(Wordsworth)
#English #Victorians #XIXCentury #XXCentury
WE’ RE foot—slog—slog—slog—slogg… Foot—foot—foot—foot—sloggin’ over… (Boots—boots—boots—boots—movin’ up… There’s no discharge in the war! Seven—six—eleven—five—nine—an’—twe…
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,
Our sister sayeth such and such, And we must bow to her behests. Our sister toileth overmuch, Our little maid that hath no breas… A field untilled, a web unwove,
As I was spittin’ into the Ditch… I seed a man on a man-o’-war got u… 'E was scrapin’ the paint from off… Sez 'e, “I’m a Jolly —'Er Majest… Now ‘is work begins by Gawd knows…
IMPRIMIS he was “broke.” There… His Regiment and, later, took to… Then, having lost the balance of h… “Went Fantee”—joined the people o… Turned three parts Mussulman and…
I’VE NEVER sailed the Amazon, I’ve never reached Brazil; But the Don and Magdalena, They can go there when they will! Yes, weekly from Southampton,
VALOUR and Innocence Have latterly gone hence To certain death by certain shame… Envy—ah! even to tears!— The fortune of their years
“HAVE you news of my boy Jack?” Not this tide. “When d’you think that he’ll come… Not with this wind blowing, and th… “Has any one else had word of him?…
It was an artless Bandar, and he… And much I wondered how he lived,… And many many other things, till,… I slept the sleep of idleness and… He said: “O man of many clothes!…
Me that 'ave been what I’ve been… Me that 'ave gone where I’ve gone… Me that 'ave seen what I’ve seen… 'Ow can I ever take on With awful old England again,
“THIS is the State above the La… The State exists for the State al… [This is a gland at the back of th… And an answering lump by the colla… Some die shouting in gas or fire;
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…
YOU mustn’t groom an Arab with a… You hadn’t ought to tension—spring… You couldn’t push a brumby fifty m… And drop him in a boiler—shed to c… I’ll sling you through six countie…
TO—DAY, across our fathers’ grav… The astonished years reveal The remnant of that desperate host Which cleansed our East with stee… Hail and farewell! We greet you h…
I HAD some friends—but I dreamed… Who used to dance with lanterns ro… Green and white lanterns that wave… But I haven’t seen a Firefly sinc… I had some friends—their crowns we…