So we settled it all when the storm was done As comfy as comfy could be; And I was to wait in the barn, my dears, Because I was only three; And Teddy would run to the rainbow's foot...
There was a strife 'twixt man and maid Oh that was at the birth of time! But what befall 'twixt man and maid,, Oh that's beyond the grip of rhyme. 'Twas, 'Sweet, I must not bide with you,'...
Cities and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time's eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die: But, as new buds put forth To glad new men, Out of the spent and unconsidered Earth...
he Injian Ocean sets an' smiles So sof', so bright, so bloomin' blue; There aren't a wave for miles an' miles Excep' the jiggle from the screw. The ship is swep', the day is done,...
Old Horn to All Atlantic said: (A-hay O! To me O!) "Now where did Frankie learn his trade? For he ran me down with a three-reef mains'I." (All round the Horn!)
Not with an outcry to Allah nor any complaining He answered his name at the muster and stood to the chaining. When the twin anklets were nipped on the leg-bars that held them,...
Aa'or - Cahors? Aggy Chell - get ahead abby-nay - Not now arder - And a half aasvogel - Vulture babul - Acacia bairagi - Wandering holy man band karo - locked up Bandar - Monkey...
I am the Most Wise Baviaan, saying in Most wise tones, "Let us melt into the landscape,just us two by our lones." Peoplehavecome,inacarriage,calling. But Mummy is there.......
This Uninhabited Island Is near Cape Gardafui; But it's hot, too hot, of Suez For the likes of you and me Ever to go in a P. & O. To call on the Cake Parsee.
When the cabin port-holes are dark and green Because of the seas outside When the ship goes wop (with a wiggle between) And steward falls into the soup-tureen, And trunks begin to slide;...
As the dawn was breaking the Sambhur belled, Once, twice and again! And a doe leaped up, and a doe leaped up From the pond in the wood where the wild deer sup. This I, scouting alone, beheld,...
A stone's throw out on either hand From that well-ordered road we tread, And all the world is wild and strange; Churel and ghoul and Djinn and sprite Shall bear us company to-night,...
When, foot to wheel and back to wind, The helmsman dare not look behind, But hears beyond his compass-light, The blind bow thunder through the night, And, like a harpstring ere it snaps,...
In the Neolithic Age savage warfare did I wage For food and fame and woolly horses' pelt. I was singer to my clan in that dim, red Dawn of Man, And I sang of all we fought and feared and felt....
Jubal sang of the Wrath of God And the curse of thistle and thorn, But Tubal got him a pointed rod, And scrabbled the earth for corn. Old, old as that early mould, Young as the sprouting grain,...