(Wordsworth)
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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…
I go to concert, party, ball— What profit is in these? I sit alone against the wall And strive to look at ease. The incense that is mine by right
Hurree Chunder Mookerjee, pride o… Owner of a native press, “Barrish… Waited on the Government with a c… Sabres by the bucketful, rifles by… Then the Indian Government winked…
FROST upon small rain—the ebony—… Reflecting lamps as a pool shows g… The sight suddenly emptied out of… Entering upon it sideways. II
THERE runs a road by Merrow Dow… A grassy track today it is— An hour out of Guildford Town, Above the river Wey it is. Here, when they heard the horse—be…
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…
YOU mustn’t groom an Arab with a… You hadn’t ought to tension—spring… You couldn’t push a brumby fifty m… And drop him in a boiler—shed to c… I’ll sling you through six countie…
THE DARK eleventh hour Draws on and sees us sold To every evil power We fought against of old. Rebellion, rapine, hate,
A GREAT and glorious thing it i… To learn, for seven years or so, The Lord knows what of that and t… Ere reckoned fit to face the foe — The flying bullet down the Pass,
WHAT is the song the children si… When doorway lilacs bloom in Spri… And the Schools are loosed, and t… That were deadly earnest when Ear… Hear them chattering, shrill and h…
TAKE up the White Man’s burden– Send forth the best ye breed— Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives’ need; To wait in heavy harness
DIM dawn behind the tamarisks—the… As the women in the village grind… And the parrots seek the riverside… That the Day, the staring Eastern… Oh the white dust on the highway!…
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,
This is our lot if we live so long… Then we outlive the impatient year… And because we know we have breath… We shall assume that we are alive,… We shall not acknowledge that old…
ROSES red and roses white Plucked I for my love’s delight. She would none of all my posies— Bade me gather her blue roses. Half the world I wandered through…