Rudyard Kipling: Selected Poems
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‘Let us now praise famous men’ 86
Look, you have cast out Love! What Gods are these 12
Lord, Thou hast made this world below the shadow of a dream 59
Man dies too soon, beside his works half-planned 182
Me that ’ave been what I’ve been 113
Much I owe to the Lands that grew 90
My girl she give me the go onest 20
My name, my speech, my self I had forgot 169
My son was killed while laughing at some jest. I would I 168
No doubt but ye are the People – your throne is above the King’s 95
Nothing in life has been made by man for man’s using 187
Now the New Year reviving old desires 42
Now this is the Law of the Jungle – as old and as true as the sky 51
On land and sea I strove with anxious care 171
On the first hour of my first day 171
Once, after long-drawn revel at The Mermaid 163
Once on a time, the ancient legends tell 185
One used and butchered me: another spied 174
Open the old cigar-box, get me a Cuba stout 13
Or ever the battered liners sank 183
Our England is a garden that is full of stately views 147
Pity not! The Army gave 169
Prometheus brought down fire to men 171
Prophets have honour all over the earth 121
Pussy can sit by the fire and sing 101
Queen Bess was Harry’s daughter. (Stand forward partners all!) 132
Smells are surer than sounds or sights 116
Soldier, soldier come from the wars 22
Sudden the desert changes 91
Take of English earth as much 129
Take up the White Man’s burden 82
That which is marred at birth Time shall not mend 191
The beasts are very wise 38
The blown sand heaps on me, that none may learn 170
The boats of Newhaven and Folkstone and Dover 146
The Camel’s hump is an ugly lump 99
The Celt in all his variants from Builth to Ballyhoo 127
The ’eathen in ’is blindness bows down to wood an’ stone 70
The eldest son bestrides him 2
The Garden called Gethsemane 163
The General ’eard the firin’ on the flank 117
The Gods that are wiser than Learning 189
The Injian Ocean sets an’ smiles 49
The men that fought at Minden, they was rookies in their time 67
The merry clerks of Oxenford they stretch themselves at ease 178
The road to En-Dor is easy to tread 161
The ships destroy us above 150
The Sons of Mary seldom bother, for they have inherited that good part 123
The stream is shrunk – the pool is dry 69
There is sorrow enough in the natural way 126
They bear, in place of classic names 151
They shall not return to us, the resolute, the young 154
They shut the road through the woods 133
This is the midnight – let no star 196
This man in his own country prayed we know not to what Powers 169
Though all the Dead were all forgot 189
Thus said the Lord in the Vault above the Cherubim 47
Too late, alas! the song 6
Twenty bridges from Tower to Kew 142
Unless you come of the gipsy stock 184
Walpole talks of ‘a man and his price’ 5
We are very slightly changed 1
We counterfeited once for your disport 175
We, giving all, gained all 170
We have served our day 175
We know the Rocket’s upward whizz 197
We were all one heart and one race 139
We were together since the War began 168
We’ve sent our little Cupids all ashore 105
‘What are the bugles blowin’ for?’ said Files-on-Parade 17
‘What have we ever done to bear this grudge?’ 7
What is a woman that you forsake her 119
What is the moral? Who rides may read 16
When all the world would keep a matter hid 158
When Earth’s last picture is painted and the tubes are twisted and dried 44
When I left Rome for Lalage’s sake 120
When ’Omer smote ’is bloomin’ lyre 76
When the ’arf-made recruity goes out to the East 29
When the flush of a new-born sun fell first on Eden’s green and gold 31
When the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride 140
When you come to London Town 181
When you’ve shouted ‘Rule Britannia,’ when you’ve sung ‘God Save the Queen’ 88
Where have you been this while away 40
Where’s the lamp that Hero lit 125
Who recalls the twilight and the ranged tents in order 111
Why gird at Lollius if he care 180
Winds of the World, give answer! They are whimpering to and fro 35
You may talk o’ gin and beer 25
Your jar of Virginny 135
Youth that trafficked long with Death 195