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Rudyard Kipling's Verse
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Kipling, Rudyard (1865-1936)
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PRELUDE (To “Departmental Ditties”)
A GENERAL SUMMARY
ARMY HEADQUARTERS
STUDY OF AN ELEVATION, IN INDIAN INK
DELILAH
A LEGEND OF THE FOREIGN OFFICE
THE STORY OF URIAH
THE POST THAT FITTED
A CODE OF MORALS
PUBLIC WASTE
WHAT HAPPENED
THE MAN WHO COULD WRITE
PINK DOMINOES
MUNICIPAL
THE LAST DEPARTMENT
MY RIVAL
TO THE UNKNOWN GODDESS
THE RUPAIYAT OF OMAR KAL'VIN
PAGETT, M.P.
LA NUIT BLANCHE
THE LOVERS' LITANY
A BALLADE OF BURIAL
THE OVERLAND MAIL
DIVIDED DESTINIES
THE MASQUE OF PLENTY
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Semi-Chorus
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Chorus of the Crystallised Facts
THE MARE'S NEST
THE BALLAD OF FISHER'S BOARDING-HOUSE
POSSIBILITIES
ARITHMETIC ON THE FRONTIER
THE SONG OF THE WOMEN
THE BETROTHED
A BALLADE OF JAKKO HILL
THE PLEA OF THE SIMLA DANCERS
“AS THE BELL CLINKS”
CHRISTMAS IN INDIA
THE GRAVE OF THE HUNDRED HEAD
AN OLD SONG
CERTAIN MAXIMS OF HAFIZ
THE MOON OF OTHER DAYS
THE FALL OF JOCK GILLESPIE
WHAT THE PEOPLE SAID
THE UNDERTAKER'S HORSE
ONE VICEROY RESIGNS
THE GALLEY-SLAVE
A TALE OF TWO CITIES
IN SPRINGTIME
GIFFEN'S DEBT
TWO MONTHS
L'ENVOI (to Departmental Ditties)
THE FIRES
DEDICATION FROM “BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS”
TO THE TRUE ROMANCE
SESTINA OF THE TRAMP-ROYAL
THE MIRACLES
SONG OF THE WISE CHILDREN
ZION
BUDDHA AT KAMAKURA
THE GREEK NATIONAL ANTHEM
THE SEA-WIFE
THE BROKEN MEN
GETHSEMANE
THE SONG OF THE BANJO
THE SPIES' MARCH
THE EXPLORER
THE PRO-CONSULS
THE RUNNERS Indian Frontier, 1904
THE SEA AND THE HILLS
ANCHOR SONG
THE RHYME OF THE THREE SEALERS
McANDREW'S HYMN
MULHOLLAND'S CONTRACT
THE “MARY GLOSTER”
THE BALLAD OF THE “BOLIVAR”
THE BALLAD OF THE “CLAMPHERDOWN”
CRUISERS
THE VERDICTS
THE DESTROYERS
WHITE HORSES
A SONG IN STORM
THE DERELICT
THE MERCHANTMEN
THE SONG OF DIEGO VALDEZ
THE SECOND VOYAGE
THE OLDEST SONG
THE LINER SHE'S A LADY
THE FIRST CHANTEY
THE LAST CHANTEY
THE EXILES' LINE
THE LONG TRAIL
IN THE MATTER OF ONE COMPASS
AVE IMPERATRIX!
A SONG OF THE ENGLISH
[Fair is our lot—O goodly is our heritage!]
THE COASTWISE LIGHTS
THE SONG OF THE DEAD
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II.
