(Wordsworth)
#English #Victorians #XIXCentury #XXCentury
BEFORE 'TWAS NOT while England’s swor… Put half a world to flight, Nor while their new—built cities b… Secure behind her might;
SEVEN men from all the world, ba… Rolling down the Ratcliffe Road d… Give the girls another drink ‘fore… We that took the “Bolivar” out ac… We put out from Sunderland loaded…
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…
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…
That which is marred at birth Tim… Nor water out of bitter well make… All evil thing returneth at the en… Or elseway walketh in our blood un… Whereby the more is sorrow in cert…
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,
You couldn’t pack a Broadwood hal… You mustn’t leave a fiddle in the… You couldn’t raft an organ up the… And play it in an Equatorial swam… I travel with the cooking-pots and…
ROSES red and roses white Plucked I for my love’s delight. She would none of all my posies— Bade me gather her blue roses. Half the world I wandered through…
Farewell and adieu to you, Harwic… Farewell and adieu to you, ladies… For we’ve received orders to work… Where we hope in a short time to s… We’ll duck and we’ll dive like lit…
I AM the Most Wise Baviaan, say… ‘Let us melt into the landscape—ju… People have come—in a carriage—cal… Yes, I can go if you take me—Nurs… Let’s go up to the pig—sties and s…
THERE are four good legs to my… Priests and People and Lords and… I sits on all of 'em fair and squa… And that is reason it don’t break… I won’t trust one leg, nor two, no…
THE FEAR was on the cattle, for… An’ the pens broke up on the lower… An’ the lights went out on the low… I had been singin’ to them to keep… For the lower deck is the dangerou…
READ here: This is the story of Evarra—man— Maker of Gods in lands beyond the… Because the city gave him of her g… Because the caravans brought turqu…
ONE moment past our bodies cast No shadow on the plain; Now clear and black they stride ou… And we run home again. In morning—hush, each rock and bus…
Now we are come to our Kingdom, And the State is thus and thus; Our legions wait at the Palace ga… Little it profits us. Now we are come to our Kingdom!