(Mat. Prior)
#English #Victorians #XIXCentury #XXCentury
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
The Babe was laid in the Manger Between the gentle kine — All safe from cold and danger — "But it was not so with mine, (With mine! With mine!)
WHEN all the world would keep a… Since Truth is seldom friend to a… Men write in fable, as old Æsop di… Jesting at that which none will na… And this they needs must do, or it…
EYES aloft, over dangerous place… The children follow the butterflie… And, in the sweat of their upturne… Slash with a net at the empty skie… So it goes they fall amid brambles…
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,
OUR galley chafes against the Qu… The full tide calls us from the be… While far away across the sea Is set the isle that we would reac… The haven where we fain would be.
Much I owe to the Lands that grew… More to the Lives that fed— But most to Allah Who gave me two Separate sides to my head. Much I reflect on the Good and th…
HARRY, our King in England, fr… And comen to Hamull on the Hoke i… For there lay the Mary of the Tow… And he would discover, certaynely,… He told not none of his setting fo…
The wreath of banquet overnight la… Our hands and scarfs were saffron-… When we went forth to Paniput to… Ere we came back from Paniput and… Thrice thirty thousand men were we…
THESE were my companions going f… (For Chil! Look you, for Chil!) Now come I to whistle them the en… (Chil! Vanguards of Chil!) Word they gave me overhead of quar…
THIS fell when dinner—time was d… ’Twixt the first an’ the second ru… That oor mon Jock cam’ hame again To his rooms ahist the Club. An’ syne he laughed, an’ syne he s…
That which is marred at birth Tim… Nor water out of bitter well make… All evil thing returneth at the en… Or elseway walketh in our blood un… Whereby the more is sorrow in cert…
WHEN the Himalayan peasant meets… He shouts to scare the monster, wh… But the she—bear thus accosted ren… For the female of the species is m… When Nag the basking cobra hears…
AS ADAM lay a—dreaming beneath… The Angel of the Earth came down,… But Adam did not need it, Nor the plough he would not speed… Singing: —"Earth and Water, Air…
BROKE to every known mischance,… By the light sane joy of life, the… Furious in luxury, merciless in to… Terrible with strength that draws… Strictest judge of her own worth,…