My garden blazes brightly with the rose-bush and the peach, …
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In Error
They burnt a corpse upon the sand– The light shone …
Read Poem »If
If you can keep your head when all about you …
Read Poem »I Keep Six Honest…
I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I …
Read Poem »Hymn Before Action
The earth is full of anger, The seas are dark …
Read Poem »Hunting Song of the Seeonee Pack
As the dawn was breaking the Sambhur belled Once, twice, …
Read Poem »How the Whale Got His Throat
When the cabin port-holes are dark and green Because of …
Read Poem »How the Rhinoceros got His Skin
This Uninhabited Island Is near Cape Gardafui; But it’s hot–too …
Read Poem »How the Leopard Got His Spots
I am the Most Wise Baviaan, saying in Most wise …
Read Poem »How the Camel Got His Hump
The Camel’s hump is an ugly lump Which well you …
Read Poem »How It All Began
So we settled it all when the storm was done …
Read Poem »How Fear Came
The stream is shrunk–the pool is dry, And we be …
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