(Mat. Prior)
#English #Victorians #XIXCentury #XXCentury
IF IT be pleasant to look on, st… Does not the Young Man try Its t… If She be pleasant to look on, wh… “Lo! She is pleasant to look on,… II.
Thy face is far from this our war, Our call and counter-cry, I shall not find Thee quick and k… Nor know Thee till I die. Enough for me in dreams to see
WE KNOW the Rocket’s upward whi… We know the Boom before the Bust. We know the whistling Wail which… The Stick returning to the Dust. We know how much to take on trust
Life’s all getting and giving, I’ve only myself to give. What shall I do for a living? I’ve only one life to live. End it? I’ll not find another.
NO DOUBT but ye are the People… Whoso speaks in your presence must… Bowing the head in worship, bendin… Bringing the word well smoothen—su… Fenced by your careful fathers, ri…
ALL day long to the judgment—seat The crazed Provincials drew — All day long at their ruler’s feet Howled for the blood of the Jew. Insurrection with one accord
UNTIL thy feet have trod the Ro… Advise not wayside folk, Nor till thy back has borne the L… Break in upon the broke. Chase not with undesired largesse
You may talk o’ gin and beer When you’re quartered safe out ’er… An’ you’re sent to penny-fights an… But when it comes to slaughter You will do your work on water,
SEVEN Watchmen sitting in a tow… Watching what had come upon mankin… Showed the Man the Glory and the… And bade him shape the Kingdom to… ‘All things on Earth your will sh…
GOD gave all men all earth to lov… But since our hearts are small, Ordained for each one spot should… Belovèd over all; That, as He watched Creation’s bi…
WHO recalls the twilight and the… (Violet peaks uplifted through the… And the clink of iron teacups and… And the faces of the Sisters with… (Now and not hereafter, while the…
Once on a time was a King anxious… What was the wisest thing a man co… Most of his population hurried to… Each with a long oration, each wit… They interrupted his meals —he was…
When I was a King and a Mason —a… I cleared me ground for a Palace… I decreed and dug down to my level… I came on the wreck of a Palace s… There was no worth in the fashion…
“ONCE in so often,” King Solomo… Watching his quarrymen drill the s… “We will club our garlic and wine… And banquet together beneath my T… And all the Brethren shall come t…
THERE’S a pasture in a valley w… And a Herd lies down and ruminate… Where the pheasant rules the nooni… And the war—cries of our world die… Here I cast aside the burden that…
