Madras (Poem by Rudyard Kipling) Madras By Rudyard Kipling Clive kissed me on the mouth and eyes and brow, Wonderful kisses, so that I became Crowned above Queens — a withered b…
On Robert Riddel (Poem by Robert Burns) On Robert Riddel By Robert Burns To Riddel, much-lamented man, This ivied cot was dear; Reader, dost value matchless worth? This ivied cot r…
The League and Covenant (Poem by Robert Burns) The League and Covenant By Robert Burns The solemn League and Covenant Cost Scotland blood-cost Scotland tears; But it sealed freedom’s sacred c…
A Stick of Incense (Poem by William Butler Yeats) A Stick of Incense By William Butler Yeats Whence did all that fury come? From empty tomb or Virgin womb? Saint Joseph thought the world would melt …
On R.A., Esq. (Poem by Robert Burns) On R.A., Esq. By Robert Burns Know thou, O stranger to the fame Of this much lov’d, much honour’d name! (For none that knew him need be told) A warm…
Epitaph (Poem by Robert Burns) Epitaph By Robert Burns Here brewer Gabriel’s fire’s extinct, And empty all his barrels: He’s blest — if, as he brew’d, he drink — In uprigh…
Lines on Mrs. Kemble (Poem by Robert Burns) Lines on Mrs. Kemble By Robert Burns Kemble, thou cur’st my unbelief Of Moses and his rod; At Yarico’s sweet notes of grief The rock with te…
Halifax (Poem by Rudyard Kipling) Halifax By Rudyard Kipling Into the mist my guardian prows put forth, Behind the mist my virgin ramparts lie, The Warden of the Honour of the No…
Auckland (Poem by Rudyard Kipling) Auckland By Rudyard Kipling Last, loneliest, loveliest, exquisite, apart — On us, on us the unswerving season smiles, Who wonder 'mid our f…