II
THE DEEP-SEA CABLES
THE SONG OF THE SONS
THE SONG OF THE CITIES
ENGLAND'S ANSWER
THE HOUSES
TO THE CITY OF BOMBAY
THE GIPSY TRAIL
OUR LADY OF THE SNOWS
AN AMERICAN
THE CHOICE
THE YOUNG QUEEN
MELBOURNE SHRINE OF REMEMBRANCE
THE FLOWERS
THE NATIVE-BORN
THE LOST LEGION
THE IRISH GUARDS
PHARAOH AND THE SERGEANT
THE LAST OF THE LIGHT BRIGADE
KITCHENER'S SCHOOL
LORD ROBERTS
BRIDGE-GUARD IN THE KARROO
SOUTH AFRICA
THE BURIAL
RHODES MEMORIAL, TABLE MOUNTAIN
THINGS AND THE MAN
THE SETTLER
SUSSEX
MY BOY JACK
A NATIVITY
DIRGE OF DEAD SISTERS
THE VAMPIRE
THE ENGLISH FLAG
THE DEAD KING
WHEN EARTH'S LAST PICTURE IS PAINTED
“CLEARED”
THE BALLAD OF THE RED EARL
ULSTER
THE BALLAD OF EAST AND WEST
THE LAST SUTTEE
GENERAL JOUBERT
GEHAZI
THE BALLAD OF THE KING'S MERCY
THE BALLAD OF THE KING'S JEST
WITH SCINDIA TO DELHI
THE DOVE OF DACCA
THE BALLAD OF BOH DA THONE
THE SACRIFICE OF ER-HEB
THE LAMENT OF THE BORDER CATTLE THIEF
THE FEET OF THE YOUNG MEN
A BOY SCOUTS' PATROL SONG
THE TRUCE OF THE BEAR
RUSSIA TO THE PACIFISTS
THE PEACE OF DIVES
A SONG OF THE WHITE MEN
THE ROWERS
AN IMPERIAL RESCRIPT
A DEATH-BED
ET DONA FERENTES
THE HOLY WAR
FRANCE
“BEFORE A MIDNIGHT BREAKS IN STORM”
THE BELL BUOY
THE OLD ISSUE
THE LESSON
MESOPOTAMIA
THE ISLANDERS
THE VETERANS
THE DYKES
THE DECLARATION OF LONDON
THE WAGE-SLAVES
THE SONG OF THE LATHES
RIMMON
THE SONG OF THE OLD GUARD
“THE CITY OF BRASS”
THE HYÆNAS
THE REFORMERS
THE COVENANT
THE OLD MEN
THE OUTLAWS
THE WHITE MAN'S BURDEN
HYMN BEFORE ACTION
A SONG AT COCK-CROW
THE QUESTION
RECESSIONAL
“FOR ALL WE HAVE AND ARE”
THE THREE-DECKER
THE RHYME OF THE THREE CAPTAINS
THE CONUNDRUM OF THE WORKSHOPS
EVARRA AND HIS GODS
THE BENEFACTORS
IN THE NEOLITHIC AGE
NATURAL THEOLOGY
THE STORY OF UNG
THE CRAFTSMAN
SAMUEL PEPYS
THE BONFIRES
“WHEN 'OMER SMOTE 'IS BLOOMIN' LYRE”
THE FILES
THE VIRGINITY
THE LEGENDS OF EVIL
PAN IN VERMONT
VERSES ON GAMES
TOMLINSON
EN-DOR
THE FEMALE OF THE SPECIES
A RECANTATION (TO LYDE OF THE MUSIC HALLS)
THE EXPLANATION
A PILGRIM'S WAY
THE ANSWER
MARY'S SON
THE GIFT OF THE SEA
THE KING
THE LAST RHYME OF TRUE THOMAS
THE SONS OF MARTHA
HYMN OF BREAKING STRAIN
THE PALACE
EPITAPHS OF THE WAR
“EQUALITY OF SACRIFICE”
A SERVANT
A SON
AN ONLY SON
EX-CLERK
THE WONDER
HINDU SEPOY IN FRANCE
THE COWARD
SHOCK
A GRAVE NEAR CAIRO
PELICANS IN THE WILDERNESS
TWO CANADIAN MEMORIALS
THE FAVOUR
THE BEGINNER
R.A.F. (AGED EIGHTEEN)
THE REFINED MAN
NATIVE WATER-CARRIER (M.E.F.)
BOMBED IN LONDON
THE SLEEPY SENTINEL
BATTERIES OUT OF AMMUNITION
COMMON FORM
A DEAD STATESMAN
THE REBEL
THE OBEDIENT
A DRIFTER OFF TARENTUM
DESTROYERS IN COLLISION
CONVOY ESCORT
UNKNOWN FEMALE CORPSE
RAPED AND REVENGED
SALONIKAN GRAVE
THE BRIDEGROOM
V.A.D. (MEDITERRANEAN)
ACTORS
JOURNALISTS
JUSTICE
SEVEN WATCHMEN
TO THOMAS ATKINS
“BOBS”
DANNY DEEVER
TOMMY
“FUZZY-WUZZY”
SOLDIER, SOLDIER
SCREW-GUNS
CELLS
GUNGA DIN
OONTS
LOOT
“SNARLEYOW”
THE WIDOW AT WINDSOR
BELTS
THE YOUNG BRITISH SOLDIER
MANDALAY
TROOPIN'
THE WIDOW'S PARTY
FORD O' KABUL RIVER
GENTLEMEN-RANKERS
ROUTE MARCHIN'
PRIVATE ORTHERIS'S SONG
SHILLIN' A DAY
“BACK TO THE ARMY AGAIN”
“BIRDS OF PREY” MARCH
“SOLDIER AN' SAILOR TOO”
SAPPERS
THAT DAY
“THE MEN THAT FOUGHT AT MINDEN”
CHOLERA CAMP
THE LADIES
BILL 'AWKINS
THE MOTHER-LODGE
“FOLLOW ME 'OME”
THE SERGEANT'S WEDDIN'
THE JACKET
THE 'EATHEN
THE SHUT-EYE SENTRY
“MARY, PITY WOMEN!”
