#English #Victorians #XIXCentury #XXCentury
AS our mother the Frigate, bepain… Made play for her bully the Ship… So we, her bold daughters by iron… Accost and decoy to our masters’ d… Now, pray you, consider what toils…
Across a world where all men grieve And grieving strive the more, The great days range like tides and leave Our dead on every shore. Heavy the load we undergo, And our own hands prepare...
THE ‘eathen in ’is blindness bows… 'E don’t obey no orders unless the… ‘E keeps ’is side—arms awful: ‘e l… An’ then comes up the Regiment an… All along o’ dirtiness, all along…
WHEN Earth’s last picture is pai… When the oldest colours have faded… We shall rest, and, faith, we shal… Till the Master of All Good Work… And those that were good shall be…
I have done mostly what most men d… And pushed it out of my mind; But I can’t forget, if I wanted t… Four—Feet trotting behind. Day after day, the whole day throu…
A Snider squibbed in the jungle, Somebody laughed and fled, And the men of the First Shikaris Picked up their Subaltern dead, With a big blue mark in his forehe…
OUR Lord Who did the Ox command To kneel to Judah’s King, He binds His frost upon the land, To ripen it for spring— To ripen it for spring, good sirs,
A tinker out of Bedford, A vagrant oft in quod, A private under Fairfax, A minister of God— Two hundred years and thirty
HE So long as 'twuz me alone An’ there wasn’t no other chaps, I was praoud as a King on 'is thr… Happier tu, per’aps.
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…
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…
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…
God of our fathers, known of old, Lord of our far—flung battle—line, Beneath whose awful Hand we hold Dominion over palm and pine— Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet…
Pagett, M.P., was a liar, and a f… He spoke of the heat of India as… Came on a four months’ visit, to “… And I got him to sign an agreemen… March came in with the koil. Page…
This is the ballad of Boh Da Tho… Erst a Pretender to Theebaw’s thr… Who harried the district of Alalo… How he met with his fate and the… At the hand of Harendra Mukerji,