#EnglishWriters
FRIEND, thou beholdest the ligh… To decree which rock-ridge shall r… Which crown among palms shall go d… While the floods drown the sere wa… First for my eyes, above all, he m…
OR ever the battered liners sank With their passengers to the dark, I was head of a Walworth Bank, And you were a grocer’s clerk. I was a dealer in stocks and share…
Moralists we, From over the sea, From the land where philosophers p… From the land that produced no Ka… But many Cants with a C.
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.
There was a strife ‘twixt man and… Oh, that was at the birth of time! But what befell ’twixt man and mai… Oh, that’s beyond the grip of rhym… 'Twas “Sweet, I must not bide wit…
When the cabin port-holes are dark… Because of the seas outside; When the ship goes wop (with a wig… And the steward falls into the sou… And trunks begin to slide;
I do not look for holy saints to g… Or male and female devilkins to le… If these are added I rejoice - if… So long as I have leave and choic… For as we come and as we go (and d…
So here’s your Empire. No more wi… Good. We’ll clear the Aides and khitmat… (You’ll know that fat old fellow w… He keeps the Name Book, talks in…
Unto whose use the pregnant suns a… With idiot moons and stars retract… Creep thou between —thy coming’s a… Heaven hath her high, as Earth he… Heir to these tumults, this affrig…
LAND of our Birth, we pledge to… Our love and toil in the years to… When we are grown and take our pla… As men and women with our race. Father in Heaven who lovest all,
Will you conquer my heart with you… Shall I fall to your hand as a vi… Have I met you and passed you alr… Shall I meet you next session at… Does the P. and O. bear you to me…
OH GALLANT was our galley from… To her figurehead of silver and he… The leg—bar chafed the ankle and w… But no galley on the waters with o… Our bulkheads bulged with cotton a…
DAWN OFF the Foreland– the you… Jumbled and short and steep— Black in the hollows and bright wh… Awkward water to sweep. “Mines reported in the fairway,
IF you wake at midnight, and hear… Don’t go drawing back the blind, o… Them that ask no questions isn’t t… Watch the wall my darling while th… Five and twenty ponies,
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