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Peace with Honour
by Sydney C. GrierWhat I have told them, of course. Do you know, Dick, I sometimes feel as though I had no business to be so well and rich and happy among so many sufferers. It seems as though they must hate me, or, at any rate, feel that I can’t sympathise with them. And then, when you were shut up in Fort Rahmat-Ullah, and uncle and I were so fearfully anxious, I ..
Dreams and Images - An Anthology of Catholic Poets
by Bryce WaltonThis is not a collection of devotional poems. It is not an attempt to rival Orby Shipley’s admirable “Carmina Mariana” or any other similar anthology. What I have tried to do is to bring together the poems in English that I like best that were written by Catholics since the middle of the Nineteenth Century. There are in this book poems religious in..
A Gloucestershire Lad at Home and Abroad
by F. W. HarveyMost of these poems were written at the Front, and appeared in the Fifth Gloucester Gazette—the first paper ever published from the trenches. The author was then a Lance-Corporal in the 5th Battalion of the Gloucestershire Regiment, and as such gained the Distinguished Conduct Medal in August, 1915. The poems are written by a soldier and reflect a ..
His Excellency's English Governess
by Sydney C. GrierIt was Presentation-day at the University of London. The date was somewhere in the latter half of the present century,—not this year, nor last year, nor the year before that, when you, dear reader, or your brother or cousin, may have graced the scene in cap and gown—but so long ago that the graduates and undergraduates of to-day were still in the n..
The Collected Works of William Hazlitt, Vol. 06 (of 12)
by William HazlittThe first edition was published in two 8vo volumes, the first volume in 1821 with the following title-page: ‘Table-Talk; or, Original Essays. By William Hazlitt. London: John Warren, Old Bond-Street 1821’; the second volume in 1822 with the following title-page: ‘Table-Talk; or, Original Essays. By William Hazlitt. Vol. II. London: Printed for Henr..
The Bride of Huitzil—An Aztec Legend
by Hervey AllenThe Bride of Huitzil—An Aztec Legend is a collection of poems by Hervey Allen.In Anahuac there reigned a king Some fifty summers old, The bloody darling of his gods, Who sent him luck and gold And captives from a thousand fights, And victory in each war; No mer..
Wampum and Old Gold
by Hervey AllenWampum and Old Gold: a Poem collection by Hervey Allen.You who made meWith first ecstasyWhen I was sown,And lovely things at nightI will not writeAnd burdened moan,While veiny labyrinths with mystery ranTill time and blood were lifeAnd I began—By holier things than God,Or any other shibboleth of man,Dead woman wan,By the thin, silver scream th..
His Royal Nibs
by Onoto WatannaBully Bill had “herding” down to a science, and “them doegies,” as he called them, went in a long line before him like an army in review. Had events followed their natural course, the cattle should have filed out of the opened gate into the roadway, and across the road to the south field, where, duly, they would distribute themselves among the humm..