(Mat. Prior)
#English #Victorians #XIXCentury #XXCentury
WE KNOW the Rocket’s upward whi… We know the Boom before the Bust. We know the whistling Wail which… The Stick returning to the Dust. We know how much to take on trust
“Where have you been this while aw… Johnnie, Johnnie?” 'Long with the rest on a picnic la… Johnnie, my Johnnie, aha! They called us out of the barrack-…
“ONCE in so often,” King Solomo… Watching his quarrymen drill the s… “We will club our garlic and wine… And banquet together beneath my T… And all the Brethren shall come t…
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…
BENEATH the deep veranda’s shad… When bats begin to fly, I sit me down and watch—alas!— Another evening die. Blood—red behind the sere ferash
HIS spots are the joy of the Leo… Be clean, for the strength of the… If ye find that the Bullock can t… Ye need not stop work to inform us… Oppress not the cubs of the strang…
You must n’t swim till you’re six… Or your head will be sunk by your… And summer gales and Killer Whale… Are bad for baby seals. Are bad for baby seals, dear rat,
HER HAND was still on her sword… She had not cast her harness of gr… High on her red-splashed charger,… Bright-eyed out of the battle, the… She came to the Old Queen’s prese…
Twenty bridges from Tower to Kew Wanted to know what the River kne… For they were young and the Thame… And this is the tale that the Riv… “I walk my beat before London Tow…
THE ‘eathen in ’is blindness bows… 'E don’t obey no orders unless the… ‘E keeps ’is side—arms awful: ‘e l… An’ then comes up the Regiment an… All along o’ dirtiness, all along…
FROM every quarter of your land They give God thanks who turned a… Death and the needy madman’s hand, Death—fraught, which menaced you t… One school of many made to make
O WOE is me for the merry life I led beyond the Bar, And a treble woe for my winsome wi… That weeps at Shalimar. They have taken away my long jezai…
No hope, no change! The clouds ha… And through the cloud the sullen… Full on the bosom of the tortured… Till Night falls heavy as remembe… That will not suffer sleep or thou…
WHERE first by Eden Tree The Four Great Rivers ran, To each was appointed a Man Her Prince and Ruler to be. But after this was ordained
THERE are four good legs to my… Priests and People and Lords and… I sits on all of 'em fair and squa… And that is reason it don’t break… I won’t trust one leg, nor two, no…
