Works. [Seven Seas Ed.], Volume 23Doubleday, Page, 1915 |
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ASHLAR Baron beat Bees bide blow break Brookland brother Brown Bess Builth Cæsar Celt CHAPTER HEADINGS Chil continueth crown Cuckoo danced Dane-geld dark dead down-low dream Dutchmen know Earth England hath taken eyes fall fathers of old Fear Ferdinand fight gate give Gods green lanterns guns hand hast hear heart Heaven Helena hump Hy-Brasil Iron-Cold Jubal and Tubal Jungle Karela keep kill King land look looking-glass Lord Mahadeo maid master Mithras morning never night o'er Old Mother Laidinwool Pack PICT poor honest putrid offal Queen Queen's peace Rimini road Rome Runnymede sail sake Saxon ship Shiv sing sleep SONG soul stand stars strength sword Tabaqui talk tell thee things Thorn thou Throne travels the fastest trees Tubal Cain Twix Valhalla Via Aurelia wait wake wall Weald wind Wolf woods
Popular passages
Page 145 - IF you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too...
Page 184 - I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When, and How and Where and Who.
Page 96 - T"*HE Stranger within my gate, He may be true or kind, But he does not talk my talk — I cannot feel his mind. I see the face and the eyes and the mouth, But not the soul behind. The men of my own stock They may do ill or well, But they tell the lies I am wonted to, They are used to the lies I tell. And we do not need interpreters When we go to buy and sell.
Page 40 - Gold is for the mistress — silver for the maid! Copper for the craftsman cunning at his trade.' 'Good!' said the Baron, sitting in his hall, 'But Iron — Cold Iron — is master of them alH' So he made rebellion 'gainst the King his liege, Camped before his citadel and summoned it to siege — 'Nay!
Page 245 - Five and twenty ponies Trotting through the dark Brandy for the Parson, 'Baccy for the Clerk; Laces for a lady, letters for a spy, Watch the wall, my darling, while the Gentlemen go by!
Page 60 - Down to Gehenna or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone.
Page 3 - CITIES AND THRONES AND POWERS" "A CENTURION OF THE THIRTIETH"— PUCK OF POOR'S HILL LJITIES and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time's eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die...
Page 251 - But remember, please, the Law by which we live, We are not built to comprehend a lie, We can neither love nor pity nor forgive, If you make a slip in handling us you die!
Page 123 - OUR FATHERS OF OLD" Excellent herbs had our fathers of old — Excellent herbs to ease their pain — Alexanders and Marigold, Eyebright, Orris, and Elecampane — Basil, Rocket, Valerian, Rue, (Almost singing themselves they run) Vervain, Dittany, Call-me-to-you — Cowslip, Melilot, Rose of the Sun. Anything green that grew out of the mould Was an excellent herb to our fathers of old.
Page 9 - See you our little mill that clacks, So busy by the brook? She has ground her corn and paid her tax Ever since Domesday Book. See you our stilly woods of oak, And the dread ditch beside? O that was where the Saxons broke, On the day that Harold died.