#EnglishWriters
NOW this is the tale of the Coun… To ease the strong of their burden… He sent a word to the peoples, who… That the straw might be counted fa… The Lords of Their Hands assembl…
A tinker out of Bedford, A vagrant oft in quod, A private under Fairfax, A minister of God— Two hundred years and thirty
When, with a pain he desires to ex… Howls himself black in the face, t… And the six-months-old Mother beg… Tummy, or Temper, or Pins– what d… See! At a glance and a touch his…
When the cabin port-holes are dark… Because of the seas outside; When the ship goes wop (with a wig… And the steward falls into the sou… And trunks begin to slide;
Offshore where sea and skyline ble… In rain, the daylight dies; The sullen, shouldering swells att… Night and our sacrifice. Adown the stricken capes no flare—
CITIES and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time’s eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die: But, as new buds put forth
THOUGH all the Dead were all fo… And razed were every tomb, The Worm—the Worm that dieth not Compels Us to our doom. Though all which once was England…
THESE were my companions going f… (For Chil! Look you, for Chil!) Now come I to whistle them the en… (Chil! Vanguards of Chil!) Word they gave me overhead of quar…
“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…
NO DOUBT but ye are the People… Whoso speaks in your presence must… Bowing the head in worship, bendin… Bringing the word well smoothen—su… Fenced by your careful fathers, ri…
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…
I have done mostly what most men d… And pushed it out of my mind; But I can’t forget, if I wanted t… Four—Feet trotting behind. Day after day, the whole day throu…
THEY shall not return to us, the… The eager and whole—hearted whom w… But the men who left them thriftil… Shall they come with years and hon… They shall not return to us; the s…
LAND of our Birth, we pledge to… Our love and toil in the years to… When we are grown and take our pla… As men and women with our race. Father in Heaven who lovest all,
I’VE A HEAD like a concertina:… I’ve a mouth like an old potato, a… But I’ve had my fun o’ the Corp’r… And I’m here in the Clink for a t… With a second—hand overcoat under…