my dear -- A thousand leagues and more to Her -- The dumb sea-levels thrilled ...
Beneath the deep veranda's shade, When bats begin to fly, I sit me down and watch -- alas! -- Another ...
There runs a road by Merrow Down-- A grassy track to-day it is-- An hour out Guildford town, Above the ...
1917 They shall not return to us, the resolute, the young, The eager and whole-hearted whom we gave: But the ...
Dawn off the Foreland--the young flood making Jumbled and short and steep-- Black in the hollows and bright where it's ...
You call yourself a man, For all you used to swear, An' Leave me, as you can, My certain shame ...
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! ...
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 ...
Boanerges Blitzen, servant of the Queen, Is a dismal failure -- is a Might-have-been. In a luckless moment he discovered ...
By the old Moulmein Pagoda, lookin' eastward to the sea, There's a Burma girl a-settin', and I know she thinks ...
'Less you want your toes trod of you'd better get back at once, For the bullocks are walking two by ...
Jane Austen Beecher Stowe de Rouse Was good beyond all earthly need; But, on the other hand, her spouse Was ...
The bachelor 'e fights for one As joyful as can be; But the married man don't call it fun, Because ...
In Lowestoft a boat was laid, Mark well what I do say! And she was built for the herring-trade, But ...
I met my mates in the morning (and oh, but I am old!) Where roaring on the ledges the summer ...
"As easy as A B C"--A Diversity of Creatures" Whether the State can loose and bind In Heaven as well ...
1895 There's a Legion that never was listed, That carries no colours or crest, But, split in a thousand detachments, ...
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