(Wordsworth)
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AFTER the fight at Otterburn, "Before the ravens came, The Witch—wife rode across the fe… And spoke Earl Percy’s name. “Stand up—stand up, Northumberlan…
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…
0NCE, after long—drawn revel at… He to the overbearing Boanerges Jonson, uttered (if half of it wer… Blessed be the vintage!) Saying how, at an alehouse under…
HER HAND was still on her sword… She had not cast her harness of gr… High on her red-splashed charger,… Bright-eyed out of the battle, the… She came to the Old Queen’s prese…
'LESS you want your toes trod of… For the bullocks are walking two b… The byles are walking two by two, And the elephants bring the guns. Ho! Yuss!
JACK BARRETT went to Quetta Because they told him to. He left his wife at Simla On three-fourths his monthly screw… Jack Barrett died at Quetta
The wrecks dissolve above us; thei… Down to the dark, to the utter dar… There is no sound, no echo of soun… Or the great grey level plains of… Here in the womb of the world —her…
LOVE and Death once ceased their… At the Tavern of Man’s Life. Called for wine, and threw—alas!— Each his quiver on the grass. When the bout was o’er they found
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,
You must n’t swim till you’re six… Or your head will be sunk by your… And summer gales and Killer Whale… Are bad for baby seals. Are bad for baby seals, dear rat,
OUR Lord Who did the Ox command To kneel to Judah’s King, He binds His frost upon the land, To ripen it for spring— To ripen it for spring, good sirs,
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,
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!)
Excellent herbs had our fathers of… Excellent herbs to ease their pain… Alexanders and Marigold, Eyebright, Orris, and Elecampane— Basil, Rocket, Valerian, Rue,
WHERE run your colts at pasture? There hide your mares to breed? ’Mid bergs about the Ice—cap Or wove Sargasso weed; By chartless reef and channel,