#English #Victorians #XIXCentury #XXCentury
Excellent herbs had our fathers of… Excellent herbs to ease their pain… Alexanders and Marigold, Eyebright, Orris, and Elecampane— Basil, Rocket, Valerian, Rue,
BUY my English posies Kent and Surrey may Violets of the Undercliff Wet with Channel spray; Cowslips from a Devon combe
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
Ah! What avails the classic bent And what the cultured word, Against the undoctored incident That actually occurred? And what is Art whereto we press
UNTIL thy feet have trod the Ro… Advise not wayside folk, Nor till thy back has borne the L… Break in upon the broke. Chase not with undesired largesse
TO THE legion of the lost ones,… To my brethren in their sorrow ove… Sings a gentleman of England clea… And a trooper of the Empress, if… Yea, a trooper of the forces who h…
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…
I turned—Heaven knows we women tu… To broken reeds, mistaken so for p… That shame forbids confession—a ha… (The wrong one, said the agent aft… And so flung clean across your En…
“THIS is the State above the La… The State exists for the State al… [This is a gland at the back of th… And an answering lump by the colla… Some die shouting in gas or fire;
WHEN the ‘arf—made recruity goes… ’E acts like a babe an’ 'e drinks… An’ ‘e wonders because ’e is frequ… Ere 'e’s fit for to serve as a sol… Serve, serve, serve as a soldier,
IN THE Neolithic Age savage war… For food and fame and woolly horse… I was singer to my clan in that di… And I sang of all we fought and f… Yea, I sang as now I sing, when t…
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…
Here is nothing new nor aught unpr… “Many feet have worn it and the ro… ”It is the King—the King we schoo… (Trumpets in the marshes-in the ey… “Here is neither haste, nor hate,…
"GO WASH thyself in Jordan —go,… Nay, not for any Prophet will I p… For the banks of curious Jordan a… Commanded and embellished and patr… There rise her timeless capitals o…
Now this is the next tale, and it tells how the Camel got his big hump. In the beginning of years, when the world was so new and all, and the Animals were just beginning to work for Ma...