“FOR TO ADMIRE”
“THE SERVICE MAN”
THE ABSENT-MINDED BEGGAR
CHANT-PAGAN
M. I.
COLUMNS
THE PARTING OF THE COLUMNS
TWO KOPJES
THE INSTRUCTOR
BOOTS
THE MARRIED MAN
LICHTENBERG
STELLENBOSCH
HALF-BALLADE OF WATERVAL
PIET
“WILFUL-MISSING”
UBIQUE
THE RETURN
“CITIES AND THRONES AND POWERS”
THE RECALL
PUCK'S SONG
THE WAY THROUGH THE WOODS
A THREE-PART SONG
THE RUN OF THE DOWNS
BROOKLAND ROAD
THE SACK OF THE GODS
THE KINGDOM
TARRANT MOSS
SIR RICHARD'S SONG
A TREE SONG
THE FLOODS
CUCKOO SONG
A CHARM
THE PRAIRIE
JOBSON'S AMEN
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Lispeth.
The Other Man.
His Wedded Wife.
Pig.
In the Pride of his Youth.
Thrown Away.
Tods' Amendment.
By Word of Mouth.
In Error.
The Conversion of Aurelian McGoggin.
The Rout of the White Hussars.
The Bronckhorst Divorce Case.
In the House of Suddhoo.
False Dawn.
Cupid's Arrows.
A Bank Fraud.
The Rescue of Pluffles.
His Chance in Life.
Consequences.
The Taking of Lungtungpen.
A Germ-Destroyer.
Kidnapped.
The Broken-Link Handicap.
The Bisara of Pooree.
COLD IRON
A SONG OF KABIR
A CAROL
“MY NEW-CUT ASHLAR”
“NON NOBIS DOMINE!”
EDDI'S SERVICE
OUR LADY OF THE SACKCLOTH
THE LEGEND OF MIRTH
SHIV AND THE GRASSHOPPER
THE FAIRIES' SIEGE
THE QUEST
THE CHILDREN
A SONG TO MITHRAS
THE NEW KNIGHTHOOD
THE WASTER
OUTSONG IN THE JUNGLE
HARP SONG OF THE DANE WOMEN
THE THOUSANDTH MAN
THE WINNERS
A ST. HELENA LULLABY
CHIL'S SONG
THE CAPTIVE
THE PUZZLER
THE PRESS
HADRAMAUTI
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[There was a strife 'twixt man and maid—]
[Beware the man who's crossed in love]
[Your patience, Sirs. The Devil took me up]
[Now it is not good for the Christian's health to hustle the Aryan brown]
[There is pleasure in the wet, wet clay]
[We meet in an evil land]
[This I saw when the rites were done]
[Beat off in our last fight were we?]
[Because I sought it far from men]
[We be the Gods of the East—]
[Will they gape for the husks that ye proffer]
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[So we settled it all when the storm was done]
[Then we brought the lances down—then the trumpets blew—]
[The wolf-cub at even lay hid in the corn]
[“I have a thousand men,” said he]
[“If I have taken the common clay]
[The lark will make her hymn to God]
[There were three friends that buried the fourth]
[Yet at the last, ere our spearmen had found him]
GALLIO'S SONG
THE BEES AND THE FLIES
ROAD-SONG OF THE BANDAR-LOG
THE FABULISTS
“OUR FATHERS ALSO”
A BRITISH-ROMAN SONG
A PICT SONG
THE STRANGER
“RIMINI”
“POOR HONEST MEN”
“WHEN THE GREAT ARK”
PROPHETS AT HOME
JUBAL AND TUBAL CAIN
THE VOORTREKKER
A SCHOOL SONG
THE LAW OF THE JUNGLE
“A SERVANT WHEN HE REIGNETH”
MACDONOUGH'S SONG
THE FLIGHT
“OUR FATHERS OF OLD”
DOCTORS
THE HERITAGE
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The Goat.
