(Wordsworth)
#English #Victorians #XIXCentury #XXCentury
ALL day long to the judgment—seat The crazed Provincials drew — All day long at their ruler’s feet Howled for the blood of the Jew. Insurrection with one accord
I WAS the staunchest of our flee… Till the sea rose beneath our feet Unheralded, in hatred past all mea… Into his pits he stamped my crew, Buffeted, blinded, bound and threw…
One grief on me is laid Each day of every year, Wherein no soul can aid, Whereof no soul can hear: Whereto no end is seen
There are whose study is of smells… And to attentive schools rehearse How something mixed with something… Makes something worse. Some cultivate in broths impure
MY GARDEN blazes brightly with… And the köil sings above it, in th… From the creeper—covered trellis c… And the blue jay screams and flutt… But the rose has lost its fragranc…
FATHER, Mother, and Me Sister and Auntie say All the people like us are We, And every one else is They. And They live over the sea,
"GO WASH thyself in Jordan —go,… Nay, not for any Prophet will I p… For the banks of curious Jordan a… Commanded and embellished and patr… There rise her timeless capitals o…
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…
WHEN all the world would keep a… Since Truth is seldom friend to a… Men write in fable, as old Æsop di… Jesting at that which none will na… And this they needs must do, or it…
IN A land that the sand overlays—… A multitude ended their days whose… Till they grew drunk and were smit… And of these is a story written: b… When the wine stirred in their hea…
'LESS you want your toes trod of… For the bullocks are walking two b… The byles are walking two by two, And the elephants bring the guns. Ho! Yuss!
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…
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…
BEES! BEES! Hark to your bees! “Hide from your neighbours as much… But all that has happened, to us y… Or else we will give you no honey… A maiden in her glory,
Only two African kopjes, Only the cart-tracks that wind Empty and open between 'em, Only the Transvaal behind; Only an Aldershot column