Mulholland's Contract Lyrics

'Have you news of my boy Jack? ' Not this tide. 'When d'you think that he'll come back? ' Not with this wind blowing, and this tide. 'Has anyone else had word of him? ' Not th...Read Full Lyrics

I will let loose against you the fleet-footed vines-- I will call in the Jungle to stamp out your lines! The roofs shall fade before it, The house-beams shall fall; And the Kar...Read Full Lyrics

Parliaments of Henry III., 1265 There are four good legs to my Father's Chair-- Priests and People and Lords and Crown. I sits on all of 'em fair and square, And that is re...Read Full Lyrics

The Law whereby my lady moves Was never Law to me, But 'tis enough that she approves Whatever Law it be. For in that Law, and by that Law My constant course I'll steer; Not...Read Full Lyrics

"Why is my District death-rate low?" Said Binks of Hezabad. "Well, drains, and sewage-outfalls are "My own peculiar fad. "I learnt a lesson once, It ran "Thus," quoth that mos...Read Full Lyrics

The man that is open of heart to his neighbour, And stops to consider his likes and dislikes, His blood shall be wholesome whatever his labour, His luck shall be with him whatev...Read Full Lyrics

My New-Cut ashlar takes the light Where crimson-blank the windows flare. By my own work before the night, Great Overseer, I make my prayer. If there be good in that I wrought...Read Full Lyrics

I go to concert, party, ball -- What profit is in these? I sit alone against the wall And strive to look at ease. The incense that is mine by right They burn before her shrine...Read Full Lyrics

Primitive I ate my fill of a whale that died And stranded after a month at sea. . . . There is a pain in my inside. Why have the Gods afflicted me? Ow! I am purged till I am...Read Full Lyrics

My son," said the Norman Baron, "I am dying, and you will be heir To all the broad acres in England that William gave me for my share When we conquered the Saxon at Hastings, and...Read Full Lyrics