The Oxen.
The Elephant.
Pigs and Buffaloes.
[The beasts are very wise]
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The Return of Imray.
Without Benefit of Clergy.
The Head of the District.
The Man Who Was.
At the End of the Passage.
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[Unto whose use the pregnant suns are poised]
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My Lord the Elephant.
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The Ship that Found Herself.
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[All the world over, nursing their scars]
[Put forth to watch, unschooled, alone]
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[Farewell and adieu to you, Harwich Ladies]
SONG OF THE FIFTH RIVER
THE CHILDREN'S SONG
PARADE-SONG OF THE CAMP-ANIMALS
ELEPHANTS OF THE GUN-TEAMS
GUN-BULLOCKS
CAVALRY HORSES
SCREW-GUN MULES
COMMISSARIAT CAMELS
ALL THE BEASTS TOGETHER
IF—
GREAT-HEART
THE PRODIGAL SON
CAIN AND ABEL
THE NECESSITARIAN
REBIRTH
THE JESTER
PHILADELPHIA
A SONG OF TRAVEL
THE TWO-SIDED MAN
HORACE, Bk. V. Ode 3
“LUKANNON”
AN ASTROLOGER'S SONG
“THE POWER OF THE DOG”
THE RABBI'S SONG
THE BEE-BOY'S SONG
THE SONG OF SEVEN CITIES
THE RETURN OF THE CHILDREN
MERROW DOWN
TO JAMES WHITCOMB RILEY
OLD MOTHER LAIDINWOOL
THE LAND
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How the Whale Got his Throat.
How the Camel Got his Hump.
How the Leopard Got his Spots.
The Elephant's Child.
The Sing-Song of Old Man Kangaroo.
The Beginning of the Armadilloes.
The Crab that Played with the Sea.
The Cat that Walked by Himself.
How the Rhinoceros got his Skin.
The Butterfly that Stamped.
THE LOOKING-GLASS
THE QUEEN'S MEN
A PAGEANT OF ELIZABETH
THE CITY OF SLEEP
“HELEN ALL ALONE”
THE WIDOWER
THE PRAYER OF MIRIAM COHEN
THE COMFORTERS
THE SONG OF THE LITTLE HUNTER
GOW'S WATCH
Act II. Scene 2
Act IV. Scene 4
Act V. Scene 3
THE WISHING-CAPS
“BY THE HOOF OF THE WILD GOAT”
SONG OF THE RED WAR-BOAT
MINE SWEEPERS
MORNING SONG IN THE JUNGLE
BLUE ROSES
A RIPPLE SONG
BUTTERFLIES
MY LADY'S LAW
THE NURSING SISTER
THE LOVE SONG OF HAR DYAL
A DEDICATION (To “Soldiers Three”)
MOTHER O' MINE
THE ONLY SON
MOWGLI'S SONG AGAINST PEOPLE
ROMULUS AND REMUS
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Mowgli's Brothers.
Kaa's Hunting.
How Fear Came.
“Tiger-Tiger!”
Letting in the Jungle.
The King's Ankus.
Red Dog.
The Spring Running.
Rikki-Tikki-Tavi.
The White Seal.
The White Seal.
Toomai of the Elephants.
Quiquern.
The Undertakers.
The Miracle of Purun Bhagat.
