The Works of Rudyard Kipling ...Century Company, 1898 |
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... song of two words once every minute . From the land that song resembles the bellowing of a brazen bull ; but off - shore they understand , and the steamers grunt gratefully in answer . Fenwick , who was on duty one night , lent me a ...
... song of two words once every minute . From the land that song resembles the bellowing of a brazen bull ; but off - shore they understand , and the steamers grunt gratefully in answer . Fenwick , who was on duty one night , lent me a ...
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... song with a chorus , and it said something like this . ' The Infant dropped into the true barrack - room twang : ' Theebaw , the Burma king , did a very foolish thing , When ' e mustered ' ostile forces in ar - rai , ' E little thought ...
... song with a chorus , and it said something like this . ' The Infant dropped into the true barrack - room twang : ' Theebaw , the Burma king , did a very foolish thing , When ' e mustered ' ostile forces in ar - rai , ' E little thought ...
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... song if they could find a sufficiency of kissing . Whereby I understood that Eustace Cleever , decorator and colourman in words , was blaspheming his own Art , and would be sorry for this in the morning . MY LORD THE ELEPHANT . ' Less ...
... song if they could find a sufficiency of kissing . Whereby I understood that Eustace Cleever , decorator and colourman in words , was blaspheming his own Art , and would be sorry for this in the morning . MY LORD THE ELEPHANT . ' Less ...
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... songs ( ' e died on the way down ) began to give a nigger lecture on the be'ind ends of elephants , an ' Dewcy , ' e tried to keep ' is face for a minute , but , Lord , you couldn't do such when Kite was playin ' the fool an ' askin ...
... songs ( ' e died on the way down ) began to give a nigger lecture on the be'ind ends of elephants , an ' Dewcy , ' e tried to keep ' is face for a minute , but , Lord , you couldn't do such when Kite was playin ' the fool an ' askin ...
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... song : - ' Hadst thou not called it Love , I had said it were a drawn sword , But since thou hast spoken , I believe and — I die . ' It is in my heart that there will remain in our land a few Sahibs undesirous of returning to Eng- land ...
... song : - ' Hadst thou not called it Love , I had said it were a drawn sword , But since thou hast spoken , I believe and — I die . ' It is in my heart that there will remain in our land a few Sahibs undesirous of returning to Eng- land ...
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Abdul Gafur acrost ain't answered Badalia Bai-Jove-Judson began bein bloomin boat Boileau Bull buoys called captain Challong Charlie children of men Cleever dead deck dinghy docthor Dowse elephint eyes face fight fire flat-iron Flores Strait fwhat galley Girl Gisborne give Grish Chunder Guadala gunboat Gunnison Street hand head heard heart Herodsfoot Hicksey honour Jenny Judson Keller kicked killed knew Lascar Loo's mother laughed light looked Love-o'-Women M'Phee mahout Mowgli Mulvaney musth never night nilghai niver orf'cer Ortheris Ouless Peshawur policeman Rathmines remember rifle round rukh Sahib ship shouted Skrælings song sorr speak tale talk Tangi tell Terence thee There's thin things thou thought tide told took turned Twas veranda village voice walk whin wint woman women words
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Página 326 - The year's at the spring And day's at the morn; Morning's at seven; The hill-side's dew-pearled; The lark's on the wing; The snail's on the thorn: God's in his heaven — All's right with the world!
Página 114 - Spanish sailors with bearded lips, And the beauty and mystery of the ships, And the magic of the sea. And the voice of that wayward song Is singing and saying still: 'A boy's will is the wind's will, And the thoughts of youth are long, long thoughts.
Página 121 - Sooner than the word was spoken Flew the yeoman's shaft; Einar's bow in twain was broken, Einar only laughed. "What was that?" said Olaf, standing On the quarter-deck. "Something heard I like the stranding Of a shattered wreck.
Página 114 - ... somewhere in the sea, you know"; and, delighted with my paltry five pounds, had gone out to buy the notions of other men, that these might teach him how to write. I had the consolation of knowing that this notion was mine by right of purchase, and I thought that I could make something of it. When next he came to me he was drunk— royally drunk on many poets for the first time revealed to him. His pupils were dilated, his words tumbled over each other, and he wrapped himself in quotations. Most...
Página 106 - OR ever the knightly years were gone With the old world to the grave, I was a King in Babylon And you were a Christian Slave.
Página 400 - ... as an Arab Of thy beloved. Cling with life to the maid; But when the surprise, First vague shadow of surmise Flits across her bosom young, Of a joy apart from thee, Free be she, fancy-free; Nor thou detain her vesture's hem, Nor the palest rose she flung From her summer diadem. Though thou loved her as thyself, As a self of purer clay, Though her parting dims the day, Stealing grace from all alive; Heartily know, When half-gods go. The gods arrive.
Página i - Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
Página 289 - The hot sun had dried it to a dusky gold-beater-skin film, cracked lozenge-wise by the heat, and as the wind rose each lozenge, rising a little, curled up at the edges as if it were a dumb tongue. Then a heavier gust blew all away down wind in grains of dark coloured dust. It was too hot to stand in the sunshine before breakfast. The men were all in barracks talking the matter over. A knot of soldiers...
Página v - Thy face is far from this our war — Our call and counter-cry. I shall not find Thee quick and kind, Nor know Thee till I die. Enough for me in dreams to see And touch Thy garments' hem — Thy feet have trod so near to God I may not follow them.
Página 1 - twixt us and Thee, dread Lord, A veil 'twixt us and Thee : Lest we should hear too clear, too clear, And unto madness see ! Miriam Cohen.