(Wordsworth)
#English #Victorians #XIXCentury #XXCentury
Across a world where all men grieve And grieving strive the more, The great days range like tides and leave Our dead on every shore. Heavy the load we undergo, And our own hands prepare...
PETROLIO, vaunting his Mercede… Vows she can cover eighty miles an… I tried the car of old and know sh… But dare he ever make her? Ask hi…
I’VE taken my fun where I’ve fou… I’ve rogued an’ I’ve ranged in my… I’ve 'ad my pickin’ o’ sweethearts… An’ four o’ the lot was prime. One was an 'arf—caste widow,
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…
Old Mother Laidinwool had nigh tw… She heard the hops was doing well,… For said she: “The lads I’ve… They’re bound to be at hopping an… Let me up and go
“Where have you been this while aw… Johnnie, Johnnie?” 'Long with the rest on a picnic la… Johnnie, my Johnnie, aha! They called us out of the barrack-…
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…
DAWN OFF the Foreland– the you… Jumbled and short and steep— Black in the hollows and bright wh… Awkward water to sweep. “Mines reported in the fairway,
HEH! Walk her round. Heave, ah h… Over, snatch her over, there, and… Loose all sail, and brace your yar… Ready jib to pay her off and heave… Well, ah fare you well; we can sta…
NOW there is nothing wrong with m… Except—I think it’s called T.B. And that is why I have to lay Out in the garden all the day. Our garden is not very wide,
“THERE’S no sense in going furt… So they said, and I believed it–… Built my barns and strung my fence… Tucked away below the foothills wh… Till a voice, as bad as Conscienc…
The first time that Peter denied… He shrank from the cudgel, the sco… But followed far off to see what t… Till the cock crew—till the cock c… After Gethsemane, till the cock c…
THERE is a world outside the one… To which for curiousness ’Ell can… It is the place where “wilful—miss… As we can testify, for we are ther… You may ’ave read a bullet laid us…
Where Horse and Rider each can tr… It takes a fence and more than a f… For the one will do what the other… and blown, And when it is done, they can live…
We were taken from the ore-bed and… We were melted in the furnace and… We were cast and wrought and hamme… We were cut and filed and tooled a… Some water, coal, and oil is all w…