#English #Victorians #XIXCentury #XXCentury
The child of Mary Queen of Scots… A shifty mother’s shiftless son, Bred up among intrigues and plots, Learnèd in all things, wise in non… Ungainly, babbling, wasteful, weak…
THEY shut the road through the w… Seventy years ago. Weather and rain have undone it ag… And now you would never know There was once a road through the…
BEFORE 'TWAS NOT while England’s swor… Put half a world to flight, Nor while their new—built cities b… Secure behind her might;
TAKE up the White Man’s burden– Send forth the best ye breed— Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives’ need; To wait in heavy harness
“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!
THIS is the end whereto men toil… Before thy coachman guessed his fa… How thou shouldst leave thy ’scutc… On that new wheel which is the oil… To see the England Shakespeare sa…
WE HAVE no heart for the fishin… All that our fathers taught us of… All that our own hearts bid us bel… There is no proof in the bread we… Look you, our foreshore stretches…
She dropped the bar, she shot the… For she heard a whimper under the… The fresh flame comforted the hut… And the Only Son lay down again a… The last ash fell from the withere…
I turned—Heaven knows we women tu… To broken reeds, mistaken so for p… That shame forbids confession—a ha… (The wrong one, said the agent aft… And so flung clean across your En…
Brethren, how shall it fare with m… When the war is laid aside, If it be proven that I am he For whom a world has died? If it be proven that all my good,
BUY my English posies Kent and Surrey may Violets of the Undercliff Wet with Channel spray; Cowslips from a Devon combe
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…
When I was a King and a Mason —a… I cleared me ground for a Palace… I decreed and dug down to my level… I came on the wreck of a Palace s… There was no worth in the fashion…
They christened my brother of old— And a saintly name he bears— They gave him his place to hold At the head of the belfry—stairs, Where the minster—towers stand
“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!