(Wordsworth)
#English #Victorians #XIXCentury #XXCentury
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
Lo! What is this that I make—sudd… This that my clutch in the crowd p… Forward and onward I sprang when… And a cab like martagon opes and… And someone is taking my name, and…
A FOOL there was and he made his… A Fool as you and I!) To a rag and a bone and a hank of… (We called her the woman who did n… But the fool he called her his lad…
When Rome was rotten-ripe to her… And the sceptre passed from her ha… The pestilent Picts leaped over t… To harry the English land. The little dark men of the mountai…
A WANDERER from East to West, From Mandalay to Matheran, By itch of loaferdom possess, I scour the plains of Hindustan. Dismissed the fragrant, gariwân, (…
NOT in the thick of the fight, Not in the press of the odds, Do the heroes come to their height… Or we know the demi—gods. That stands over till peace.
There was a strife ‘twixt man and… Oh, that was at the birth of time! But what befell ’twixt man and mai… Oh, that’s beyond the grip of rhym… 'Twas “Sweet, I must not bide wit…
This is the ballad of Ahmed Shah Dealer in tats in the Sudder Baza… By the gate that leads to the Gol… How he was done by a youth from M… Ahmed Shah was a man of peace—
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,
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,
FOR all we have and are, For all our children’s fate, Stand up and take the war. The Hun is at the gate! Our world has passed away
Only two African kopjes, Only the cart-tracks that wind Empty and open between 'em, Only the Transvaal behind; Only an Aldershot column
IF you wake at midnight, and hear… Don’t go drawing back the blind, o… Them that ask no questions isn’t t… Watch the wall my darling while th… Five and twenty ponies,
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
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…