Category: Poetry
Nearly all the verses that now make their first appearance in book form are reprinted from _Punch_, by kind permission of Messrs. Bradbury and Agnew. The rest I have taken from two little books that were published in Bombay during my last (and, I suppose, final) tour of servic...
Nearly all the verses that now make their first appearance in book form are reprinted from _Punch_, by kind permission of Messrs. Bradbury and Agnew. The rest I have taken from...
3. Chapter 3'Our Referee has fall'n, has fall'n. She came, The woman with her ash, and lo the wound! But we will make a bandage for the limb, And swathe it, heel to knee, with splints and w...
2. Chapter 2To him that reads with careless eyes My present theme affords But little scope for enterprise In buttering one's lords: Fines, he would urge, have always bulked Largely to Those...
4. Chapter 4My bosom's lord sits lightly on my breast; The East grows dim; and every hour I stuck to it Imparts a richer brightness to the West, Good luck to it!