(Mat. Prior)
#English #Victorians #XIXCentury #XXCentury
We pulled for you when the wind wa… Will you never let us go? We ate bread and onions when you t… The Captains walked up and down t… We fainted with our chins on the o…
Lord, Thou hast made this world b… An’, taught by time, I tak’ it so… From coupler—flange to spindle—gui… Predestination in the stride o’ yo… John Calvin might ha’ forged the…
WHO recalls the twilight and the… (Violet peaks uplifted through the… And the clink of iron teacups and… And the faces of the Sisters with… (Now and not hereafter, while the…
WHEN that great Kings return to… Or Emperors in their pride, Grief of a day shall fill a day, Because its creature died. But we—we reckon not with those
Rome never looks where she treads. Always her heavy hooves fall On our stomachs, our hearts or our… And Rome never heeds when we bawl… Her sentries pass on—that is all,
IN THE Neolithic Age savage war… For food and fame and woolly horse… I was singer to my clan in that di… And I sang of all we fought and f… Yea, I sang as now I sing, when t…
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…
Jubal sang of the Wrath of God And the curse of thistle and thorn —But Tubal got him a pointed rod, And scrabbled the earth for corn. Old —old as that early mould, Young as the sproutin...
They are fools who kiss and tell"… Wisely has the poet sung. Man may hold all sorts of posts If he’ll only hold his tongue. Jenny and Me were engaged, you se…
WHEN the Great Ark, in Vigo Ba… Rode stately through the half—mann… From every ship about her way She heard the mariners entreat— “Before we take the seas again
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.
I’VE NEVER sailed the Amazon, I’ve never reached Brazil; But the Don and Magdalena, They can go there when they will! Yes, weekly from Southampton,
MY father’s father saw it not, And I, belike, shall never come To look on that so—holy spot – That very Rome— Crowned by all Time, all Art, all…
BOANERGES BLITZEN, servant… Is a dismal failure—is a Might—ha… In a luckless moment he discovered… Rise to high position through a re… Boanerges Blitzen argued therefor…
NOT with an outcry to Allah nor… He answered his name at the muster… When the twin anklets were nipped… He brotherly greeted the armourers… Ere the sad dust of the marshalled…