THE EGG-SHELL
“THE TRADE”
“TIN FISH”
THE KING'S TASK
POSEIDON'S LAW
THE LOWESTOFT BOAT
A TRUTHFUL SONG
A SMUGGLER'S SONG
KING HENRY VII. AND THE SHIPWRIGHTS
THE WET LITANY
THE BALLAD OF MINEPIT SHAW
HERIOT'S FORD
FRANKIE'S TRADE
THE JUGGLER'S SONG
THE NORTH SEA PATROL
THORKILD'S SONG
“ANGUTIVAUN TAINA”
HUNTING-SONG OF THE SEEONEE PACK
SONG OF THE MEN'S SIDE
THE RUNES ON WELAND'S SWORD
DARZEE'S CHAUNT
SONG OF THE GALLEY-SLAVES
THE FOUR ANGELS
THE BEGINNINGS
THE PRAYER
THE MUSE AMONG THE MOTORS 1900–1930
SEPULCHRAL
ARTERIAL
CARMEN CIRCULARE
THE ADVERTISEMENT
THE JUSTICE'S TALE
THE CONSOLATIONS OF MEMORY (Circa 1904)
THE FOUR POINTS
TO A LADY, PERSUADING HER TO A CAR
THE PROGRESS OF THE SPARK (XVIth Circuit)
THE BRAGGART
“WHEN THE JOURNEY WAS INTENDED TO THE CITY”
TO MOTORISTS
THE TOUR
THE IDIOT BOY
THE LANDAU
CONTRADICTIONS
FASTNESS
THE BEGINNER
LADY GERALDINE'S HARDSHIP
THE BOTHER
THE DYING CHAUFFEUR
THE INVENTOR
THE BALLAD OF THE CARS
A CHILD'S GARDEN
THE MORAL
THE MARRÈD DRIVES OF WINDSOR
PREFACE BY SAMUEL JOHNSON
I.
Act I
II.
Act II
III.
Act III
SONGS WRITTEN FOR C. R. L. FLETCHER'S “A HISTORY OF ENGLAND”
THE RIVER'S TALE
THE ROMAN CENTURION'S SONG
THE PIRATES IN ENGLAND
DANE-GELD
THE ANVIL
NORMAN AND SAXON
THE REEDS OF RUNNYMEDE
MY FATHER'S CHAIR
THE DAWN WIND
THE KING'S JOB
WITH DRAKE IN THE TROPICS
“TOGETHER”
JAMES I.
EDGEHILL FIGHT
THE DUTCH IN THE MEDWAY
“BROWN BESS”
THE AMERICAN REBELLION
THE FRENCH WARS
BIG STEAMERS
THE SECRET OF THE MACHINES
THE BELLS AND QUEEN VICTORIA
THE GLORY OF THE GARDEN
VERSES FROM “LAND AND SEA TALES” 1919–1923
A PREFACE
THE JUNK AND THE DHOW
THE MASTER-COOK
THE HOUR OF THE ANGEL
THE LAST LAP
A DEPARTURE
THE NURSES
A COUNTING-OUT SONG
VERSES FROM “DEBITS AND CREDITS” 1919–1926
THE CHANGELINGS
THE VINEYARD
“BANQUET NIGHT”
TO THE COMPANIONS
THE CENTAURS
“LATE CAME THE GOD”
RAHERE
THE SURVIVAL
JANE'S MARRIAGE
THE PORTENT
ALNASCHAR AND THE OXEN
GIPSY VANS
THE BIRTHRIGHT
A LEGEND OF TRUTH
WE AND THEY
UNTIMELY
THE LAST ODE: NOV. 27, 8 B.C.
THE BURDEN
THE SUPPORTS
VERSES FROM “LIMITS AND RENEWALS”
GERTRUDE'S PRAYER
DINAH IN HEAVEN
FOUR-FEET
THE TOTEM
THE DISCIPLE
THE PLAYMATE
NAAMAN'S SONG
THE MOTHER'S SON
THE COINER
AKBAR'S BRIDGE
AT HIS EXECUTION
THE THRESHOLD
NEIGHBOURS
THE EXPERT
THE CURÉ
SONG OF SEVENTY HORSES
HYMN TO PHYSICAL PAIN
THE PENALTY
AZRAEL'S COUNT
MISCELLANEOUS VERSE
THE GODS OF THE COPYBOOK HEADINGS
THE SCHOLARS
THE CLERKS AND THE BELLS
A RECTOR'S MEMORY
LOLLIUS
A SONG OF FRENCH ROADS
CHARTRES WINDOWS
LONDON STONE
THE KING'S PILGRIMAGE
A SONG IN THE DESERT
BRAZILIAN VERSES
THE FRIENDS
A SONG OF BANANAS
SONG OF THE DYNAMO
“SUCH AS IN SHIPS”
“POISON OF ASPS”
THE OPEN DOOR
TWO RACES
THE GLORIES
“VERY MANY PEOPLE”
SUPPLICATION OF THE BLACK ABERDEEN
“HIS APOLOGIES”
HYMN OF THE TRIUMPHANT AIRMAN
FOX-HUNTING
MEMORIES
THE ENGLISH WAY
THE STORM CONE
THE KING AND THE SEA
THE APPEAL
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