(Wordsworth)
#English #Victorians #XIXCentury #XXCentury
Now Tomlinson gave up the ghost i… And a Spirit came to his bedside… A Spirit gripped him by the hair… Till he heard as the roar of a rai… Till he heard the roar of the Mil…
I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and… And How and Where and Who. I send them over land and sea,
BEFORE 'TWAS NOT while England’s swor… Put half a world to flight, Nor while their new—built cities b… Secure behind her might;
After the sack of the City, when… 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 from…
BY THE old Moulmein Pagoda, loo… There’s a Burma girl a—settin’, a… For the wind is in the palm—trees,… “Come you back, you British soldi… Come you back to Mandalay,
THE WIND took off with the suns… The fog came up with the tide, When the Witch of the North took… With a little Blue Devil inside. “Sink,” she said, “or swim,” she s…
Now this is the next tale, and it tells how the Camel got his big hump. In the beginning of years, when the world was so new and all, and the Animals were just beginning to work for Ma...
Delilah Aberyswith was a lady– no… With a perfect taste in dresses an… With a thirst for information, and… And a little house in Simla in th… By reason of her marriage to a gen…
“My son,” said the Norman Baron,… be heir To all the broad acres in England… share When he conquered the Saxon at Ha…
Speakin’ in general, I ’ave tried… The ’appy roads that take you o’er… Speakin’ in general, I ’ave found… For such as cannot use one bed too… But must get ’ence, the same as I…
I WILL let loose against you the… I will call in the Jungle to stam… The roofs shall fade before it, The house—beams shall fall; And the Karela, the bitter Karela…
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,
Er-Heb beyond the Hills of Ao-Sa… Bears witness to the truth, and A… Hath told the men of Gorukh. The… Comes westward o’er the peaks to… The story of Bisesa, Armod’s chil…
Once, after long—drawn revel at T… He to the overbearing Boanerges Jonson, uttered (if half of it wer… Blessed be the vintage!) Saying how, at an alehouse under…
WHAT is the song the children si… When doorway lilacs bloom in Spri… And the Schools are loosed, and t… That were deadly earnest when Ear… Hear them chattering, shrill and h…