#English #Victorians #XIXCentury #XXCentury
THE DARK eleventh hour Draws on and sees us sold To every evil power We fought against of old. Rebellion, rapine, hate,
O WOE is me for the merry life I led beyond the Bar, And a treble woe for my winsome wi… That weeps at Shalimar. They have taken away my long jezai…
STRANGERS drawn from the ends… I was Lord of the Inca race, and… Under the stars beyond our stars w… Hotly we stormed Valhalla, a mill… Ever 'neath high Valhalla Hall th…
I HAVE a dream —a dreadful dream A dream that is never done, I watch a man go out of his mind, And he is My Mother’s Son. They pushed him into a Mental Hom…
HEH! Walk her round. Heave, ah h… Over, snatch her over, there, and… Loose all sail, and brace your yar… Ready jib to pay her off and heave… Well, ah fare you well; we can sta…
Once a pair of savages found a str… (One-piecee stick –pidgin —two pie… Straddle-um-paddle-um-push –um off… That way Foleign Debbil-boat bega… But before, and before, and ever s…
IF I were hanged on the highest h… Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! I know whose love would follow me… Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! If I were drowned in the deepest…
TO—DAY, across our fathers’ grav… The astonished years reveal The remnant of that desperate host Which cleansed our East with stee… Hail and farewell! We greet you h…
IF the Led Striker call it a str… Or the papers call it a war, They know not much what I am like… Nor what he is, my Avatar. Through many roads, by me possesse…
MY GARDEN blazes brightly with… And the köil sings above it, in th… From the creeper—covered trellis c… And the blue jay screams and flutt… But the rose has lost its fragranc…
There are whose study is of smells… And to attentive schools rehearse How something mixed with something… Makes something worse. Some cultivate in broths impure
WE were all one heart and one rac… When the Abbey trumpets blew. For a moment’s breathing—space We had forgotten you. Now you return to your honoured pl…
IN A land that the sand overlays—… A multitude ended their days whose… Till they grew drunk and were smit… And of these is a story written: b… When the wine stirred in their hea…
Now we are come to our Kingdom, And the State is thus and thus; Our legions wait at the Palace ga… Little it profits us. Now we are come to our Kingdom!
WITH those that bred, with those… He had no part whose hands were cl… But subtle, strong, and stubborn,… To a lost cause, and knew the gift… Later shall rise a people, sane an…