#English #Victorians #XIXCentury #XXCentury
Of all the trees that grow so fair… Old England to adorn, Greater are none beneath the Sun, Than Oak, and Ash, and Thorn. Sing Oak, and Ash, and Thorn, go…
WE’VE got the cholerer in camp—i… We’re dyin’ in the wilderness the… It’s before us, an’ be’ind us, an’… An’ the doctor’s just reported we’… Oh, strike your camp an’ go, the…
WHO recalls the twilight and the… (Violet peaks uplifted through the… And the clink of iron teacups and… And the faces of the Sisters with… (Now and not hereafter, while the…
YOUTH that trafficked long with… And to second life returns, Squanders little time or breath On his fellow—man’s concerns. Earnèd peace is all he asks
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
’TWIXT my house and thy house th… In thy house or my house is half t… By my house and thy house hangs al… On thy house and my house lies hal… For my house and thy house no help…
I KEEP six honest serving—men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and… And How and Where and Who. I send them over land and sea,
BUY my English posies Kent and Surrey may Violets of the Undercliff Wet with Channel spray; Cowslips from a Devon combe
Through the Plagues of Egyp’ we w… Gettin’ down an’ shovin’ in the su… An’ you might 'ave called us dirty… An’ you might ‘ave ’eard us talkin… But the Captain ‘ad ’is jacket, a…
ONE moment past our bodies cast No shadow on the plain; Now clear and black they stride ou… And we run home again. In morning—hush, each rock and bus…
“NOW this is the price of a stirr… The kneeling doctor said. And syne he bade them take him up, For he saw that the man was dead. They took him up, and they laid hi…
AFTER the sack of the City, whe… In the years that the Lights were… Low on the borders of Britain, th… Between the Cliff and the Forest… Stubborn all were his people, a st…
It was an August evening and, in… I paid a round of visits in the li… When, presently, my Waler saw, an… A Commissariat elephant careering… I couldn’t see he driver, and acro…
BY THE well, where the bullocks… Silent and blind and slow— By the field where the young corn… In the face of the sultry skies, They have heard, as the dull Eart…
WINDS of the World, give answer… And what should they know of Engl… The poor little street—bred people… They are lifting their heads in th… Must we borrow a clout from the B…