(Mat. Prior)
#English #Victorians #XIXCentury #XXCentury
I tell this tale, which is strictl… Just by way of convincing you How very little, since things were… Things have altered in building tr… A year ago, come the middle of Ma…
IT IS always a temptation to an… To call upon a neighbour and to sa… “We invaded you last night– we are… Unless you pay us cash to go away.… And that is called asking for Dan…
BLESSÈD was our first age and morning—time. Then were no waies tarren, ne no cars numberen, but each followed his owne playinge—busyness to go about singly or by large interspaces, for ...
Abdhur Rahman, the Durani Chief,… His mercy fills the Khyber hills—… He has taken toll of the North an… And they tell the tale of his char… Before the old Peshawur Gate, whe…
OH, glorious are the guarded heig… Where guardian souls abide— Self—exiled from our gross delight… Above, beyond, outside: An ampler arc their spirit swings—
THE Injian Ocean sets an’ smiles So sof’, so bright, so bloomin’ bl… There aren’t a wave for miles an’… Excep’ the jiggle from the screw. The ship is swep’, the day is done…
If wars were won by feasting, 0r victory by song, Or safety found in sleeping sound, How England would be strong! But honour and dominion
Moralists we, From over the sea, From the land where philosophers p… From the land that produced no Ka… But many Cants with a C.
The Doorkeepers of Zion, They do not always stand In helmet and whole armour, With halberds in their hand; But, being sure of Zion,
BROKE to every known mischance,… By the light sane joy of life, the… Furious in luxury, merciless in to… Terrible with strength that draws… Strictest judge of her own worth,…
NO DOUBT but ye are the People… Whoso speaks in your presence must… Bowing the head in worship, bendin… Bringing the word well smoothen—su… Fenced by your careful fathers, ri…
WHEN by the labour of my ’ands I’ve ’elped to pack a transport ti… With prisoners for foreign lands, I ain’t transported with delight. I know it’s only just an’ right,
A GREAT and glorious thing it i… To learn, for seven years or so, The Lord knows what of that and t… Ere reckoned fit to face the foe — The flying bullet down the Pass,
THEY shall not return to us, the… The eager and whole—hearted whom w… But the men who left them thriftil… Shall they come with years and hon… They shall not return to us; the s…
I WILL let loose against you the… I will call in the Jungle to stam… The roofs shall fade before it, The house—beams shall fall; And the Karela, the bitter Karela…