(Mat. Prior)
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AFTER the sack of the City, whe… In the years that the Lights were… Low on the borders of Britain, th… Between the Cliff and the Forest… Stubborn all were his people, a st…
Who gives him the Bath? “I,” said the wet, Rank-Jungle-sweat, “I’ll give him the Bath!” Who’ll sing the psalms?
BY THE Hoof of the Wild Goat u… From the cliff where she lay in th… Fell the Stone To the Tarn where the daylight is… So she fell from the light of the…
When the drums begin to beat Down the street, When the poles are fetched and guy… When the tight-rope’s stretched an… When the dance-girls make salaam,
FULL thirty foot she towered fro… It cost a watch to steer her, and… But, spite all modern notions, I… The only certain packet for the I… Fair held the breeze behind us—’tw…
“NOW this is the price of a stirr… The kneeling doctor said. And syne he bade them take him up, For he saw that the man was dead. They took him up, and they laid hi…
There was a strife ‘twixt man and… Oh, that was at the birth of time! But what befell ’twixt man and mai… Oh, that’s beyond the grip of rhym… 'Twas “Sweet, I must not bide wit…
CITIES and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time’s eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die: But, as new buds put forth
IMPRIMIS he was “broke.” There… His Regiment and, later, took to… Then, having lost the balance of h… “Went Fantee”—joined the people o… Turned three parts Mussulman and…
Nothing in life has been made by m… But it was shown long since to man… Lost as the name of the maker of i… Who received oppression and shame… Hate, avoidance, and scorn in his…
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…
I WENT into a public 'ouse to ge… The publican 'e up an’ sez, “ We… The girls be’ind the bar they laug… I outs into the street again an’ t… O it’s Tommy this, an’ Tommy that…
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…
“Soldier, soldier come from the wa… Why don’t you march with my true l… “We’re fresh from off the ship an’… An’ you’d best go look for a new l… New love! True love!
ENGLAND’S on the anvil– hear t… Clanging from the Severn to the T… Never was a blacksmith like our N… England’s being hammered, hammered… England’s on the anvil! Heavy are…