(Mat. Prior)
#English #Victorians #XIXCentury #XXCentury
Across a world where all men grieve And grieving strive the more, The great days range like tides and leave Our dead on every shore. Heavy the load we undergo, And our own hands prepare...
WINDS of the World, give answer… And what should they know of Engl… The poor little street—bred people… They are lifting their heads in th… Must we borrow a clout from the B…
“GAY go up and gay go down To ring the Bells of London Town… When London Town’s asleep in bed You’ll hear the Bells ring overhe… In excelsis gloria!
We knit a riven land to strength b… We drove the road for all men’s fe… We cleared the waste of force and… And whereso’er that will was good,… The Wisdom of the West is theirs—…
A WANDERER from East to West, From Mandalay to Matheran, By itch of loaferdom possess, I scour the plains of Hindustan. Dismissed the fragrant, gariwân, (…
Jelaludin Muhammed Akbar, Guardi… Moved his standards out of Delhi… Where a mosque was to be builded,… And Munim Khan, his Viceroy, sli… High as Hope upsheered her out—wo…
OR ever the battered liners sank With their passengers to the dark, I was head of a Walworth Bank, And you were a grocer’s clerk. I was a dealer in stocks and share…
You couldn’t pack a Broadwood hal… You mustn’t leave a fiddle in the… You couldn’t raft an organ up the… And play it in an Equatorial swam… I travel with the cooking-pots and…
THERE’S a pasture in a valley w… And a Herd lies down and ruminate… Where the pheasant rules the nooni… And the war—cries of our world die… Here I cast aside the burden that…
GOD gave all men all earth to lov… But since our hearts are small, Ordained for each one spot should… Belovèd over all; That, as He watched Creation’s bi…
THE ROAD to En—dor is easy to… For Mother or yearning Wife. There, it is sure, we shall meet o… As they were even in life. Earth has not dreamed of the bless…
Me that 'ave been what I’ve been… Me that 'ave gone where I’ve gone… Me that 'ave seen what I’ve seen… 'Ow can I ever take on With awful old England again,
WITH those that bred, with those… He had no part whose hands were cl… But subtle, strong, and stubborn,… To a lost cause, and knew the gift… Later shall rise a people, sane an…
SEVEN men from all the world, ba… Rolling down the Ratcliffe Road d… Give the girls another drink ‘fore… We that took the “Bolivar” out ac… We put out from Sunderland loaded…
OLD Horn to All Atlantic said: (A—hay O! To me O!) Now where did Frankie learn his t… For he ran me down with a three—re… (All round the Horn!)