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The Mother's Son
The Mother's Son I have a dream -- a dreadful dream -- A dream that is never done. I watch a man go out of his mind, And he is My Mother's Son. They pushed him into a Mental Hom…
The Morning Song of the Jungle
The Morning Song of the Jungle One moment past our bodies cast No shadow on the plain; Now clear and black they stride our track, And we run home again. In morning-hush, each ro…
The Moon of Other Days
The Moon of Other Days Beneath the deep veranda's shade, When bats begin to fly, I sit me down and watch -- alas! -- Another evening die. Blood-red behind the sere ferash She ri…
The Miracle of Purun Bhagat
The Miracle of Purun Bhagat The night we felt the earth would move We stole and plucked him by the hand, Because we loved him with the love That knows but cannot understand. And…
The Merchantmen
The Merchantmen King Solomon drew merchantmen, Because of his desire For peacocks, apes, and ivory, From Tarshish unto Tyre: With cedars out of Lebanon Which Hiram rafted down,…
The Mary Gloster
The Mary Gloster I've paid for your sickest fancies; I've humoured your crackedest whim -- Dick, it's your daddy, dying; you've got to listen to him! Good for a fortnight, am I…
The Master-Cook
The Master-Cook With us there rade a Maister-Cook that came From the Rochelle which is neere Angouleme. Littel hee was, but rounder than a topp, And his small berd hadde dipped…
The Lowestoft Boat
The Lowestoft Boat East Coast Patrols of the War, - In Lowestoft a boat was laid, Mark well what I do say! And she was built for the herring-trade, But she has gone a-rovin', a-…
The Mare's Nest
The Mare's Nest Jane Austen Beecher Stowe de Rouse Was good beyond all earthly need; But, on the other hand, her spouse Was very, very bad indeed. He smoked cigars, called churc…
The Love Song of Har Dyal
The Love Song of Har Dyal Alone upon the housetops to the North I turn and watch the lightnings in the sky-- The glamour of thy footsteps in the North. Come back to me, Beloved,…
The Long Trail
The Long Trail There's a whisper down the field where the year has shot her yield, And the ricks stand grey to the sun, Singing: "Over then, come over, for the bee has quit the…
The Light That Failed
The Light That Failed 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…
The Legends Of Evil
The Legends Of Evil This is the sorrowful story Told when the twilight fails And the monkeys walk together Holding their neighbours' tails: -- "Our fathers lived in the forest,…
The Legend of Mirth
The Legend of Mirth The Four Archangels, so the legends tell, Raphael, Gabriel, Michael, Azrael, Being first of those to whom the Power was shown Stood first of all the Host bef…
The Law of the Jungle
The Law of the Jungle Now this is the Law of the Jungle -- as old and as true as the sky; And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die.…
The Last of the Light Brigade
The Last of the Light Brigade There were thirty million English who talked of England's might, There were twenty broken troopers who lacked a bed for the night. They had neither…
The Last Shuttee
The Last Shuttee Not many years ago a King died in one of the Rajpoot States. His wives, disregarding the orders of the English against Suttee, would have broken out of the pala…
The Last Lap
The Last Lap How do we know, by the bank-high river, Where the mired and sulky oxen wait, And it looks as though we might wait for ever, How do we know that the floods abate? Th…
The Last Chantey
The Last Chantey "~And there was no more sea.~" Thus said The Lord in the Vault above the Cherubim Calling to the Angels and the Souls in their degree: "Lo! Earth has passed awa…
The Ladies
The Ladies I've taken my fun where I've found it; I've rogued an' I've ranged in my time; I've 'ad my pickin' o' sweet'earts, An' four o' the lot was prime. One was an 'arf-cast…
The Land
The Land When Julius Fabricius, Sub-Prefect of the Weald, In the days of Diocletian owned our Lower River-field, He called to him Hobdenius-a Briton of the Clay, Saying: "What a…
The Kingdom
The Kingdom Now we are come to our Kingdom, And the State is thus and thus; Our legions wait at the Palace gate— Little it profits us. Now we are come to our Kingdom! Now we are…
The King's Job
The King's Job The Tudor Monarchy Once on a time was a King anxious to understand What was the wisest thing a man could do for his land. Most of his population hurried to answer…
The Juggler's Song
The Juggler's Song When the drums begin to beat Down the street, When the poles are fetched and guyed, When the tight-rope's stretched and tied, When the dance-girls make salaam…