#English #Victorians #XIXCentury #XXCentury
MASTER, this is Thy Servant. H… He is mainly Head and Tummy. His… But Thou has forgiven his uglines… Art Thou content with Thy Servan… Master, behold a Sinner! He hath…
OUR King went forth on pilgrimag… His prayers and vows to pay To them that saved our heritage And cast their own away. And there was little show of pride…
OLD Horn to All Atlantic said: (A—hay O! To me O!) Now where did Frankie learn his t… For he ran me down with a three—re… (All round the Horn!)
The boats of Newhaven and Folkest… To Dieppe and Boulogne and to Ca… And in each of those runs there is… Where the English and French have… If the ships that were sunk could…
Who gives him the Bath? “I,” said the wet, Rank-Jungle-sweat, “I’ll give him the Bath!” Who’ll sing the psalms?
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,
THE GULL shall whistle in his w… He shall fulfil God’s utmost will… And he shall see old planets chang… And give the gale his seaworn sail… Strong lust of gear shall drive hi…
SHE did not know that she was dea… But, when the pang was o’er, Sat down to wait her Master’s tre… Upon the Golden Floor, With ears full—cock and anxious ey…
THE ‘eathen in ’is blindness bows… 'E don’t obey no orders unless the… ‘E keeps ’is side—arms awful: ‘e l… An’ then comes up the Regiment an… All along o’ dirtiness, all along…
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…
After His Realms and States were… To bare their hearts to the King… Tendering themselves in homage and… The Tide Wave up the Channel spo… To all those eager, exultant folk:…
OPEN the old cigar—box, get me a… For things are running crossways,… We quarrelled about Havanas—we fo… And I knew she is exacting, and s… Open the old cigar—box—let me cons…
A GREAT and glorious thing it i… To learn, for seven years or so, The Lord knows what of that and t… Ere reckoned fit to face the foe — The flying bullet down the Pass,
Beyond the path of the outmost sun… Further than ever comet flared or… Live such as fought and sailed and… They are purged of pride because t… They sit at wine with the Maidens…
IN the days of lace—ruffles, peru… Brown Bess was a partner whom non… An out—spoken, flinty—lipped, braz… With a habit of looking men straig… At Blenheim and Ramillies fops wo…